The most productive series of the NBA Playoffs up to now gets a stand-alone spot Tuesday night because the San Antonio Spurs host the Oklahoma City Thunder in a pivotal Game 5.

Oklahoma City Thunder at San Antonio Spurs (-7, 199.5)

Series tied 2-2

Kevin Durant's huge game helped Oklahoma City knot the Western Conference semifinals and another stellar game from the All-Star forward could propel the third-seeded Thunder right into a 3-2 series lead. Durant aims to follow up a 41-point effort in Game 4 and lead his team to a victory in San Antonio for the second one time on this series when Oklahoma City visits the second-seeded Spurs on Tuesday.

Durant's output matched his career postseason high and he personally outscored San Antonio 17-16 within the final quarter of Sunday's 111-97 win. "IF IN CASE YOU HAVE a deep team, those 40-point nights - they do not come a lot," Durant said afterward. "I'm just looking to be consistent in what I do, and that i know in any given moment, I WILL BE ABLE TO burst off and get a couple of shots." Though the Spurs were ran out of the building within the final quarter of Game 4, concern was mild afterward with the pivotal Game 5 looming. "We were up for a fair a part of the sport. We couldn't close it," backup shooting guard Manu Ginobili told reporters. "So we have now to maintain fighting. Nobody expected to brush or have a very simple series against a team like them. We're going back home. We've homecourt advantage. Hopefully, we care for it."

TV: 8 p.m. ET, TNT

LINE HISTORY: The Spurs opened as 6.5-point favorites and by Monday evening the books reacted to a flury of Spurs action and bumped the road as much as -7. The entire opened at 200.5 and was dropped an entire point to 199.5. Take a look at your complete line history here.

MATCHUP CHART:

ABOUT THE THUNDER (61-30, 42-48-1 ATS, 44-47 O/U): Durant is averaging 27.8 points within the series - he opened with a subpar 16-point showing in Game 1 - and point guard Russell Westbrook is averaging 22 points and 10.5 assists despite shooting just 33.3 percent. The largest surprise have been the play of 22-year-old center Steven Adams, who has grabbed 10 or more rebounds in all of the four games while averaging 9.8 points and 12.3 rebounds in addition to annoying some of the Spurs. "He makes the opposite bigs hate him because he goes hard every time," backup center Enes Kanter told reporters. "He gets under their skin, and of their head."

ABOUT THE SPURS (73-17, 49-41 ATS, 38-50-2 O/U): San Antonio was awful while being outscored 34-16 within the final quarter of Game 4 and it was greater than Durant's greatness that decided the competition. "I FEEL down the stretch within the fourth quarter, we made too many mistakes," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich told reporters. "Just not remembering who we were guarding and the way we needed to play. But having said that, they out-toughed us, they battered us at the boards. On the same time, that they had any other players that joined in and made shots." Point guard Tony Parker was strong offensively for the second one straight game with 22 points - he's averaging 20.5 during the last two games after averaging just 4.5 over the primary two contests.

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TRENDS:

* Thunder are 8-2 ATS of their last 10 road games vs. a team with a house winning % of more than .600.* Spurs are 2-8 ATS of their last 10 vs. NBA Northwest.* Over is 7-2 in Thunder last 9 road games.* Under is 5-1 in Spurs last 6 home games.* Thunder are 6-2 ATS within the last 8 meetings.

CONSENSUS REPORT: As of Monday night, 60 percent of the Covers Consensus picks were at the Spurs to hide the spread and 67 percent of the wagers were at the Over. View full consensus data here.

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