The Oklahoma City Thunder and the Indiana Pacers meet in one of the most unexpected NBA Finals of all time
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00:00The finals is a very special thing.
00:02Staying true to who we are is the reason why we're here.
00:05For the most part, most of us are anxious, ready to get out there.
00:09Very happy moment for me, but it's a very happy moment for everybody else.
00:20We'd be doing ourselves a disservice if we change or try to be something we're not.
00:25Once we got here, we've had success doing so.
00:28If we want to keep having success, we have to be who we are.
00:31I'm excited to be here.
00:32Obviously, the finals is a very special thing and something I've wanted to be a part of my whole life.
00:39To be here means the world, and I'm just taking it all in, soaking it all in, and really excited for this moment.
00:45With Shane and the MVP, it shows that the work that he put in is paying off, and not only just to get the MVP, but to help us get to this position in our journey.
01:05And so we're going into this finals, you know, continuing to play for one another.
01:10You have to watch him and understand you're in the same league, so of course you're going to have to compete against him at some point.
01:16You know, what he's been able to do this year has been amazing.
01:19He's an amazing player, the MVP of our league, rightfully so, for a reason.
01:22I feel like that's been the norm for us throughout the playoffs, and that's okay.
01:35We're not really worried about the external noise.
01:38We know what we have to do to win, and we have to do it together.
01:42I think everybody in our locker room or our staff, we enjoy being the underdogs.
01:46I mean, we've been the underdogs since I've gotten here for the last three years.
01:50Every game in the playoffs, it felt like nobody wanted us to win.
01:53We're here, and nothing's new, and we're going to attack it with the same mindset.
01:57If we were to win a championship, I don't want to win any other way.
01:59I don't want to go around or go over.
02:02I want to go through.
02:03You want to go through the best team.
02:04You want to go through the best challenge.
02:05So this is the best challenge, and this is the best team in the NBA.
02:08It's been the best team in the NBA all year.