OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The ratings are down for these NBA Finals, as was expected. Oklahoma City vs. Indiana is a small-market series and the numbers reflect that, with viewership down about 20% from last season and on pace for the poorest TV turnout since the pandemic “bubble” finals in 2020....
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Pacers aren 't celebrating. The Oklahoma City Thunder aren 't panicking. The NBA Finals scoreboard is what it is — Pacers 2, Thunder 1 — going into Game 4 of the best-of-seven title series on Friday night, June 13. Everybody can count to four, and...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Every time Indiana has lost a game in the last three months, it simply has come back to win the next one. Even in the NBA Finals — against a huge favorite who the Pacers now have in some trouble. Bennedict Mathurin scored 27 points off the bench, Tyrese Haliburton finished...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Oklahoma City Thunder showed their bounce-back capability in Game 2. The Indiana Pacers know they better do the same in Game 3. The NBA Finals resume Wednesday night, June 11, with the series tied at a game apiece, the matchup shifting to Indianapolis for Game 3 and what...
The moment is clearly not too big for Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. These are his first NBA Finals. It 's hard to remember that sometimes. The Oklahoma City Thunder star — and NBA MVP — just had a pair of debut finals games like nobody in league history, with a combined 72 points in his first...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — This has been Oklahoma City 's formula all season: Lose one game, respond in the next. That 's exactly what the Thunder did in Game 2 of the NBA Finals. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 34 points, Alex Caruso added 20 off the bench and the Thunder beat the Indiana...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Tyrese Haliburton and the never-say-die Indiana Pacers pulled off yet another last-second comeback, this time on the NBA 's biggest stage. Haliburton 's 21-foot jumper with 0.3 seconds left gave Indiana its first and only lead of the game, and the Pacers stunned the...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — In these NBA Finals, a team is four wins away from getting the last laugh. Ask anyone on the Oklahoma City Thunder and Indiana Pacers if they 're still fueled by doubters, and the answer is probably going to be an immediate “yes.” Thunder star and NBA MVP Shai...
Oklahoma City spent most of the regular season alone atop the Western Conference standings and just kept adding to its lead. Indiana didn 't spend a single day atop the Eastern Conference standings and was still under the .500 mark in early January. Different paths, same destination. It will...
Gone were the days of National University men’s and women’s teams hanging at the bottom of the UAAP volleyball standings, because in the new era, it seemed they became the standard in the collegiate scene. The proof? The Bulldogs extended their reigns and completed a rare five-peat, while the...
The National University Lady Bulldogs further established themselves as the undisputed queens of UAAP volleyball with a victory over the De La Salle University Lady Spikers in Season 87 finals. But for all the reasons they are the strongest in recent years, the Sampaloc spikers only needed...
Bella Belen and Alyssa Solomon made sure to finish their impressive UAAP careers in style after steering National University to a 25-19, 25-18, 25-19 win over De La Salle University to clinch their third women’s volleyball title in four years in Season 87 at the jam-packed Mall of Asia Arena in...
