NBA Playoffs 2025 (Poll created for Finals prediction)

[wheezy]

Is Scott Foster really going to ref game 7? If so, that is quite disappointing as I believe the game 5 he did ref there was 7 more fouls called in that game than the average of the first 4 games.

I don't see him on the refs schedule. Looks like James Capers, Josh Tiven, and Sean Wright from what USA Today is saying.

[Qwigglez]

Is Scott Foster really going to ref game 7? If so, that is quite disappointing as I believe the game 5 he did ref there was 7 more fouls called in that game than the average of the first 4 games.

I don't see him on the refs schedule. Looks like James Capers, Josh Tiven, and Sean Wright from what USA Today is saying.

Sweet!

https://www.nba.com/news/officiating-crew-for-game-7-2025-nba-finals

[KdoubleDees23]

Dang halli just tore achilles

[BobbieL]

Dang halli just tore achilles

Terrible for Hali and the Pacers

Dame
Tatum
Hali - if confirmed

All three out of the East next year. Riley and Masai maybe should have been more aggressive in getting Durant. Two of the above were already out.

[TeamTragic]

Dang halli just tore achilles

Terrible for Hali and the Pacers

Dame
Tatum
Hali - if confirmed

All three out of the East next year. Riley and Masai maybe should have been more aggressive in getting Durant. Two of the above were already out.

Heat/Raptors down bad. Can we interest them or the Bucks in Beal?

[KdoubleDees23]

Thunder deserve to lose. They keep jacking 3s when they could take easy shots and be up by 10

[lilfishi22]

Dang halli just tore achilles

Terrible for Hali and the Pacers

Dame
Tatum
Hali - if confirmed

All three out of the East next year. Riley and Masai maybe should have been more aggressive in getting Durant. Two of the above were already out.

That f'n sucks....

[KdoubleDees23]

Dort needs to be benched . Going to lose the game for them

[MrMiyagi]

Indy put up one hell of a fight without Hali. Obi Toppin had an awful stretch in the 3rd, I couldn't believe Carlisle kept him in so long. Indy probably wins without the Hali injury. I don't know if OKC will be back next season.

[bullsaficianado]

This series turned into 2019 NBA Finals. Raptors vs Warriors. Since KD tore his achilies who knows maybe Warriors would have beaten them. Same with Haliburton maybe Pacers win this with a healthy Hali. Oh well. congrats Thunder.

[KdoubleDees23]

This series turned into 2019 NBA Finals. Raptors vs Warriors. Since KD tore his achilies who knows maybe Warriors would have beaten them. Same with Haliburton maybe Pacers win this with a healthy Hali. Oh well. congrats Thunder.

Not going to lie, it sucks to see an injury in game 7. But Halliburton avg 14 ppg and 6 apg in the finals! He wasn't that good this series. Siakim kept them in a lot of the series. Myles Turner wasn't good, and neither was Toppin. McConnell was a great spark, and they should have left him in longer in games.

[starbosa10]

This series turned into 2019 NBA Finals. Raptors vs Warriors. Since KD tore his achilies who knows maybe Warriors would have beaten them. Same with Haliburton maybe Pacers win this with a healthy Hali. Oh well. congrats Thunder.

Not going to lie, it sucks to see an injury in game 7. But Halliburton avg 14 ppg and 6 apg in the finals! He wasn't that good this series. Siakim kept them in a lot of the series. Myles Turner wasn't good, and neither was Toppin. McConnell was a great spark, and they should have left him in longer in games.

Hali was 3 of 4 from 3 in 7 minutes tonight before his Achilles went. Seemed on track for a good game

[Bogyo]

This series turned into 2019 NBA Finals. Raptors vs Warriors. Since KD tore his achilies who knows maybe Warriors would have beaten them. Same with Haliburton maybe Pacers win this with a healthy Hali. Oh well. congrats Thunder.

Not going to lie, it sucks to see an injury in game 7. But Halliburton avg 14 ppg and 6 apg in the finals! He wasn't that good this series. Siakim kept them in a lot of the series. Myles Turner wasn't good, and neither was Toppin. McConnell was a great spark, and they should have left him in longer in games.

Hali was 3 of 4 from 3 in 7 minutes tonight before his Achilles went. Seemed on track for a good game

Yep, I think they win if he puts up a good game - which was pretty sure to happen after that start. He would have scored 35+ or had a 20/20 game...
Too bad, this OKC team is so vanilla for me, they do nothing that I would really enjoy watching... but congrats for them and their front office especially.

[KdoubleDees23]

This series turned into 2019 NBA Finals. Raptors vs Warriors. Since KD tore his achilies who knows maybe Warriors would have beaten them. Same with Haliburton maybe Pacers win this with a healthy Hali. Oh well. congrats Thunder.

Not going to lie, it sucks to see an injury in game 7. But Halliburton avg 14 ppg and 6 apg in the finals! He wasn't that good this series. Siakim kept them in a lot of the series. Myles Turner wasn't good, and neither was Toppin. McConnell was a great spark, and they should have left him in longer in games.

Hali was 3 of 4 from 3 in 7 minutes tonight before his Achilles went. Seemed on track for a good game

Yeah - so he had 2 good games in 7 games. Oh well. Congrats Thunder. I have been to more Thunder games than Suns in my life because I have a lot of clients in OKC. Happy for them and that small state!!!

[wheezy]

Seen on r/nba:

Cason Wallace straight up holding TJ's wrist while the ref is looking right at them. No call and a steal for the Thunder.

[Bogyo]

Seen on r/nba:

Cason Wallace straight up holding TJ's wrist while the ref is looking right at them. No call and a steal for the Thunder.

Thats why I hate the NBA... flashbacks of Jrue "playing" "defense" on our guards, and the blatant calls for half of that on the other end...

[wheezy]

Thats why I hate the NBA... flashbacks of Jrue "playing" "defense" on our guards, and the blatant calls for half of that on the other end...

There was a lot of this in game 4 too when Scott Foster was a ref.

[KLEON]

Thats why I hate the NBA... flashbacks of Jrue "playing" "defense" on our guards, and the blatant calls for half of that on the other end...

There was a lot of this in game 4 too when Scott Foster was a ref.

That's why I don't respect OKC. They don't really play defense they really foul you, SGA's offense solely depends on him extending his elbow to create space, their coach is a mitch because he really irritates me with his challenge calls even up by 30 and 40 points he still feels the need to use it and if that video with the bus is legit I'll hate them even more

[Bogyo]

Thats why I hate the NBA... flashbacks of Jrue "playing" "defense" on our guards, and the blatant calls for half of that on the other end...

There was a lot of this in game 4 too when Scott Foster was a ref.

That's why I don't respect OKC. They don't really play defense they really foul you, SGA's offense solely depends on him extending his elbow to create space, their coach is a mitch because he really irritates me with his challenge calls even up by 30 and 40 points he still feels the need to use it and if that video with the bus is legit I'll hate them even more

Yea, their style of play never appealed to me - but whatever floats whoevers boat. I just always found it laughable how certain teams (and players) get away with fouling on every posession becouse they "play" "tough" "defense". No, they foul and they dont get called, even if they bodycheck someone into the scorers table, or grab the wrist of someone dribbling the ball right infront of the ref... I follow the league, as I enjoy basketball and have been doing it for 30+ years now, but this part always left me truly disgusted (rodman, bruce brown, jrue, whoever else was the "great defender" at that time - not even having to do anything with the Suns.)