2025 NBA FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #4 Indiana Pacers (IND leads 1-0)

[bisme37]

Game 1: Thursday June 5th, 8:30pm ET on ABC

Congrats and enjoy the Finals, Thunder and Pacers fans, go your team!

[RB34]

Good luck to both teams!

Unstoppable offence vs impenetrable defence!

Pray for no injuries! Should be a cracker!

[Johnny Tomala]

Thunder in 5, SGA Finals MVP.

[Ballings7]

PACERS IN SIX

Should be a fun, back and forth series ..

[Statlanta]

Rooting for Goliath, in that the Bisons defeat the Race Cars in 5

[r0drig0lac]

two great teams

[raptor jesus]

It's been fun to watch the Pacers play team ball, but I don't think they'll have much success playing that way against OKC. I suspect OKC will make the Pacers play a lot of 1-on-1, which isn't really their game. I have the Thunder in 5.

[VicG]

This is a really beautiful finals. Deep, skilled teams. Not heliocentric. Hopefully this is the style emulated by other teams going forward.

[Iwasawitness]

I’m very curious as to how OKC is going to deal with Siakam. He’s been a major matchup problem throughout the playoffs, and I see no reason as to why he doesn’t have his way with Chet in this one. And that depth of Indy is going to be unlike anything OKC has ever dealt with.

On the other side though, OKC is going to be without question the toughest defensive resistance Indy will be facing in these playoffs. It’ll be interesting to see what Indy does if they’re struggling with the perimeter defensive pressure.

SGA vs Haliburton is going to be a war. Can’t wait to see it.

[LakerLegend]

Problem for Indiana is they don’t have anyone remotely close to sga.

[Marvin Martian]

IND doesn't have the size, speed, and defense to keep up with OKC. Anything worse than OKC in 5 is a fireable offense

[Patches Perry]

It's hard to tell how teams with really dominant team identities will clash with each other. Pacers play really fast, and OKC is a really fast and deep team. Either the speed and ball movement will be kryponite to OKC's defense, or OKC's propensity to turn teams over will actually act as a multiplier against a team that moves the ball a lot (more movement equals more passes and more opportunities for turnovers). If OKC's turnover machine can force Indiana into 1 on 1 offense with minimal passing, OKC wins easy. If Indiana can work their offense to break down OKC's defense, they can win it.

I really don't know. Good luck Pacers fans. I love yall now but hate yall going forward.

[MoneyTalks41890]

I’ll be at game 4, so would be great if that one meant something in particular.

[oikosnomos]

Double post

[namlede]

I’m very curious as to how OKC is going to deal with Siakam. He’s been a major matchup problem throughout the playoffs, and I see no reason as to why he doesn’t have his way with Chet in this one. And that depth of Indy is going to be unlike anything OKC has ever dealt with.

On the other side though, OKC is going to be without question the toughest defensive resistance Indy will be facing in these playoffs. It’ll be interesting to see what Indy does if they’re struggling with the perimeter defensive pressure.

SGA vs Haliburton is going to be a war. Can’t wait to see it.

If I was OKC I’d bench Hartenstein and start Chet. Chet guard Turner, JDub guard Pascal, Caruso guards him when he comes in.

[ExplosionsInDaSky]

This isn't as one sided as people are making this out to be. I think Indiana can hang with OKC. This goes 7 games and looks to be one of the more thrilling finals match-ups we've had in recent years.

[Castle Black]

Incredible Finals run by this Pacers team but this one won't be close. OKC in 5 at most.

[GiannisAnte34]

OKC is favored -800 and favored to cover -2.5 games

Are they really that dominant? I kinda doubt they are worthy of those kinda odds

[VicG]

[streamable][/streamable]

I’m very curious as to how OKC is going to deal with Siakam. He’s been a major matchup problem throughout the playoffs, and I see no reason as to why he doesn’t have his way with Chet in this one. And that depth of Indy is going to be unlike anything OKC has ever dealt with.

On the other side though, OKC is going to be without question the toughest defensive resistance Indy will be facing in these playoffs. It’ll be interesting to see what Indy does if they’re struggling with the perimeter defensive pressure.

SGA vs Haliburton is going to be a war. Can’t wait to see it.

I assume they’ll start with Dort or Hart on Pascal. JDub on Hali. Wallace as well.

[oikosnomos]

Neither of these teams have ever won a championship, so that’s awesome right there. I always assumed OKC would likely end up winning it all this year, but the Pacer, at least for me, came out of nowhere and really impressed me. I mostly like all these players, so I’m not really rooting against any of them. I guess I’ll go Pacers in 7, just to rep the East and say my Cavs only lose to the eventual champs.

Congrats to both fan bases. Ignore the big market/small market noise. These are two deep and talented teams. But only one can win. The other is just another one of the 28 losers this year