To say everything means more in the NBA Finals would be stating the obvious. In the Finals, the league's finest battle to win an ever-elusive championship. The

After defeating the Oklahoma City Thunder, 116-107, on Wednesday to take a 2-1 lead in the NBA Finals, the Indiana Pacers, who started the season as a 66-1 title long shot and started the playoffs at 80-1,

Amid criticism for the look and feel of the NBA Finals, commissioner Adam Silver has simply said "we'll look at it."

Tyrese Haliburton, once a heartbroken fan watching Rick Carlisle's Mavericks win the 2011 NBA Finals, now leads Carlisle's Indiana Pacers in a significant playoff run. At 25, Haliburton faces the coach who shattered his childhood fandom,

The Oklahoma City Thunder always respond. No team has been better after a loss this season, and that trend continued on Friday when Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led his bunch on a fourth-quarter comeback to defeat the Indiana Pacers,

These moments show top-level skill ... and Rick Barry made it look easy Only nine times in NBA history has a team won in the Finals in four games. This is known as a "sweep."

At times, it's hard to remember this is the first NBA Finals for Hamilton's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of the Oklahoma City Thunder. The league MVP just had a pair of debut Finals games like nobody in league history,

THE 2025 NBA Finals are already being called one of the most historic in decades. For the first time since the NBA-ABA merger in 1976, a completely new champion will be crowned. Neither of the two finalists — the Oklahoma City Thunder or the Indiana Pacers — has won a title in the modern NBA era.