Oklahoma City (AP)-Shai Gilgeous-Alexander ended his MVP season with 29 points and 12 assists, and the Oklahoma City Thunder won the NBA championship and moved away in the second half to beat the Indiana Pacers 103-91 on Sunday evening.
Jalen Williams scored 20 and Chet Holmgren had 18 for the Thunder, who were pushed into a game 7 Brink in the NBA final – but ended a season for the ages. Oklahoma City won 84 games between the regular season and the play-offs and bond the Chicago Bulls from 1996-97 for third place in every season.
Only Golden State (88 in 2016-17) and De Bulls (87 in 2015-16) won more.
It is the second championship for the franchise. The Seattle Supersonics won the NBA title in 1979; The team was moved to Oklahoma City in 2008. There is nothing in the trusses in Oklahoma City to commemorate that title.
In October there will finally be a championship banner. A Thunder -Banner.
It was not easy to secure.
The pacers led 48-47 in half, even afterwards Loses Tyrese Haliburton Observatory What his father said was an Achilles tendon injury about seven minutes in the game. But they were surpassed 34-20 in the third quarter when the Thunder built a 13 points lead and started running away.
Benndict Mathurin had 24 points and 13 rebounds for Indiana, who is still waiting for his first NBA title. The Pacers-Die after 25 games were 10-15 and offered to be the first team in the NBA history that was made of a start in a championship made of leads of 1-0 and 2-1 in the series, but in the end they just didn’t have enough.
Home teams are now 16-4 in NBA Finals Game 7s. And the Thunder became the seventh champion in the last seven seasons, a series of parity like no other in the NBA history.
Pacers vooruit Pascal Siakam maakte deel uit van het Toronto -team dat in 2019 won, Thunder Guard Alex Caruso maakte deel uit van het Los Angeles Lakers -team dat in de pandemie “Bubble” won in 2020, Milwaukee won in 2021, Golden State in 2022, Golden State in 2022, Pacers vooruit Thomas Bryant en Denver Prevailed In 2023 and Boston won last year.
The Thunder is the ninth franchise that wins a title in the 12 seasons of NBA Commissioner Adam Silver who leads the competition. His predecessor, David Stern, saw eight franchises win titles in his 30 seasons as a commissioner.
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