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Oklahoma City Thunder vs Indiana Pacers

Date
Tue 17th June 2025 (UTC)
Mon 16th June 2025 (Local)

Timestamp
2025-06-17T00:30:00

Time

00:30:00 UTC (19:30:00 Local)

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League
NBA

Season
2024-2025

Round
180

Status
FT

Location
Oklahoma City, OK
United States
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(18,203 Attendance)

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Oklahoma City halted an Indiana fourth-quarter comeback attempt to take a 3–2 lead. Jalen Williams scored a career playoff-high 40 points and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander added 31 in the Thunder's 120–109 win. It was the 10th time the Thunder star duo combined for more than 70 points in a game. Williams was 14-of-24 from the field, while Gilgeous-Alexander added 10 assists after having none in game 4. The pair combined to score or assist on 103 points, the most by a duo in an NBA Finals game in the past 50 years, according to ESPN Research. Through five games, Gilgeous-Alexander and Williams had 291 combined points, the fourth-most by a duo through the first five games of an NBA Finals since the NBA-ABA merger in 1977. Off the bench, Aaron Wiggins added 14 points and Cason Wallace, who was benched for Isaiah Hartenstein in Game 4, had 4 steals and scored 11 points; Alex Caruso also had 4 steals for an Oklahoma City defense that forced 22 Pacers' turnovers. After a rough game shooting the ball from three in Game 4, Williams (3-of-5), Luguentz Dort (3-of-6), Wiggins (4-of-7), and Wallace (3-of-4) led the 3-point shooting for OKC, who shot 43.8% from beyond the arc as a team.

Similar to their previous two games in Oklahoma City, the Pacers got off to a rough start. Tyrese Haliburton strained his right calf in the first quarter and was not the same the rest of the game, not making a field goal and only scoring four points. Down by as many as 18 late in the second quarter, the Pacers got within five late in the third quarter. With Haliburton hampered, back-up point guard T. J. McConnell led the rally, scoring 13 points in just under seven minutes. The Pacers took that momentum over to the fourth quarter, as Pascal Siakam made a pair of free throws with 9:19 left to get Indiana within four and then made a 3-pointer a minute later to cut the score to 95–93. However, this would be the closest Indiana got as OKC ratcheted up the pressure, outscoring Indiana 21–8 over the next five minutes. Siakam finished with 28 points on 9-of-15 shooting, and McConnell scored 18 points overall. This was the first time this postseason that the Pacers trailed in a playoff series.