It’s probably the biggest game of the postseason people with our defending NBA champs facing elimination this Thursday.

The 2008 NBA playoffs continue to get interesting by the minute. Especially after the Hornets, a team that was nowhere near playoff contention last year, took Game 5 with a 101-79 win last Tuesday, pushing the Spurs to a place where they’ve never been for quite a long time, on the brink of an early vacation.

You read it folks, the San Antonio Spurs will be facing elimination when their best-of-seven second round series with New Orleans resumes at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas on Thursday night for Game 6.

The New Orleans Hornets, thanks to All-Star forward David West, hold a commanding 3-2 series lead after winning at home in Game 5. They now have the opportunity to reach their first ever conference finals in franchise history with a win in San Antonio on Thursday. Surely, these guys can’t afford to drop another game to the Spurs and play a HUGE Game 7 against the defending champs right?

Of course, they’ll need the same kind of intensity from David West, who dropped not one, not two, but THREE career playoff-highs of 38 points, 14 rebounds and 5 blocked shots. Hell, the guy was so good offensively last Tuesday night that he made Tim Duncan look like Erick Dampier trying to play defense.

‘’Back in the locker room, right before we break huddle and come out to the game, we said, ‘No excuses,”’ David West recalled, referring to their preparation for Game 5.

‘’Regardless of how I was feeling, I just knew how important this game was for us as a basketball team. I knew I had to play well. I went out there with the intent to play well and things just went my way.'’

‘’We’ve proved all season long we’re one of the better teams in the NBA,'’ New Orleans Hornets head coach Byron Scott said. ‘’We had every reason after Games 3 and 4 to fold, but again, being with these guys, they’ve showed this type of resilience all season, so I’m not surprised.'’

If West, Chris Paul and the rest of the Hornets continue this Cinderella run they’ve been having in the playoffs, winning a huge closeout game against the defending NBA champions in San Antonio this Thursday night, then even he should be surprised.

Can the New Orleans Hornets win Game 6 and eliminate the San Antonio Spurs? Bodog Sportsbook has the odds.

New Orleans Hornets +7

San Antonio Spurs -7

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