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INDIANAPOLIS – For the first time in nine years, there will be a Game 7 in the NBA Finals, and with it, a chance for the Indiana Pacers to pull off one of the greatest championship series upsets of all time.

INDIANAPOLIS – Tyrese Haliburton participated in the Indiana Pacers’ walk-through and shootaround Wednesday with the intent of playing in Game 6 of the NBA Finals with a strained right calf.

Monday night at Paycom Center, Pops saw it, felt it, as his son Jalen Williams bent Game 5 of the NBA Finals to his will. The All-Star forward attacked the Indiana Pacers like his reputation needed saving. Crossovers to the paint. Shoulder into chests. Layups softly off glass.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Jalen Williams played the best playoff game of his life, the Oklahoma City Thunder survived one of the Indiana Pacers’ patented, double-digit comebacks, and the NBA Finals are, or could be, nearly decided.

INDIANAPOLIS – Since January, the Indiana Pacers have shown their strength in clutch scenarios. They’ve outscored the Oklahoma City Thunder by more than 20 points in fourth quarters in the NBA Finals, but they fumbled away a seven-point lead in Game 4.

INDIANAPOLIS – Chet Holmgren sat on the bench with a little more than seven minutes remaining in a tight game, checking on the state of his left ankle. He had endured a rough stretch minutes earlier. At the end of one possession, Jalen Williams landed on it, and Holmgren hobbled up the court. Then Aaron Nesmith leveled Holmgren with a shot to the right shin that sent him to the floor.

INDIANAPOLIS – The comeback kings had it happen to them for a change, and once again, the 2025 NBA Finals are tied because of it.

When the Oklahoma City Thunder left the court at Gainbridge Fieldhouse Wednesday night, as an arena erupted in celebratory glee behind them, they walked into a 2-1 deficit in the NBA Finals. What was supposed to be a coronation for the team that has dominated this season, with 68 wins and its Most Valuable Player in Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, may end up crowning the Indiana Pacers instead.

INDIANAPOLIS – From the streets of Montreal to the NBA Academy in Mexico to the star of one of the best finals games in the last decade. That’s the road Indiana Pacers reserve guard Bennedict Mathurin is on.

Just how pivotal is Game 3 of the NBA Finals? In the previous 41 instances that a Finals series was tied 1-1, the winner of Game 3 went on to win the championship 80.5% of the time. That’s what is on the line for the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Indiana Pacers on Wednesday night at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Go ahead and join in on the silly chant if you so please.

NBA commissioner Adam Silver indicated that there could be authorization to start a formal expansion process from the league’s owners coming in July during the next Board of Governors meeting.

OKLAHOMA CITY – There was no magical comeback, no last-second stunner by the opponent. Just a more typical, complete, dominant effort from the Thunder.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Chet Holmgren and Jalen Williams were both drafted by the Oklahoma City Thunder during the 2022 NBA lottery. They are one year apart in age (Williams has him beat by 13 months) and are, arguably, the second- and third-most important players for their team.

OKLAHOMA CITY — How many more times do Tyrese Haliburton and the Indiana Pacers need to show us who they are for us to believe them?

OKLAHOMA CITY – How many times has Tyrese Haliburton done this already? Better yet, how many more will it take to make the Indiana Pacers champions?

OKLAHOMA CITY – There is another side to the discussion of this being the “small-market NBA Finals,” one that has nothing to do with concerns over potentially low TV ratings.

Talk to 10 Seattleites about the Sonics, and you will receive 10 different statements about how they’re feeling right now. Time has dulled some of the strongest emotions, but the pain is chronic. 

INDIANAPOLIS – The Indiana Pacers came in as the returning Eastern Conference finalist most had forgotten about. All of New York, and the basketball world, remembers them now.