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Now, the top seed in the Eastern Conference is just a single game away from an early postseason exit.
Game 4: Boston at New York (Monday, 7:30 p.m. ET) Game 4: Minnesota at Golden State (Monday, 10 p.m. ET) The Thunder outlasted the Nuggets in one of the toughest shooting games either team will ever go through. The two teams combined for just 25 points in the first quarter and each team shot 25 percent or worse from three-point range.
The Cleveland Cavaliers are set to fight for their season on Tuesday night in Game 5 against the Indiana Pacers. Facing potential elimination, Darius Garland, Donovan Mitchell, and company will need to bring their best game of the series.
The Pacers don’t have some surplus of size on the Cavs. Aside from Turner and Siakam — the latter of whom doesn’t really use his size as an automatic extension for upped physicality — Mobley is bigger than Obi Toppin,
Indiana Pacers guard Bennedict Mathurin was ejected in the first quarter of Game 4 against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Sunday after hitting De’Andre Hunter in the chest with a closed fist.
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Evan Mobley has not been the defensive savant he was expected to be against the Indiana Pacers in the NBA playoffs.