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1 week ago |
aol.com | Ben Rohrbach
INDIANAPOLIS — As doors opened to the media inside the Oklahoma City Thunder's locker room, on one end veterans Alex Caruso and Isaiah Hartenstein sat dejected. On the other Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Jalen Williams carried on a jovial, non-basketball-related conversation, as if the loss had never happened. It did happen.
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1 week ago |
sports.yahoo.com | Ben Rohrbach
All series long, Indiana Pacers head coach Rick Carlisle has described the task of slowing the Oklahoma City Thunder — a heavy betting favorite from the start of the 2025 NBA Finals — as a "daunting" one. "The magnitude of the challenge with Oklahoma City is daunting because of the kind of year they had and how great they are," he said between Games 3 and 4. "They're historically great in so many different areas, and they got the MVP. It's hard.
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1 week ago |
sports.yahoo.com | Ben Rohrbach
INDIANAPOLIS — In the grand scheme of things, following a 111-104 loss Friday night to the 68-win, top-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder, the fourth-seeded Indiana Pacers have done their job. They board a flight back to OKC after Game 4 in a tied series against one of the heaviest betting favorites in NBA Finals history. But that is not how Indiana's Obi Toppin sees it. Advertisement"Nah," he said, "I felt like we should have got this one today."And they should have.
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2 weeks ago |
aol.com | Ben Rohrbach
INDIANAPOLIS — Only twice in history has a No. 4 seed or lower faced a top overall seed in the NBA Finals, and never before has a seed so low led the championship series against the team that finished with the league's best record in the regular season. Yet, here we are, nearly midway through the 2025 best-of-seven set, and the fourth-seeded Indiana Pacers lead the 68-win Oklahoma City Thunder, 2-1. And who does not like a David vs. Goliath sports story? The viewers, for one.
Thunder vs. Pacers NBA Finals: OKC looks uncomfortable, and now its dream season is suddenly at risk
2 weeks ago |
sports.yahoo.com | Ben Rohrbach
INDIANAPOLIS — As Oklahoma City Thunder general manager Sam Presti turned the corner of the concourse in the bowels of Gainbridge Fieldhouse, following a 116-107 loss to the Indiana Pacers in Game 3 of the NBA Finals, a look of concern covered the face of one of the smartest men in basketball. This is what the Pacers do. This is what they have been doing.
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