San Antonio buckle under two-pronged Oklahoma City attack
Westbrook and Durant come out fighting in game four and lift Thunder over listless Spurs to square the series in front of home fans
Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant combined for 71 points to lift Oklahoma City to a 105-92 victory over San Antonio that tied their NBA play-off series at two games each.
The Thunder pulled level in the best-of-seven Western Conference finals with their second straight home win, after the Spurs had taken a 2-0 lead with two big victories on their home floor.
San Antonio will try to regain the advantage when they host game five on Thursday night.
That was one of our keys going into this series. We played with great toughness
The winners of the series will face either two-time defending NBA champions Miami or Indiana in the NBA finals.
With the win, the Thunder have recalled the 2012 Western Conference finals, in which the Spurs won the first two games at home only to drop the next four contests to a young, hungry Oklahoma City team.
"We're not even thinking about 2012," Thunder coach Scott Brooks said. "We've moved on from that."
But Brooks was pleased that his team withstood a fast start by the Spurs, shooting 50.8 per cent from the field over the first three quarters to build a substantial lead, one aided by a staggering 21-0 advantage in fastbreak points