It's where the heroes write their legends. Where the greatest from the greats ascends. Where the crowd is erupting like a roaring wave –  the one final fight, for the gutsy, the tough, and the brave.

Game Seven.

Two of the best words in the world of sports and it’s providing a fitting conclusion to what has been an entertaining, thrilling and dramatic third Finals showdown between Barangay Ginebra and TNT.

One game to win it all and all of the protagonists are ready to wage an all-out war for the PBA Season 49 Commissioner's Cup crown once the contest formally begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Smart Araneta Coliseum on Friday, March 28.

And with the Finals now boiling down to just one game, the advantages and the adjustments each team had through the first six games of the series will now be thrown out of the window with only their willpower the lone gauge on who will emerge raising the trophy when the final buzzer sounds and the confetti begin falling.

“It’s a player’s game. All out na. Do-or-die,” Scottie Thompson's prompt response when asked about Game 7, seemingly already turning his focus to the all-important contest right after the Game 6 buzzer sounded.

“Tough game but no need to be sad, one more game move on and let’s see what happens,” he added.

Of course, the two Finals heartbreak in their first two meetings is what the Kings are preventing from happening although dragging the contest to a sudden death is already an improvement since the Tropa needed six games in both occasions to dispatch them.

And head coach Tim Cone is hoping his wards are ready for the closeout.

“They‘re never just another game, Game 7 is never just another game. They’re tough games,” said Cone.

Surviving their first do-or-die Finals game with Rondae Hollis-Jefferson after the pulsating 87-83 win in Game 6, the Tropang Giga are excited and brimming with confidence ahead of the winner-take-all.

“Hindi ba? (magandang conclusion ito TNT-ginebra trilogy). Pangatlong championship na namin against Ginebra and first time namin na mangayayari na Game 7,” said a smiling Oftana, although his import, Hollis-Jefferson had a more serious take.

“It's win or go home. It's give everything or don't show up at the end of the day. So, I think I'm ready,” said Hollis-Jefferson, who will be playing his very first Game 7 in his career, which is interestingly, against Justin Brownlee who usually thrives in such situations.

The Ginebra resident import has been undefeated through two Game 7s in his PBA career, with one being against the visiting Bay Area Dragons in the 2023 Commissioner’s Cup – coincidentally the last time Ginebra won a PBA title and the last time the league had a Game 7.