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It is a rarity in NBA history to see a franchise shun headline-grabbing trades, focus on patience, and still capture a championship on its first real run. The Oklahoma City Thunder are that exception: a youthful core built through the draft and refined by unconventional coaching ideas surged from a...
Five Minutes That Changed Finals Lore Until the last TV timeout of Game 4 in the 2025 Finals, the series looked set to tilt toward Indiana. By then the Thunder had failed to find any rhythm between shots and passes: just 2-for-14 from deep, double-digit turnovers and only eight assists, all whil...
1. A Surge That Never Became a Comeback The script of Game 5 of the NBA Finals looped an old story: the Pacers, like a wind-up toy, crawled from a hopeless -16 to a nerve-tingling -2, posing as a team capable of flipping the game at any moment. This time, however, they lugged around a sack of...
Doubt and Pain: When a Leader Has No Time to Heal Ahead of Game 6, it seemed the Thunder needed only to step onto the floor and collect the trophy. The Pacers had dropped two straight, and their maestro Tyrese Haliburton was battling a sharp calf pain—during the regular season he would have sat at...
Not Just Anyone, but the Best: The Journey From Overlooked High Schooler to NCAA Star When city high-school championships were held in Hamilton, Canada, the name of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander did not appear on the shortlist of top prospects. Coaches praised his wingspan and coordination but sighed at...