Welcome to a Tuesday edition of locked on NBA with the regular season winding down. We'll look at the best games of Monday and Tuesday night and how they impact a very tight playoff race that will come down to the wire.

Then we'll talk about Pat Riley's relationship with LeBron James and Ben Simmons'

thoughts on the Rookie of the Year race.

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My name is Wes Goldberg. I'm a

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NBA writer, who's covered the league at large for Espination and Fanside. You can follow me and my

writing on Twitter at Deaver Mill 13. Three teams in the Western Conference had a chance to

clinch a playoff spot Monday night, the Thunder, the Spurs, and the pelicans.

And all three of them did, and one Western conference team was eliminated.

So let's start with some of these games in the West that had some playoff implications.

And that's going to be Thunder Heat.

Miami started off really hot jumping out to a 15-0 lead in the first quarter

and then they had a slim lead going into the fourth quarter up 81 to 76

but that was before Russell Westbrook went full

Russell Westbrook as the Thunder out scored the heat 39 to 12 in the final period

Westbrook's triple double led the Thunder to a 115 to 93 win and guaranteed them a playoff spot in the West.

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