OKC Thunder Keeping Pace in NBA Finals
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Tyrese Haliburton says he and the Pacers are excited to rebound from heartbreaking NBA Finals Game 4 loss to Thunder on Monday
The result was only the second clutch game the Pacers lost this postseason, a 111-104 Thunder win that ties the series up at 2-2. What has been a highly entertaining, well-played Finals will see Game 5 Monday night in Oklahoma City. It also feels like a series that is going to go seven games.
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Indiana coach Rick Carlisle offered an impassioned and somewhat unprompted defense of referee Scott Foster on Sunday, evidently aware of the mountains of online criticism that came after Game 4 of the NBA Finals.
There are plenty of SGA-related numbers after the OKC Thunder's Game 4 win but there were plenty of other key numbers as well.
However, what won the 68 games and got them to the Finals was their defense, and the Pacers torched that for a long stretch of Game 3. Indiana took better shots and capitalized on them, finishing with a 116 offensive rating (9.5 points higher than the Thunder allowed on average during the playoffs coming into the game).
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June 11 at 8:30 PM ET at Gainbridge Fieldhouse After the Pacers went into Oklahoma City and split a pair of games with the Thunder, the 2025 NBA Finals shifts to Indianapolis this week, as Gainbridge Fieldhouse hosts Game 3 on Wednesday and Game 4 on Friday.