A couple of the younger teams competing out West face off fir the first of four times this season on Wednesday, Nov. 14 when the Oklahoma City Thunder welcome the New Orleans Pelicans to Paycom Center in Oklahoma City.
The game is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. EST and will be broadcast on ESPN and ESPN Deportes. Fans looking to watch this NBA game can do so for free by using FuboTV and DirecTV Stream, which both offer a free trial or with SlingTV, which doesn’t offer a free trial but has promotional offers available.
The 9-2 Thunder have alternated wins and losses over their last five games and are coming off a 134-128 victory over the LA Clippers.
The pelicans have lost five straight and dropped to 3-8. They will be without CJ McCollum and Zion Williamson along with Herbert Jones and Jose Alvarado.
Who: New Orleans Pelicans vs. Oklahoma City Thunder
When: Wednesday, Nov. 13 at 7:30 p.m. EST
Where: Paycom Center in Oklahoma City
Stream: FuboTV (free trial); Sling; DirecTV Stream (free trial)
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“I made just a serious mental error there at the end,” Spoelstra said. “That’s on me. I feel horrible about it.”
The Heat had a 121-119 lead after Tyler Herro’s basket with 1.8 seconds remaining. But after a timeout, the Pistons ran a well-executed inbounds play, with Cade Cunningham throwing a lob pass that Jalen Duren slammed down.
Spoelstra quickly and angrily stormed onto the court and motioned for a timeout.
“There’s really no excuse for that,” Spoelstra said. “I’m 17 years in. We had talked about it in the huddle, I knew that we didn’t have anything. I just got emotional and reactive on that and I made just a horrendous mistake there at the end. It’s a shame.”
Spoelstra has won two NBA championships, was an assistant coach on the U.S. team that won an Olympic gold medal this summer, and was the overwhelming choice of executives who responded in the NBA.com GM Survey as the NBA’s best coach, earning 69% of the vote.
But he made a rookie mistake Tuesday that negated a brilliant performance by Herro, who scored 40 points and made 10 3-pointers.
“You don’t want it to come down to a mental error like that,” Spoelstra said, before a lengthy pause. “Yeah, you would have just liked to see this go double overtime. That’s the kind of game it felt like. It deserved to go double OT and not have somebody get in the way of that, and unfortunately even as a veteran coach I got in the way of that.”
The Associated Press contributed to this article
