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Thunder get prime seat accumulation successful Game 2 arsenic Alex Caruso and Aaron Wiggins harvester for 38 points and 9 3-pointers successful the win. (1:54)
Associated Press
Jun 8, 2025, 10:52 PM ET
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 34 points, Alex Caruso added 20 disconnected the seat and the Oklahoma City Thunder bushed the Indiana Pacers 123-107 connected Sunday nighttime to necktie the NBA Finals astatine 1 crippled apiece.
Jalen Williams scored 19, Aaron Wiggins had 18 and Chet Holmgren finished with 15 for the Thunder. It was the franchise's archetypal finals crippled triumph since the opener of the 2012 bid against Miami.
Tyrese Haliburton scored 17 for Indiana, which erased a 15-point, fourth-quarter shortage successful Game 1 but ne'er made a propulsion connected Sunday. Myles Turner scored 16 and Pascal Siakam added 15 for the Pacers, the archetypal squad since Miami successful 2013 to not person a 20-point scorer successful the archetypal 2 games of the finals.
Game 3 is Wednesday astatine Indianapolis, successful what volition beryllium the archetypal finals crippled successful that metropolis successful 25 years.
Gilgeous-Alexander's archetypal handbasket of the nighttime was a history-maker: It gave him 3,000 points connected the season, including the regular play and playoffs. And aboriginal successful Game 2, helium passed New York's Jalen Brunson (514) arsenic the starring wide scorer successful these playoffs.
But the existent milestone for the MVP came a mates hours later, erstwhile helium and astir everybody other connected the Thunder got a finals triumph for the archetypal time.
A 19-2 tally successful the 2nd 4th turned what was a six-point crippled into a 23-point Thunder lead. It mightiness person seemed wobbly a mates of times -- an contiguous 10-0 rebuttal by the Pacers made it 52-39, and Indiana was wrong 13 again aft Andrew Nembhard's layup with 7:09 near successful the 3rd -- but the Thunder pb was ne'er successful superior doubt.
With the sound level successful the gathering often topping 100 decibels -- a chainsaw is 110 dB, for examination purposes -- the Thunder did what they've done beauteous overmuch each season. They came disconnected a loss, this clip a 111-110 decision successful Game 1, and blew idiosyncratic retired arsenic their response.
Including the NBA Cup rubric game, which doesn't number successful immoderate standings, the Thunder are present 18-2 this play erstwhile coming disconnected a loss. Of those 18 wins, 12 person been by treble digits.
