The Thunder were supposed to dominate the Pacers, and their inability to do so became the very thing that validates their championship. Read more »
Indiana Pacers Analysis
NBA Finals, Game 7 Review: Thunder Win Title With Long-Term Window Over Short-Term Thinking
NBA Finals, Game 6 Review: Pacers Win The Margins
The Pacers were expected to need to steal games to stay in the series. Instead, they blew out the Thunder with a perfect night to force a Game 7. Read more »
2025 NBA Finals, Game 5 Review: Jalen Williams Leads Thunder To One Win From Title
Great players make teams good, good players make teams great. Read more »
2025 NBA Finals, Game 4 Review: Oklahoma City's Blood-And-Guts Win
A seven-point deficit entering the fourth quarter of a road game on the cusp of going down 3-1 might not be quite Carlos Alcaraz coming back from triple championship point, but it's the NBA Finals equivalent. Read more »
The Pacers Are At Home In The NBA Finals
It's not all explosive comebacks and hothouse conquests. The Pacers can win normal games, too, even against a 68-win team. Read more »
2025 NBA Finals, Game 3 Review: Role Players Unlock The Star
T.J. McConnell and Bennedict Mathurin flipped Game 3 and possibly the series by finding ways to neutralize the Thunder defense and giving Tyrese Haliburton the space to be the star he can be. Read more »
2025 NBA Finals, Game 2 Review: OKC's Depth And Clip Art Larry OB
The Thunder demonstrated they have both the best player in the series and also the best depth, which puts the Pacers in a difficult situation even after stealing Game 1. Read more »
2025 NBA Finals, Game 1 Review: 19 Turnovers Vs. 0.3 Seconds Of Game Lead
The Thunder made the Pacers feel the uniqueness and intensity of their defense before the Pacers made the Thunder feel the uniqueness and intensity of their resilience. Read more »
OKC Vs. Indy Is A Basketball Science Experiment
The Thunder play a uniquely suffocating defense that has stifled every opponent, but the Pacers might be the one team that can crack it. Read more »
Tyrese Haliburton Is Underrated
It's because of how Tyrese Haliburton sees and enacts the game that his team is more a weather system than a collection of men. Read more »
The Entropic Indiana Pacers
Tyrese Haliburton is a System Player in that the system flows from him. It is his vision of basketball that defines how his team plays. Read more »
Ten-Year NBA Net Rating Rankings (Infographics For All 30 Teams)
The Thunder finished the 24-25 season with the best Net Rating in the NBA, ahead of the Cavaliers who jumped from 13th a season ago. Read more »
The Realest: Tyrese Haliburton And The Indiana Pacers
For Indiana to capitalize on their roster's collective goodness, Tyrese Haliburton will have to embrace his individual greatness. Read more »
How The Pacers Became The NBA's 'Second Draft' Oasis
Trading for Tyrese Haliburton was the most extreme and important example of Indiana's team-building strategy - one that takes advantage of a market inefficiency and could become a model for teams going forward. Read more »
2024 NBA Playoff Capsules (Conference Finals)
Previewing Wolves/Mavericks and Celtics/Pacers. Read more »
Ten-Year NBA Net Rating Rankings (Infographics For All 30 Teams)
The Celtics finished in the top spot in Net Rating for the second straight season, while the Thunder jumped up from 28th to 14th to second. Read more »
The Pacers Can Now Dream Beyond Pyrrhic Victories
Tyrese Haliburton is so accommodating and Pascal Siakam is so specific that it creates an unexpected congruence. They're not so much complementary as ancillary. Read more »
Tyrese Haliburton And The Pacers Really Want To Go Fast
Once the Pacers get opponents to play their style, the bet is that they'll be better at playing that way. This is partly because of the hours of logged practice time, but mostly because they have Tyrese Haliburton. Read more »
NBA's Top Wing Trios Ranked
We've ranked every team's wing corps from 1 to 30 based on the top three wings' production, upside and versatility. Read more »
Ten-Year NBA Net Rating Rankings (Infographics For All 30 Teams)
The Celtics finished first in Net Rating ahead of the Cavaliers, who jumped up from 13th last season and 28th as recently as 2021. Read more »
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