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Indiana Pacers vs Oklahoma City Thunder

Date
Fri 20th June 2025 (UTC)
Thu 19th June 2025 (Local)

Timestamp
2025-06-20T00:30:00

Time

00:30:00 UTC (20:30:00 Local)

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League
NBA

Season
2024-2025

Round
180

Status
FT

Location
Indianapolis, IN
United States
Gainbridge Fieldhouse
(17,274 Attendance)

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A balanced Pacers effort on both sides of the ball helped extend the series and force a Game 7 in the NBA Finals for the first time since 2016. The Thunder picked up where they left off in Game 5 with an early 10–2 run to start the game. The Pacers quickly responded with a 24–7 run, highlighted by Andrew Nembhard and Obi Toppin scoring 16 of the 24 points and Indiana's defense forcing four turnovers. The first quarter ended with the Pacers leading 28–25, the lowest scoring output in the first quarter of the series for the Thunder. With 5:22 left in the second quarter, Indiana held their largest lead of the Finals when the score was 45–33 after an Aaron Nesmith 3-pointer. The Pacers stretched that to 51–35, completing a 17–2 run over a span of 5:13 from a score of 34–33. The quarter ended with a Pascal Siakam mid-range buzzer beater over Alex Caruso; 40 seconds earlier, Siakam also had a poster dunk on Jalen Williams, off a no-look feed from Tyrese Haliburton. At halftime, Indiana held a commanding 64–42 lead. For Oklahoma City, Williams and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had 31 of the Thunder's 42 points.

Oklahoma City had a chance to get back into the game at the start of the third quarter, as the Pacers missed their first seven shots of the quarter. However, the Thunder also started the quarter cold, also missing their first seven shots, and there were no points scored in the first 3:53 of play. Indiana ended the third the same way they ended the second, with a buzzer beater, this time from Ben Sheppard, which put the score at 90–60. With a big lead, the Pacers were able to rest Haliburton's calf injury for most of the second half. Obi Toppin led the Pacers in scoring with 20 points off the bench. Five other Pacers scored in double figures. As a team, they forced 21 turnovers, including 8 by Gilgeous-Alexander, a career-high for the league's MVP. Oklahoma City shot only 26.7% from beyond the arc, and at −40, Jalen Williams had the worst +/- in NBA Finals history for a single game.