The Oklahoma City Thunder and Indiana Pacers will square off for one last time on Sunday in Game 7 of the 2025 NBA Finals. Their thrilling series has far exceeded expectations, and just seven total points separate the two teams through the first six games.
This is the first time the Finals have gone the distance since 2016, when the Cleveland Cavaliers completed their historic 3-1 comeback to defeat the 73-win Golden State Warriors. The Thunder won 68 games this season, which is the most wins by any team since that Warriors group. Will they meet the same fate?
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Ahead of what should be a fascinating winner-take-all affair, here’s a look at some NBA Finals Game 7 trends, and what they may tell us about Sunday.
Expect a low-scoring affair …
The Thunder and Pacers were two of the best offensive teams in the league this season, and have been racking up points this series. Both teams have crossed the 100-point threshold in five of the six games, and the only time a team failed to reach that mark was the Thunder in Game 6, when they put up 91 points.
History says that the trend will not continue. No team has reached 100 points in a Finals Game 7 since 1988, when the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Detroit Pistons, 108-105. On the last five occasions that the Finals went the distance, the most points any team has scored is 95 by the Miami Heat in 2013.
In the 19 previous Finals Game 7s, both teams have scored 100 points six times, but only four times in regulation. And of those six previous instances, four of them came in the 1950s or…
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