TIMELY AWAKENING – Oklahoma City Thunder “SINK” the Indiana Pacers in the Second Half – No Room for Mistakes in the NBA Finals!
This has been Oklahoma City’s formula all season: Lose one game, respond in the next. And in Game 2 of the NBA Finals 2025, the Oklahoma City Thunder stuck to that script perfectly.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led the way with 34 points, Alex Caruso added 20 off the bench, and the Thunder defeated the Indiana Pacers 123-107 on Sunday night to tie the NBA Finals at 1-1.
Jalen Williams scored 19, Aaron Wiggins had 18, and Chet Holmgren added 15 in what became the Thunder’s first win in an NBA Finals game since 2012. That last victory came in the opener against the Miami Heat.
“We did some things good tonight. We did some things bad,” Gilgeous-Alexander said. “We’ve got to be able to get better and be ready for Game 3.”
The Pacers, led by Tyrese Haliburton with 17 points, never found their rhythm in Game 2. Myles Turner chipped in with 16 points, and Pascal Siakam added 15. Indiana is now the first team since the 2013 Miami Heat to not have a 20-point scorer in either of the first two NBA Finals games.
NBA Finals Game 3 Set for Indianapolis
Game 3 of the 2025 NBA Finals is scheduled for Wednesday in Indianapolis, marking the city’s first time hosting an NBA Finals game in 25 years.
Gilgeous-Alexander’s first bucket of the night made history: It marked his 3,000th point this season – regular season and playoffs combined. He later surpassed Jalen Brunson as the playoffs’ top scorer with 518 points.
But more importantly, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the rest of the Thunder core secured their first win on the NBA’s biggest stage.
Oklahoma City Thunder Respond With Dominant Game 2 Performance
A massive 19-2 second-quarter run turned a tight contest into a 23-point Thunder advantage. While the Pacers responded with a 10-0 surge and trimmed the lead to 13 at one point, Oklahoma City maintained control throughout.
With crowd noise exceeding 100 decibels, the Thunder executed their trademark response – bouncing back strong after a loss. Following a heartbreaking 111-110 defeat in Game 1, they stormed back with authority in Game 2.
Including their NBA In-Season Tournament title game, Oklahoma City is now 18-2 after a loss this season. Even more impressive: 12 of those 18 wins have come by double digits.
News
My Parents Humiliated Me at My Father’s Retirement Dinner Then My Husband Revealed Who He Really Was
Chapter 1: The Nobody My name is Diana Parker. I was thirty-two years old when my mother stood in front of 150 people at my father’s retirement party, leaned into a microphone, and made my marriage the punchline of the…
MY MOTHER TOLD ME NOT TO BRING MY SON TO EASTER AGAIN—THEN MY 13-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER STOOD UP AND SAID WHAT NONE OF THE ADULTS WOULD
Chapter 1: Don’t Bring Him It happened at a rented folding table covered in deviled egg crumbs, pastel napkins, plastic forks, and the shiny foil wrappers from Easter chocolate. The April wind moved through the dogwood trees behind my aunt’s…
MY FAMILY USED ME AS AN ATM, Until They Sold My Anniversary Gift and Learned I Was Done Paying
Chapter 1: The Good Daughter The smell of peppermint rinse and sterile latex was the permanent weather of my life. As a dentist, I spent my days working inside the smallest rooms of other people’s fear. I knew the exact…
MY HUSBAND GAVE ME AN “ALLOWANCE,” HIS MOTHER AUDITED MY GROCERY RECEIPTS—THEN THEY DROVE TO MOCK MY “TRAILER PARK” HOUSEWARMING
Chapter 1: The $3 Receipt Friday night in the Miller house always felt like a trial. Not dinner. Not family time. A trial. The kitchen table, a scuffed pine monster Linda insisted was “perfectly good,” was covered in crumpled receipts,…
MY NEWBORN WAS TURNING BLUE—MY HUSBAND LEFT FOR HAWAII AND SAID I WAS “JUST DRAMATIC”
Chapter 1: Blue Lips “Stop being so dramatic, Elena. He’s just coughing.” My mother-in-law said it like I had interrupted her breakfast, not like my three-day-old son was turning blue in my arms. Beatrice Vance stood in the middle of…
MY BILLIONAIRE FATHER DISOWNED ME AT MY OWN WEDDING—HE HAD NO IDEA THE “TRASH” HE MOCKED WAS ABOUT TO BECOME HIS BIGGEST REGRE
Chapter 1: Disowned Have you ever wondered what it feels like to have a billionaire father? Trust me, it is not the fairy tale people imagine. My name is Fiona Ashford. I was twenty-eight years old when my father stood…
End of content
No more pages to load
