The Charlotte Bobcats will play the San Antonio Spurs in an NBA game that will be live streaming online FREE from the A T & T Center in San Antonio at 8:30 PM ET

Kemba Walker and the surging Bobcats are about to find out just how competitive they are against the NBA's top teams. They face the league's top four teams in a tough four-game stretch beginning Friday night at San Antonio. They'll follow that up by playing at Oklahoma City and Miami before returning home to host Indiana.

Charlotte (27-30) has won four straight since the All-Star break, its longest winning streak in three seasons.

Beating Detroit twice, New Orleans and Memphis is one thing but now comes the real test, beginning against a San Antonio team that is 16-2 in the all-time series.

"The good thing about it is we're going to know what we need to work on after that stretch of games," coach Steve Clifford said. "Whatever you don't do well is going to come out."

And the Bobcats are quickly gaining confidence, looking to reach the playoffs for only the second time and the first since 2010.

The Bobcats have already outperformed expectations under Clifford, the team's first-year head coach.

With one more victory, they'll equal their win total from the previous two seasons combined. Charlotte was 7-59 in 2011-12 and 21-61 last season.

Whether it will be good enough against the NBA's best remains to be seen.

The Bobcats are 0-7 against the league's top four teams.

The good news for the Bobcats is even if they get swept over the next four games, they've built enough of a cushion to where they'd still be among the East's top eight teams. Detroit is the conference's ninth-place team and the Bobcats are 4 1/2 games in front of the Pistons and also own the head-to-head tiebreaker.

The Spurs helped the Bobcats out Wednesday, beating Detroit 120-110 as eight players scored in double figures in their first home game since Feb. 1.

Playing without injured All-Star point guard Tony Parker, San Antonio matched its season high with 34 assists while going 44 for 82 from the field (53.7 percent).

"You get 34 assists, that's really incredible," coach Gregg Popovich said. "So the ball movement was fantastic, the pace, we rebounded a little better. It was a good win for them, being on the road so long."

The game will be live streamed online at nbalivestreamfree.net/‎