It seems fitting that the player selected to address the Smoothie King Center crowd before the New Orleans Pelicans’ season finale was wearing a sling on his right arm.

The Oklahoma City Thunder savored a 115-100 win over the helpless New Orleans Pelicans in their regular-season finale. It was another wire-to-wire victory as the former led by as many as 23 points. Both teams sent out their bench to play this game out of necessity but for different reasons.