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The marquee game Sunday night is the New York Knicks traveling to San Antonio to take on the Spurs at Frost Bank Center on ABC, and at 62-20 the San Antonio Spurs have been an absolute clinic all season — they come in as 5.5-point favorites and they have earned every bit of that number. The Knicks at 53-29 are no pushovers and they can absolutely get buckets, but stopping whatever San Antonio has been cooking up in the paint all year is a different ask entirely.

If New York is going to steal one on the road, somebody is going to have to have ice in his veins down the stretch because this Spurs squad does not take the L lightly.

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The night's marquee tips off in Seattle, where the surging Indiana Fever, buckets for days at 17-10, roll into Climate Pledge Arena as 9.5-point favorites over a Storm team that's taken the L way too often at 6-23. Keep an eye on Minnesota too, where the 22-6 Lynx are running teams out of the gym and should hand Toronto Tempo another lopsided beatdown by 15.5.

But the real coin-flip is in Dallas, where the Wings and Atlanta Dream are separated by a single point and both scrapping for playoff positioning down the stretch.

WNBA · The week ahead