Spurs vs Thunder Game 5: Which Bench Mob Will Score More Tonight?

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If you want to go deep in the NBA Playoffs, you’d better bring some quality contributors off the pine.

The Oklahoma City Thunder’s championship blueprint contains plenty of points from the bench, and prediction markets like Kalshi are offering markets on whether OKC’s bench will outscore the San Antonio Spurs’ reserves in Game 5 of the Western Conference Finals.

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Here are my best NBA picks and Spurs vs. Thunder predictions for this market on May 26.

Spurs vs. Thunder head-to-head bench points

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Pick: Thunder bench to outscore Spurs bench — Yes

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San Antonio bench

Key Reserves

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The San Antonio Spurs are much more dependent on their starting lineup, especially so in the Western Conference Finals.

The Spurs bench was logging more than 17 minutes per game for an average of 35.1 points in the first three rounds, but that has tightened to 13.3 minutes/23.5 points in the past four games.

De’Aaron Fox’s absence in the first two games of the series had San Antonio leaning hard into the starting five, but blowouts the past two games have left head coach Mitch Johnson to give his reserves more run. Game 4 finished with 30 points from the bench — a team-high for the series.

Game script for tonight calls for a closer contest, which means San Antonio leans on its starters.

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Guard Dylan Harper is the only reserve averaging more than 20 minutes per game in the postseason (25.7). He’s logged less floor time in the past two outings with Fox back while lumbering through an adductor injury.

The Spurs’ starters have outscored the Thunder’s starting five by almost 32 points over the first four games, and…

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