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NBA Finals: Oklahoma Metropolis captures title as Haliburton harm dooms Indiana

Editorial Board Published June 23, 2025
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OKLAHOMA CITY — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander walked off the courtroom for the ultimate time this season, collapsed into the arms of coach Mark Daigneault, and eventually smiled.

It was over.

The climb is full. The rebuild is completed. The Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder are champions.

One of the best workforce all season was the very best workforce on the finish, bringing the NBA title to Oklahoma Metropolis for the primary time. Gilgeous-Alexander completed off his MVP season with 29 factors and 12 assists, and the Thunder beat the Indiana Pacers — who misplaced Tyrese Haliburton to a critical leg harm within the opening minutes — 103-91 in Sport 7 of the NBA Finals on Sunday night time.

“It doesn’t feel real,” mentioned Gilgeous-Alexander, the Finals MVP. “So many hours. So many moments. So many emotions. So many nights of disbelief. So many nights of belief. It’s crazy to know that we’re all here, but this group worked for it. This group put in the hours, and we deserve this.”

Former Santa Clara Broncos star Jalen Williams scored 20 factors, and Chet Holmgren had 18 for the Thunder, who completed off a season for the ages. Oklahoma Metropolis gained 84 video games between the common season and the playoffs, tying the 1996-97 Chicago Bulls for the third most in any season.

Solely Golden State (88 in 2016-17) and the Bulls (87 in 2015-16) gained extra.

It’s the second championship for the franchise. The Seattle SuperSonics gained the NBA title in 1979; the workforce was moved to Oklahoma Metropolis in 2008. There’s nothing within the rafters in Oklahoma Metropolis to commemorate that title.

In October, a championship banner is lastly coming — a Thunder banner.

Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder ahead Jalen Williams, who starred at Santa Clara College, reacts through the second half of Sport 7 of the NBA Finals basketball collection in opposition to the Indiana Pacers Sunday, June 22, 2025, in Oklahoma Metropolis. (AP Photograph/Nate Billings) 

The Pacers led 48-47 on the half, even after shedding Haliburton to what his father mentioned was an Achilles tendon harm about seven minutes into the sport. However they had been outscored 34-20 within the third quarter because the Thunder constructed a 13-point lead and started to run away.

Bennedict Mathurin had 24 factors and 13 rebounds for Indiana, which continues to be ready for its first NBA title.

The Pacers — who had been 10-15 after 25 video games and had been bidding to be the primary workforce in NBA historical past to show that unhealthy of a begin right into a championship — had leads of 1-0 and 2-1 within the collection, however they didn’t have sufficient in the long run.

Dwelling groups improved to 16-4 in NBA Finals Sport 7s. And the Thunder turned the seventh champion within the final seven seasons, a run of parity unmatched in NBA historical past.

Pacers ahead Pascal Siakam was a part of the Toronto workforce that gained in 2019, Thunder guard Alex Caruso was a part of the Los Angeles Lakers workforce that gained within the pandemic “bubble” in 2020, Milwaukee gained in 2021, Golden State in 2022, Pacers ahead Thomas Bryant and Denver prevailed in 2023, and Boston gained final 12 months’s title.

And now, the Thunder get their flip. The youngest workforce to win a title in practically half a century has reached the NBA mountaintop.

The Thunder are the ninth franchise to win a title in NBA Commissioner Adam Silver’s 12 seasons. His predecessor, David Stern, noticed eight franchises win titles in his 30 seasons as commissioner.

“They behave like champions. They compete like champions,” Daigneault mentioned. “They root for each other’s success, which is rare in professional sports. I’ve said it many times, and now I’m going to say it one more time. They are an uncommon team and now they’re champions.”

Initially Printed: June 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM PDT

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