Oklahoma City Thunder vs Indiana Pacers

Date
Mon 9th June 2025 (UTC)
Sun 8th June 2025 (Local)

Timestamp
2025-06-09T00:00:00

Time

00:00:00 UTC (19:00:00 Local)

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League
NBA

Season
2024-2025

Round
180

Status
FT

Location
Oklahoma City, OK
United States
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The Thunder bounced back from their Game 1 defeat by defeating the Pacers 123–107 to tie the series at 1–1, winning their first Finals game since their Game 1 win in 2012 against the eventual champion Miami Heat. The Thunder started off with a six-point lead over the Pacers in the opening quarter. In the second quarter, the Thunder capitalised on a 19–2 run, jumping out to a 23-point lead before finishing with an 18-point lead at halftime. For the rest of the game, Indiana was unable to cut the lead back down to single digits. Tyrese Haliburton attempted to spark the Pacers in the beginning of the fourth quarter, but a Thunder response left Indiana unable to bring the deficit under 19 points for the first six minutes before they ceded defeat.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander followed up his 38-point Finals debut by leading all Thunder scorers with 34 points (in addition to eight assists and five rebounds), totaling 72 points across two games. He surpassed Allen Iverson (71 points, 2001) for the most combined points scored in a player's first two Finals games. Gilgeous-Alexander became the 12th player to score a combined 3,000 points in the regular season and playoffs. This also marked his ninth consecutive home playoff game with at least 30 points, tying an NBA record previously set by Wilt Chamberlain. For the rest of Oklahoma City, Jalen Williams and Chet Holmgren came back from poor offensive performances in Game 1 with 19 and 15 points respectively. The Thunder became the first team to have five or more 15+ point scorers in a Finals game since the 2019 Toronto Raptors. Haliburton led the Pacers with 17 points, while Myles Turner and Pascal Siakam added 16 and 15, respectively. For the second straight game, none of the Pacers reached 20 points; they became the first team since the 2013 Miami Heat to have no players score 20 points in two straight Finals games.