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Thunder hosts Pacers in NBA Finals Game 7
The Freeman
|June 23, 2025
ONE GAME TO WIN IT ALL
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The winner-take-all battle at OKC’s Paycom Center is set at 8 a.m. on Sunday (Monday, June 23 Philippine time).
“We've got one game,” Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton said. “One game. Nothing that has happened before matters and nothing that’s going to happen after matters. It’s all about that one game.”
The Thunder certainly know it too.
“One game for everything you ever dreamed of,” Oklahoma City’s newly minted NBA Most Valuable Player Shai Gilgeous-Alexander said after the Thunder slumped to a blowout loss in game six.
“If you win it, you get everything. If you lose it, you get nothing.”
The Thunder remain heavy favorites. A victory on their home floor would crown a dazzling campaign in which they led the league with 68 regular-season wins and set a league record for average scoring margin.
Gilgeous-Alexander led the NBA in scoring with 32.7 points per game and could become the first player since Golden State’s Stephen Curry in 2015 to win the MVP award and the title in the same season.
In addition, home teams are 15-4 in Finals game sevens.
This story is from the June 23, 2025 edition of The Freeman.
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