NBA looking ahead: Warriors at Thunder

Stephen Curry dribbles past Avery Bradley during the second half of Golden State's 99-97 win Friday over the Boston Celtics.

By Ben Bolch

Jan. 11, 2014 12 AM PT

GOLDEN STATE AT OKLAHOMA CITY: Friday, 6:30 p.m. PST. TV: ESPN.

If you can tune in for only a minute of this game, make sure it’s the final 60 seconds. Both meetings between these teams have come down to the final play, with the Warriors pulling out a 116-115 victory Nov. 15 on Andre Iguodala’s fallaway jumper at the buzzer. Two weeks later it was Oklahoma City’s turn to beat the clock, with Russell Westbrook making a corner three-pointer with 0.1 of a second left in overtime to give the Thunder a 113-112 triumph. Westbrook has since been sidelined by another knee injury, probably leaving any Thunder heroics to Kevin Durant.

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

NBA looking ahead: Warriors at Thunder

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