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    Oklahoma City wins series 4-1

    Game 1: Monday, May 14th
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    Thunder119
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    Game 2: Wednesday, May 16th
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    Game 3: Friday, May 18th
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    Game 4: Saturday, May 19th
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    Game 5: Monday, May 21st
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    Lakers 75

    (41-25, 15-18 away)

    Thunder 77

    (47-19, 26-7 home)

    Coverage: TNT

    9:30 PM ET, May 16, 2012

    Chesapeake Energy Arena, Oklahoma City, OK

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    LAL 22 23 18 1275
    OKC 21 27 12 1777

    Top Performers

    Los Angeles: P. Gasol 14 Pts, 11 Reb, 3 Ast

    Oklahoma City: K. Durant 22 Pts, 7 Reb, 5 Ast, 2 Stl

    Late rally gives Thunder 2-0 series lead vs. Lakers

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      Kobe Bryant, Mike Brown, Steve Blake and Andrew Bynum talk about the Lakers blowing Game 2 to the Thunder.

    OKLAHOMA CITY -- Even down late, the Oklahoma City Thunder are showing that they are never out.

    Kevin Durant scored 22 points and rattled in the go-ahead basket on a baseline runner with 18 seconds left, and the Thunder scored the final nine points to rally for a 77-75 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals Wednesday night.

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    Oklahoma City trailed by seven with two minutes left before surging back with a series of defensive stops by its stars to claw back from that deficit in the closing stages of a game for the second time this postseason. The Thunder were also seven down with 2½ minutes left in Game 1 against defending NBA champion Dallas in the first round.

    "They won't quit. That's not in their DNA," coach Scott Brooks said. "They're not wired that way and if they were, they wouldn't be here. We're not going to win every game, but we're going to fight to the last second of the game and we did that tonight.

    "If we would have gotten down on ourselves with two minutes to go, we would have lost by 12 and we would go to L.A. 1-1."

    Instead, Oklahoma City takes a 2-0 lead into Game 3 on Friday night at Staples Center.

    Kobe Bryant and Andrew Bynum scored 20 points apiece for the Lakers, who came up empty on their last six possessions after Bynum's hook shot made it 75-68 with 2:09 remaining.