Thunder Wins NBA Finals Game 7 Against Pacers in OKC

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00:00The two best words in sports and for the first time since 2016 we could utter them for the NBA

00:06finals game seven last night in Oklahoma City between the Thunder and this Pacers team not

00:13expected to be on this stage not expected to force a seventh and decisive winner take all game of the

00:20championship set and yet that's where Indiana was inside the Paycom Center in Oklahoma City

00:27the Thunder seeking its first NBA championship in 17 years in OKC Indiana seeking its first

00:35ever Larry O'Brien trophy in nearly half a century as an NBA franchise and early on DRS

00:42it was a bout back and forth both ways but ultimately in the second half the Thunder as

00:49Indiana was desperately missing Tyrese Halliburton in game seven marred by the early injury in the

00:55opening quarter Oklahoma City prevails a win of 14 points in the third quarter to ultimately win

01:03by 12 103 91 the Thunder bring an NBA championship for the first time ever to OKC they cover as a

01:12seven point home favorite in game seven a total of 215 and a hook stays well under the NBA's best team

01:19all season long ends on top of the association the pinnacle as an NBA champion absolutely and also

01:28understand this 68 wins this is why you play hard the entire way through to get home court advantage

01:33which rose to the occasion twice in the NBA playoffs for OKC Denver game number seven where was that

01:40wasn't an elevation it was in OKC winner by OKC game number seven it wasn't in Indiana where that place

01:46would have been buzzing as well it was in OKC winner OKC and an NBA champion here and you rode the

01:52coattails there of SGA all season long was he fantastic in that performance yesterday no eight

01:56of 27 from the floor but still got to the free throw line 11 of 12 there on conversions 29 total

02:02points a plus 11 there been asking for Chet Holmgren to step up 18 and eight in a decisive game number

02:07seven you love to see it a couple guys off the bench with double digits here but we'd be remiss to say

02:12how did this game play out it would have been way different to me if Tyrese Halliburton does play the

02:17entirety of that game it wasn't as if like OKC I'm coming in the game number seven I know my calf hurts

02:22I'm 0 for 7 to start the game in the first quarter then I get injured so OKC maybe DJ McConnell is going

02:27to be best just to play the entire way through but Tyrese Halliburton's jeep clutch gene was already

02:32engaged with dropping multiple long three-point shots there in the first quarter alone it's a shame that he

02:38got injured because it did change the momentum but again I credit Indiana won the second

02:42quarter and had the lead at halftime but you can't ask for like an all-NBA all-star selection

02:47to not be there against a better overall team on the road in the game number seven and expect a victory

02:52things happen there it's a shame it did but OKC was the better team and they won this series