Andrew Greif
Sports reporter @NBCnews. Author of BEYOND FAST, coming 9/25. Pronounce it ‘Grife’ and we'll get along just fine.
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2 days ago |
nbcnews.com | Andrew Greif
The Oklahoma City Thunder were the hottest NBA team all season. The Indiana Pacers were the most unstoppable of the postseason's past month. Now, they meet in the NBA Finals. When Game 1 tips off Thursday in Oklahoma City, both teams will be ending long droughts - 12 years since the Thunder's last Finals appearance and a 25-year absence for the Pacers. Oklahoma City is chasing the franchise's first championship since it relocated from Seattle in 2008.
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3 days ago |
nbcnews.com | Andrew Greif
Days after the New York Knicks finished their deepest run in the NBA playoffs in a quarter-century, the team has fired their coach, the team announced. Tom Thibodeau, who had coached the Knicks for five seasons, is out after a 226-174 overall record with the team, including 24-23 in the postseason. New York advanced to its first Eastern Conference Finals since 2000 this spring but lost in six games to the Indiana Pacers.
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3 days ago |
aol.com | Andrew Greif
These NBA playoffs have defied conventional wisdom about what works, and what doesn’t, in the postseason. Double-digit comebacks? Playing on the road? Inexperience? Neither has been an impediment for the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Indiana Pacers, who have overcome each to make the NBA Finals. The Thunder have the second-youngest roster to have made the Finals in the last 70 years. The Pacers, meanwhile, have thrived on the road and are winning despite historically low odds.
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1 week ago |
nbcnews.com | Andrew Greif
May 30, 2025, 5:28 AM EDTIn the summer of 2021, Paris Saint-Germain had seemingly everything it needed to get the one thing it didn’t have: a reputation as one of global soccer’s big winners. Its roster appeared built out of a video game. Kylian Mbappé, the 22-year-old World Cup champion from France, alongside Brazilian superstar Neymar and, in a breathtaking signing, Lionel Messi, the Argentine many considered the world’s best player of all time.
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1 week ago |
nbcnews.com | Andrew Greif
Just three years after finishing with one of the worst records in the Western Conference, the Oklahoma City Thunder are now best in the West. The Thunder beat the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday, 124-94, to win their conference finals in five games and advance to the team’s first NBA Finals since 2012. Oklahoma City will face either Indiana or New York; the Pacers currently hold a 3-1 series lead.
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