Thunder beat Pacers in Game 7 to win franchise’s first NBA title in Oklahoma City | NBA finals

The Thunder became the NBA champion on Sunday evening, at the top of the Indiana Pacers 103-91 to win the first major professional sports title of Oklahoma City.

Oklahoma City’s response 7, as during their dominant regular season, was youth. The NBA MVP, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, scored 29 points and harvested 12 assists to lead his team, supported by strong efforts by striker Jalen Williams (20 points) and Chet Holmgren (18 points, eight rebounds). The match was won among the Decibel counts above 100, with thousands of fans of Thunder buffering in unison while the trio of young stars of the team pushed the club to the first title of the franchise since it went from Seattle in 2008.

“We certainly have room to grow, this is the funny part of that, we don’t have many people in their united quote,” said Gilgeous-Alexander after the match.

The Thunder overcome another relentless performance by the Pacers, who worked most of the match 7 without Tyrese Haliburton. The star leader splashed three three points in the first seven minutes of the match before falling on the ground in the first period by leading to the defense of the Thunder, grazing without contact, immediately slapping the ground in anxiety. The Pacers excluded it for the rest of the match with a lower leg injury. The player of the player, John, later said to ESPN that his son had injured his Achilles.

“I couldn’t imagine that it happens in the biggest game in my life,” said Gilgeous-Alexander. “It’s so unhappy, it’s not fair.”

The Pacers led by five with Haliburton on the ground, and the first half included 11 head changes with nine links, but Indiana lacked energy in competition without their star during the evening. The reserve leader Paceer TJ McConnell, that the Thunder has already prepared to track down after his superb final performances of matches 5 and 6, contributed 16 points and six assists but also seven reversals, working a 28 -minute summit.

The Thunder has kept its large longtime departure program. Isaiah Hartenstein and Chet Holmgren started together, and the home team remained large, keeping the two big ones in the alignment while the super sixth man Alex Caruso entered alongside two seven feet (a rare look) in the first quarter, immediately splashing two three points.

Caruso started the second half and was the key to the broadcast of Williams’ word, only 24 years old, who scored nine points in the third quarter. Holmgren, who recently had 23 years old, managed seven years during the period. Gilgeous-Alexander, who will be 27 years old in July, struck six points and three assists in the third while the Thunder has outlined visitors 34-20 in the third decisive quarter, leading a tight match in a rout.

A three of Myles Turner equaled the score at 56-56 in the third before the Thunder responds with a three-point trio of their fundamental triptych: Gilgeous-Alexander, Holmgren and Williams in a row. McConnell overturned twice in the section while the Thunder ran a deficit at halftime from an advantage of 81-68 to meet the fourth quarter.

Bennedict Mathurin’s transition score resulted in the 22-point lead from Oklahoma City to 12 with 4:40 to play in match 7 before Gilgeous-Alexander pushes the Thunder in the frank launch bonus, a winning whistle of the coach of the stimulator Rick Carlisle, who was about to be ejected.

Gilgeous-Alexander has extended the advance at 14 with two free throws, McConnell missed a lay-up on Holmgren, and the Thunder saw their first title of the NBA in Oklahoma City settled.

Gilgeous-Alexander was appointed MVP of the finals, capping a brilliant season for the Canadian star.

“It’s not just a victory for me,” said Gilgeous-Alexander. “It’s a victory for my family. It is a victory for my friends. It is a victory for all those who were in my corner growing up. It is a victory for fans.”

The night was attenuated by the injury and the absence of Haliburton. The stimulation goalkeeper delighted the NBA fans in the breaking baskets and winners of the buzzing on Milwaukee, Cleveland, New York, at the top of the Thunder in match 1 with the decisive basket of the game after another return victory of Paceer. An Achilles injury could eliminate Haliburton for all 2025-2026, knowledge not lost on his teammates while they were sweating to fight thunder.

Indiana gave everything, but the Thunder had more.