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Thunder or Pacers: Who ought to Warriors followers root for in 2025 NBA Finals?

Editorial Board Published June 4, 2025
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SAN FRANCISCO – Warriors followers is perhaps tempted to take a look at from the NBA playoffs after their workforce was eradicated within the second spherical.

Giving in to that impulse could be an enormous mistake.

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The Pacers and Thunder are set to compete within the NBA Finals for an opportunity to win their workforce’s first NBA championship– no, the Supersonics’ historical past doesn’t rely. Whoever wins can be one other testomony to the league’s parity.

As franchises with younger superstars and rosters full of enjoyable tales, there are many causes to root for both workforce.

However when you’re the form of fan who thrives off negativity, that is nonetheless the collection for you.

There’s additionally lots to detest about every franchise. 

Listed here are seven the reason why you need to – or shouldn’t – need every workforce to hoist the Larry O’Brien Trophy. 

 The case for the Thunder

The Thunder did issues “the right way,” buying and selling for Shai Gilgeous-Alexander after his rookie season and in any other case constructing completely by way of the draft and shrewd veteran additions. Type of reminds one in all one other Western Convention workforce …. 

Gilgeous-Alexander is among the few superstars to visitors closely within the mid-range, scoring his buckets on powerful middies which might be harking back to a supercharged Monta Ellis.

All-Star Jalen Williams is a proud Santa Clara alum and has blossomed into one of many vibrant younger stars of the NBA. And Saint Mary’s graduate Alex Ducas, whereas caught on the bench within the postseason as a two-way participant, brings East Bay illustration to the Thunder. 

The Thunder beat the Timberwolves – who in flip took out the Warriors – within the convention finals. If OKC can shut it out, then Warriors followers can say that their workforce misplaced to the workforce that misplaced to the champs. 

James Wiseman will obtain his second ring if the Pacers win. That must be sufficient motivation to hope the Thunder sweep. 

Warriors followers can thank the Thunder for 2 of their titles. Golden State earned the well-known 3-1 comeback within the 2016 West finals, then took that workforce’s greatest participant in Kevin Durant and gained titles whereas the Thunder fell out of competition. 

No crowd – not a single one – does the playoff T-shirt factor higher than Oklahoma Metropolis followers. The Warriors followers might be taught a factor or two about taking part within the custom. 

The case for the Pacers

No workforce within the league performs the identical form of enjoyable, team-first basketball that the Pacers make use of with Tyrese Haliburton working the present. They run, they go and they don’t stop till the ultimate buzzer. 

For many who are into hoops historical past, the Pacers are one of many 4 American Basketball Affiliation groups that joined the NBA when the leagues merged in 1976. The three-point shot, which the Warriors later perfected, got here from that league.  

Myles Turner is the Pacers’ 10-year veteran who has been linked to the Warriors at the very least a dozen occasions in pretend commerce proposals as followers clamored for a dynamic heart. So now, Warriors followers can lastly root for Turner in earnest. 

Not like sure groups, the Pacers don’t spend a lot time on the free-throw line, taking the Thirteenth-fewest foul photographs within the league. Warriors followers will watch a workforce that really tries to play basketball on offense. 

Talking of free throws, permitting Gilgeous-Alexander and his egregious flopping and foul-baiting to be rewarded with a hoop could be an affront to the game. Indiana is the one workforce left to cease a grifted championship.

Indiana saved the world from one other Knicks collection and extra annoying Sidetalk movies. 

Haliburton was picked by the Kings within the 2021 draft, however they determined to ship him off a yr later. As a substitute of questioning what might have been had then-Warriors GM Bob Myers picked Haliburton as an alternative of Wiseman, Warriors followers can take this as a chance to snort at Sacramento.

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