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) — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 38 points a day after being named the NBA 's MVP, and the Oklahoma City Thunder overwhelmed the Minnesota Timberwolves again, winning, 118-103, on Thursday night, May 22, to take a 2-0 lead in the Western Conference finals....
The case for Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was simple. He 's the best player on an Oklahoma City Thunder team that had the best record this season and set a league mark for margin of victory. If that wasn 't enough, he also won the scoring title. That 's an MVP year. Gilgeous-Alexander was...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 20 of his 31 points in the second half, and the top-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Minnesota Timberwolves, 114-88, on Tuesday night, May 20, in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals. Gilgeous-Alexander made 8 of 14 field goals in the...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma City Thunder grew up on Sunday, May 18. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 35 points, Jalen Williams added 24 and the Thunder rolled into the Western Conference finals, beating the Denver Nuggets, 125-93, in Game 7. The top-seeded Thunder will host the sixth-seeded...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Indiana coach Rick Carlisle put it best in summing up his team’s finishing punch in the Eastern Conference semifinals. “The winning team writes the script,” he said. The Pacers’ 114-105 victory over the Cavaliers in Game 5 on Tuesday night, May 13, was similar to the...
