Noah Rubin

1 day ago | nbcsports.com | Kurt Helin |Raphielle Johnson |Noah Rubin

With Game 1 of the 2025 NBA Finals between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Indiana Pacers scheduled to tip off Thursday at 8:30 p.m. ET., we’ve gathered Kurt Helin, Raphielle Johnson, and Noah Rubin to break down the important questions and the matchups to watch during the series, as well as their predictions on how the 2025 NBA Finals will play out. Noah Rubin: Can they? Potentially. Will they? I’m not banking on it.

3 days ago | nbcsports.com | Raphielle Johnson |Kurt Helin |Noah Rubin

New York hired Tom Thibodeau to take over as the team’s head coach ahead of the 2020-21 season. Things went well early on; he won Coach of the Year in his first season at the helm and helped the Knicks return to the postseason. Year two was a down year, but New York advanced past the first round each of the last three seasons and made the Eastern Conference Finals this season.

1 week ago | nbcsports.com | Noah Rubin |Raphielle Johnson |Kurt Helin

The deadline for players to withdraw from the NBA draft and still play college basketball has passed, and we saw numerous talented players opt to return to college for another season, including Michigan’s Yaxel Lendeborg, Alabama’s Labaron Philon and Auburn’s Tahaad Pettiford, among others. Those moves take away from some of the depth of this class, but this is the new reality of NIL money being available.

2 weeks ago | nbcsports.com | Kurt Helin |Raphielle Johnson |Noah Rubin

The matchups are set for the 2025 NBA conference finals, as the Thunder will meet the Timberwolves in the Western Conference Finals and the Knicks will play the Pacers in the Eastern Conference Finals. You can find everything you need to know about those series in the links below.

2 weeks ago | sports.yahoo.com | Kurt Helin |Raphielle Johnson |Noah Rubin

The matchups are set for the 2025 NBA conference finals, as the Thunder will meet the Timberwolves in the Western Conference Finals and the Knicks will play the Pacers in the Eastern Conference Finals. You can find everything you need to know about those series in the links below.