The Oklahoma City Thunder have
won their first-ever NBA championship title after dominating the
Indiana Pacers at home, 103-91, in Game 7 of the 2025 NBA Finals on
Sunday night.
After a historic regular season,
the Thunder are a city of champions and they did it the OKC way. It
is the 1st title in the OKC era and they are the youngest NBA
champion in 48 years with an average age of 25.6 years
old.
The Thunder were engaged in a
tight game with Indiana in the first half as the road team was
bringing it on both ends of the floor. Tyrese Haliburton scored 3
early threes for the Pacers, while Andrew Nembhard and Pascal
Siakam provided the stability on their offense.
Despite Haliburton going down
with an apparent right leg injury due to aggravating his calf
strain (it was later reported to be an achilles injury), Indiana
was not backing down, even taking a 48-47 lead at halftime on the
road.
But then it was OKC’s turn to
turn it up in the second half and bring the fight to their
opponents. The Thunder put the clamps on the Pacers in the third
quarter, going on their signature runs where they force turnovers
with their suffocating defense and turn it into easy points. They
forced 18 points off turnovers in the quarter to break the game
wide open, and that was more than enough for the final
tally.
After conjuring one of the
longest NBA Finals scoring droughts in the past 20 years with 6
minutes, 17 seconds time differential, the Pacers tried to mount
another comeback led by Bennedict Mathurin, cutting the lead down
to 10. But that was the closest the Pacers got as OKC closed the
game out to bring an end to what has been an amazing back and
forth series and come out as NBA champions.
In the end, The Oklahoma City
Thunder set three notable NBA records: +259, best home point
differential in a single playoffs; +52, best turnover differential
in a single playoffs; and 19-2, best record following a loss in a
single season.
The Oklahoma City Thunder just set three
notable NBA records:1) +259, best home point differential in a single playoffs
2) +52, best turnover differential in a single playoffs
3) 19-2, best record following a loss in a single season— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob)
June 23, 2025
For his efforts, Shai
Gilgeous-Alexander was named the Finals MVP. SGA caps his
one-of-a-kind season by winning the scoring title, regular season
MVP, Western Conference Finals MVP, and now an NBA title and the
Finals MVP.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander this year:
-All-star Starter
-Scoring champion
-Regular season MVP
-All-NBA 1st team
-Western Conference Finals MVP
-NBA Champion
-Finals MVPTruly one of the greatest single-season campaigns of all-time.
pic.twitter.com/lsuWLoOsVO“My Anthony Valmoir (
June 23, 2025
