Anthony Davis soars, shuts door on Spurs to push Pelicans past Thunder into playoffs (Ball Don’t Lie)

The New Orleans Pelicans entered Wednesday night with a simple mission: win on the final night of the regular season and you're in the 2015 NBA playoffs. But even the simple's pretty complicated in the Western Conference. In this case, "win and you're in" meant taking down the defending champion San Antonio Spurs, who have been carving up the NBA over the past three months, entered Smoothie King Center having won 11 straight games, and had something to play for — a chance at the No. 2 seed in the Western bracket, which would mean home-court advantage in the first two rounds and a line to avoiding the league-leading Golden State Warriors until the Western Confeference Finals. [ Follow Dunks Don't Lie on Tumblr: The best slams from all of basketball] Beating a team that good, that poised, with that kind of motivation is a pretty tough problem. Luckily for the New Orleans faithful, the Pelicans employ one hell of a problem solver. With 39.6 seconds left in the fourth quarter on Wednesday, the Pelicans were clinging to a seven-point lead after fending off a Spurs comeback. They needed one more stop to slam the door, one more play to punch their postseason ticket. So, naturally,...