How much do OKC Thunder care about capturing 1st seed for NBA playoffs?

Only ahead by two games with nine games left to go, the Oklahoma City Thunder can feel the San Antonio Spurs breathing down their neck for the first seed. We're seeing an arms race between the NBA's top two teams. Finally, one of them blinked.

The Thunder dropped a 119-109 loss to the Boston Celtics on Wednesday. That snapped their 12-game win streak. Meanwhile, the Spurs continued to be a win machine with a blowout over the Memphis Grizzlies.

Both teams have rarely lost since the NBA All-Star break. Feels like we're heading on a collision course where the Thunder and Spurs square off in the Western Conference Finals. In that scenario, whoever has homecourt advantage could determine the winner.

Here's what the Thunder said about the first seed and how much it matters to them with three weeks to go: Mark Daigneault "The home teams in the playoffs win 65% of the time, generally. So obviously, there's a homecourt advantage. You'd love to have homecourt advantage in as many series as possible.