WEBVTT - What's Wright - Thunder-Pacers Game 6 Reaction: Indiana BLOWS OUT OKC, who wins Game 7? 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.640 Welcome in What's Right with Nick Right Game six NBA 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:06.640 Finals reaction show, and this is not the show I 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:10.440 expected to be doing. As Bet of the Year goes 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:15.680 down in Flames. I have been just wildly wrong, and 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:18.360 at this point I have to admit it's not just 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:23.639 been I have been saying. It hasn't been disrespect to 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:26.759 the Pacers, and it certainly hasn't been intentional disrespect to 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:31.080 the Pacers, it has been massive respect to the Thunder. 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:34.720 As to why I thought this series would be done 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:40.320 in probably five at most six, why I thought yesterday, 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:44.040 even though the Pacers were at home, even though we 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:48.000 have seen the Thunder in these playoffs kind of play 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:52.080 around with one of these Game sixes, I thought that 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:55.000 this was going to be a Thunder route, and I 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:58.800 laid out a very specific way I thought the Pacers 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:01.520 would have to win, which is, you know, you're not 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:04.000 gonna be able to slow down the Thunders offense, so 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:06.480 you're just gonna have that out score them. Miles Turner's 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:08.840 gonna have to have a huge game, and basically everything 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:12.760 was wrong. Miles Turner went one for nine. You did 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:18.520 absolutely stifle the Thunder offense. You made the Thunder. Look young, 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:23.800 You made Jet look like he was not ready for 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:28.760 the moment. Jalen Williams J. Dubb has the worst plus 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:34.360 minus in Finals history, a nice ripe minus forty for 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:40.560 the game. The league MVP Shay, who scored twenty plus 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:44.920 in like eighty something consecutive games, barely gets over that 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:50.800 threshold with just twenty one, and the Pacers in despite 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:57.960 no one breaking twenty until the waning moments of garbage 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:00.880 time and Obi Top and Jumper put him at twenty. 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:06.680 The Pacers basically wire to wire the Oklahoma City Thunder. 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:15.240 That game was ten to two Oklahoma City and then 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:17.760 the rest of the because what was the halftime score. 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:21.919 Halftime score was sixty four to forty two, so the 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:25.880 rest after the ten to to start, Indiana beat them 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:30.240 in the first half sixty two to thirty two. And 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:36.800 now we have the twentieth Game seven in NBA Finals history, 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:42.080 just the first game seven since the twenty sixteen Cabs 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:46.519 against the Warriors, and we are one game away from 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:52.359 what is, in my opinion, without a doubt, the greatest 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:57.240 upset in NBA history, and it would be in the 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:02.160 you know, per the bookmakers tied with the Pistons beating 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:09.399 the Lakers in four. But that series by the Lakers 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:11.760 were all of a sudden. They were an old team 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:15.600 that was dealing with injuries by that series, and now 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:19.639 they trounced the Lakers. But this, to me is more shocking. 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:25.560 A Thunder team that was absolutely rolling at every step 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:31.680 of the season, that took back control of the series 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:36.000 in Game four, I thought put their foot on the 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:42.120 Pacers throat in Game five. To just get annihilated like that, 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:50.680 and to now be on the brink of what would 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:58.320 be an all time missed opportunity and a collapse for 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:02.240 the Ages. I understand that we have. There's been plenty 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:03.960 of teams that have been up three to two in 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:06.440 the finals and lost. I get that now. There have 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:10.920 only been four teams to lose a Game seven of 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:14.120 the Finals at home. They would be the fifth. But 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:19.520 the one three to one comeback we've seen in the Finals, 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:24.039 it was part collapsed by Golden State and part the 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:28.400 greatest player of all time just got to his greatest 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:32.559 peak of all time over a week of basketball. That's 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:38.560 not what this is. It's not that holy shit, Pascal 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:45.920 Siakam or Tyrese Haliburton are just activating a new level. 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:52.320 It is the Pacers as a whole are last night 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:56.719 where the hungrier team the obviously the more desperate team, 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:01.279 but the more put together team. Now, what I will 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:06.840 say is, thus far this series and maybe this is 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:12.400 something the Thunder can lean on, thus far, this series 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:18.719 has gone beat four beat like then the Thunder Nuggets 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:23.880 series did. Game one, Thunder Nuggets Thunder loose on a 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:28.040 buzzer beater. Game one Thunder Pacers Thunder loose on a 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:33.479 buzzer beater. Game two Thundernuggets, Thunder blow out the Nuggets 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:38.400 by that one by forty. Game two of the Finals, 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:43.640 Thunder blow out the Pacers. Game three, the Thunder loose 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:49.799 a heartbreaker in overtime in Denver. Game three, the Thunder 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:57.520 loose tough game in Indiana. Game four, it looks like, 0:05:57.560 --> 0:05:59.920 oh my god, or the Thunder gonna go down three one, 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:03.960 and they kind of claw their way back and win 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:07.200 the game by five. Game four of this series, Oh 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.200 my God, or the Thunder gonna go down three to one, 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:13.719 they claw their way back and win by seven. Game 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:18.880 five of that series, the Thunder win by seven. In 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:22.040 round two. Game five of this series, the Thunder win 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:25.680 by eleven. And then Game six, the Thunder got blown 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:29.000 out in Denver and not to this degree. And Game 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:31.920 six of this series the Thunder got blown out. So 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:38.560 they have this exact pacing of a series. And they 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:43.320 then came out and beat the Nuggets by thirty two 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:50.159 points to move on. And you could say, and in 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:52.719 that series is one of the Nuggets key players was 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:56.080 dealing with an injury and Aaron Gordon and in this series, 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:58.760 Tyrese Haliburn's dealing with an injury. He sure didn't look 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:03.640 hurt last night, as Hugh. That was the best beginning 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:07.280 of a game halliburtons had all series. He didn't end 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:12.320 up having to play huge minutes. And now he's got 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:16.880 two more days, and all of a sudden, the Thunder 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:19.480 have two days to think about the fact that, oh 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:27.120 my god, whether they were allowing their minds to drift 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:34.240 there or not, dynasty was thrown around. Obviously, Shay's place 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:38.679 in basketball history was being thrown around. We threw around, 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:44.600 Jalen Williams, Jadub being comped to Scottie Pippen, all of it. 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:51.240 And now you go into a Game seven where who 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:57.000 on the Thunder is feeling great about how they're playing, 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:07.400 and the Chet thing is to me a massive red flag. 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:11.480 Now part of that, I will admit might be confirmation 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:15.559 biased for me because I have always been probably more 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:21.240 Chet skeptical than most. But Chet was brutal last night. 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:25.960 Four points, two of nine from the field, no blocks, 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:33.760 no impact on the game. Hartenstein wasn't brutal, but no 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:40.920 impact on the game. So you're two bigs. Not played 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:46.360 off the court necessarily, but just not it. No thrust, 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:53.920 and that the way the Pacers like there was there 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:57.520 was a the start of the second half was really 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:01.160 fascinating to me. And I apologie guys for bouncing around. 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:03.560 It's what I'm gonna do. It's kind of how I 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:05.760 do it. If Demonsy's not here, I don't have like 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:09.880 a regular train of thought. Also, by the way we 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:13.920 are going to do at the end of this podcast, 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:17.160 we'll do it as quickly as we can, but I 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:20.040 think it'll be a good time capsule. And I also 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:26.400 think it's just a good way to pay tribute to 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:31.000 the fact that there's only been twenty of these in 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:33.840 the history of the league. Game seven of the Finals, 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:39.360 where we're gonna bang bang bang, go through all twenty, 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:41.840 it'll be less than a minute on each. It might 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:45.760 be ten seconds on some of them, but fifteen of 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:52.720 the twenty are really historic touchstone moments in league history, 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:59.640 and almost all of the contemporary ones have either and 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:03.240 i ic moment or are the defining moment of an 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:06.680 iconic player's career, and we're getting one for the first 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:09.040 time in nearly a decade. But to get back to 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:13.240 what I was saying, down twenty two to start the 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:19.160 second half, here are well up twenty two, I should say, 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:25.720 here are the Pacers possessions. Siaka miss jumper, turner, miss jumper, 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:33.160 turner miss three, Haliburton miss three, uh, Siakam missed layup, 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:38.400 Nie Smith, miss jumper, nim Hard miss jumper, turnover Nie Smith. 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:46.080 Those opening four minutes, the Pacers got nothing at the 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:51.360 rim except for Siakam, and he missed turned the ball over, 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:59.840 got no steals, drew no fouls, or drew one foul, 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:03.880 but was off the ball. That was if the Thunder 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:07.360 were if they had come into the game over confident, 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:11.120 and then they have halftime to reset with the goal 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:16.320 being guys. We came back from basically ten down in 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:19.839 the fourth quarter game five or Game four, pardon me, 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:27.800 let's just get twenty two to sixteen by the under 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:34.240 seven time out and reframe the game that was. Those 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:44.520 were their opportunities, but unfortunately for them, their offensive possessions 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:48.720 were some of the ugliest basketball the Thunder have played 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:54.520 all year. A late shot clock lou Dort three, an 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:59.800 early shot clock lou Dort three, a turnover by Shay 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:05.160 so I guess there was one turnover, A Jalen Williams 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:13.280 Jada missed three, Crusoe blocked at the rim, a bad 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:18.640 miss by check from three, another lou Dort missed three, 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:21.400 and then Halliburton hits the layup in Oklahoma City calls 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:27.680 time out. No great possessions, no shots from the league MVP. 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:34.080 The team was shook, and I don't know how this 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:39.400 is going to land with the Pacers. I'm sorry with 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:43.640 the Thunder for Game seven. I still believe the Thunder 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:46.960 are going to win. I still believe the Thunder are 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:52.840 the right side. But hand up here, I have just 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:56.840 been dead ass wrong on a lot these playoffs, and 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:03.160 I have been wildly wrong this uh, these NBA Finals, 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:10.320 and it is just such a unique game where who 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:19.800 on the Pacers played great, played a great game. I don't. 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:22.800 I guess you could say Obi Toppin hit a bunch 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:28.480 of big threes, scored twenty. I I thought Siakam was 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:31.240 gonna have to score thirty. He scored sixteen. Now I 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:35.280 understand all of this is warped a bit by the 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:39.360 fact that in the fourth quarter, you know, I can 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:42.440 pull it up real quick in the fourth quarter, the 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:46.600 Thunder or the Pacers are the Thunder didn't play any 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:49.200 of their starters at all in the fourth quarter, and 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:52.280 the Pacers barely played their guys any in the fourth quarter. 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:59.240 So this was a three quarter game. But still offensively, 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:02.880 nozh one on the Thunder on the Pacers had a 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:13.080 monster game defensively, they all did, and it was all 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.439 of the Thunder or the Pacers. I keep getting the wrong. 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:21.840 I apologize Pacers offensive X factors. Well, their two biggest 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:25.840 offensive X factors, Mattherin and Turner combined to go two 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:31.000 for fifteen over eight from three. They won. Anyway, That's 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:35.760 what is so terrifying for Oklahoma City. Weird shit happens 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:42.040 in game sevens and there's never been a player that's 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:45.560 walked into a game seven more do for a big 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:50.960 night than Miles Turner. It just hasn't like. And I'm 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:53.800 gonna keep banging the Miles Turner drum because I believe 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:56.760 in his talent, I believe in his ability, and he 0:14:56.920 --> 0:15:00.600 has been impactful for them defensively and as a rim 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:07.440 protector the last few games. They're only like consistent other 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:12.320 than Siakam offensive forces McConnell who McConnell has got his 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:16.480 game straight out of the Sean Livingston playbook of I'm 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:21.280 going to somehow awkwardly get my way to a ten 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:25.840 twelve fourteen foot jumper. It's going to be they have 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:30.040 very different releases, but I'm going to have I'm the 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.960 only player in the league that shoots the way I shoot, 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:38.720 and it's going to feel automatic. And McConnell with another 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:43.040 nice six for twelve, twelve points, nine rebounds, six assists 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:48.920 for Steels. What a damn game by him. And so 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:54.280 that's how we got here. And I know it sounds 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:56.520 like from everything I'm saying, like, so I'm going for 0:15:56.600 --> 0:16:01.280 the Pacers. 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That's got to be it. 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:54.240 And by the way, if you go back, and we're 0:18:54.280 --> 0:19:00.200 going to do this in longer form in a few minutes, 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:07.679 but if we go back through the game seven's the 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:15.359 guy who the last. My god, it's close to ten 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:20.240 when we've walked off the court after that Game seven. 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:26.680 For a lot of people, the best player alives been 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:34.000 walking off with the championship. Lebron sixteen, Lebron thirteen, Kobe 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:36.920 twenty ten. It was a debate, but he just won 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:39.600 back to back championships. I wasn't good in that Game seven, 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:43.040 but a lot of people obviously believe Kobe was best 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:49.640 player alive than five Duncan ninety four, a Team eighty eight, 0:19:50.640 --> 0:20:06.480 Magic eighty four Bird like those Game sevens with and 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:08.600 I'm not picking on Kobe, but he was just an 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:13.240 outlier where he was six of twenty four those game sevens. 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:17.600 The through line has been a guy who either had 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:22.520 a stranglehold on best player alive or a guy who 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:31.879 was arguably best player alive he took it. There have 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:38.640 been a few great ones where in twenty sixteen and 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:44.160 in I guess you could argue ninety four and certainly 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:47.920 in eighty four where the two guys who were arguing 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:53.760 best player alive bird Magic a keeam Ewing Ewing really 0:20:53.800 --> 0:20:55.760 wasn't quite that class. But if he had won, maybe 0:20:55.800 --> 0:21:00.480 we'd been saying it. And then obviously Lebron Curry, it's 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:05.080 like it's levitating above the arena, the figurative title belt. 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:08.119 Can you go grab it? Now, that's not the case 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:10.119 here because there's no one on the Pacers that if 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:12.720 they win, we're like, Bam, that guy's the best player 0:21:12.760 --> 0:21:21.359 in the league. But that's what that's what's in front 0:21:21.400 --> 0:21:24.359 of Shad Now. He can't do it on his own, 0:21:24.800 --> 0:21:27.240 and all year long, as great as he's been, he's 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:30.880 never had to do it on his own. But that 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:36.880 Thunder defense needs to wake back up and those Thunder 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:41.719 role players. I think j will be good. Let me 0:21:41.760 --> 0:21:45.440 say that on the front end. The forty piece he 0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:48.680 dropped in Game five. He's going to be back at home. 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:52.920 He seems so even keeled. I think he'll be good. 0:21:53.240 --> 0:21:59.600 I think Shay'll be good. I don't know who else 0:21:59.720 --> 0:22:06.280 is going to be good. And I am interested because 0:22:06.320 --> 0:22:09.760 this I think does tilt things in the Thunder's favor. 0:22:13.760 --> 0:22:21.960 Refs never want a Game seven to be choppy and 0:22:22.080 --> 0:22:27.119 a bunch of fouls, And I thought early in this game, 0:22:28.280 --> 0:22:30.199 I thought it was a very fair whistle and it 0:22:30.240 --> 0:22:32.840 wasn't like a crazy amount of free throws in either direction. 0:22:33.359 --> 0:22:35.480 But I thought they made it pretty clear early in 0:22:35.520 --> 0:22:39.600 this game that they're gonna call it maybe a little 0:22:39.680 --> 0:22:41.679 tighter than the Thunder would like. And I think it 0:22:41.760 --> 0:22:50.320 impacted Dort and Crusoe's ability defensively, and that obviously huge 0:22:50.359 --> 0:23:02.440 advantage because of that to Indiana. But if the Thunder 0:23:03.920 --> 0:23:15.800 don't win this championship, I just don't it feels like 0:23:16.200 --> 0:23:27.440 such a crushing, crushing blow and all reference twenty sixteen. Again, yes, 0:23:27.520 --> 0:23:29.840 they had won seventy three games and they were up 0:23:29.880 --> 0:23:32.480 three to one, but they had a title in their 0:23:32.520 --> 0:23:43.919 back pocket. And so when we think about the shocking 0:23:44.119 --> 0:23:56.520 finals defeats, the most and the most crushing Finals defeats, 0:23:57.000 --> 0:24:03.880 nineteen sixty nine is the answer to that and more 0:24:03.960 --> 0:24:07.240 on that game. Oddly in a bit, but Celtics over 0:24:07.320 --> 0:24:13.800 Lakers in Russell's final game ever because it was like, 0:24:13.960 --> 0:24:16.560 I guess, you know, we're never We're never going to 0:24:16.640 --> 0:24:19.359 have a better team. We're never going to be better positioned, 0:24:19.680 --> 0:24:22.040 We're never going to be a bigger favorite, and we 0:24:22.280 --> 0:24:26.240 still can't get over the hump. Now, that wouldn't be 0:24:26.280 --> 0:24:29.240 this because the Lakers lost the Celtics a half dozen 0:24:29.280 --> 0:24:36.160 times at that point or close to it. But this, 0:24:36.160 --> 0:24:43.760 this can be a just a seismic event, or it 0:24:43.800 --> 0:24:49.000 can be. Listen, we got a little ahead of ourselves 0:24:49.080 --> 0:24:53.400 in Game six. We were a little you know, thinking 0:24:53.440 --> 0:24:59.600 about the party and the celebration, and the Pacers said, 0:25:00.080 --> 0:25:03.919 you know, we're not laying down, and we knew we 0:25:03.960 --> 0:25:06.280 had that Game seven at home in our back pocket, 0:25:06.320 --> 0:25:13.480 but man, you better thing win. I this would be 0:25:17.119 --> 0:25:19.280 like another I'll cross sport. 0:25:23.000 --> 0:25:29.240 One of the biggest, the biggest upsets in recent Super 0:25:29.240 --> 0:25:35.400 Bowl history, the Giants and seven beating the Patriots. 0:25:36.160 --> 0:25:42.600 It's unfathomable. But for the most important parties with the 0:25:42.600 --> 0:25:46.879 Patriots other than Randy Moss, they had championships already, or 0:25:46.920 --> 0:25:51.159 when the Patriots beat the Rams in one, the Rams 0:25:51.160 --> 0:25:57.960 had won the championship two years prior. I'm I'm just 0:25:58.080 --> 0:26:02.840 kind of struggling to find and I'm sure it exists, 0:26:02.840 --> 0:26:09.240 but like this level of upset, the thunder were minus 0:26:09.400 --> 0:26:15.840 two thousand to win the title yesterday. They were minus 0:26:15.920 --> 0:26:21.440 seven hundred at the start of the series, and they 0:26:21.440 --> 0:26:24.760 were hell they were minus seven hundred after Game four. 0:26:27.320 --> 0:26:33.160 It just I don't know what it does to an 0:26:33.240 --> 0:26:38.000 organization if they don't win this. Meanwhile, if there has 0:26:38.200 --> 0:26:42.600 ever been a team that walks into a Game seven 0:26:44.880 --> 0:26:51.400 as crazy as this sounds, with no pressure, it's the Pacers. 0:26:52.480 --> 0:26:55.879 I don't know that that actually exists, but if it does, 0:26:56.359 --> 0:27:07.359 this is it. And so I I am anxious for 0:27:07.440 --> 0:27:10.679 the thunder and I don't even care, like I have 0:27:10.800 --> 0:27:18.119 no connection or affinity for I can't wait to see 0:27:18.119 --> 0:27:26.360 how Shaye handles it and to set that up. And 0:27:26.400 --> 0:27:29.680 this will be this will We're gonna the thing we're 0:27:29.720 --> 0:27:34.320 gonna do next we will clip as its own YouTube video. 0:27:35.040 --> 0:27:41.439 It will not do well on YouTube, however, for real 0:27:41.640 --> 0:27:46.479 diehard NBA fans, I hope for years it's kind of 0:27:46.520 --> 0:27:54.080 a something people stumble upon where they are searching for 0:27:54.160 --> 0:27:57.600 the history of game sevens in the NBA Finals, and 0:27:57.640 --> 0:27:59.880 then they watch the ten minutes or so we're about 0:27:59.880 --> 0:28:02.680 to do, because we'll go through all of them, and 0:28:02.720 --> 0:28:11.240 like I said, the vast majority have something iconic about them. 0:28:11.800 --> 0:28:14.440 But before we do that, a message from our friends 0:28:14.600 --> 0:28:17.280 at boost Mobile. 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But 0:29:24.160 --> 0:29:30.760 so I made kind of the I just went through 0:29:31.560 --> 0:29:38.320 this morning, the nineteen prior Game seven's in NBA history, 0:29:39.160 --> 0:29:42.560 and what's the what's better if I'm looking over here 0:29:42.640 --> 0:29:45.640 looking down, I'll look down because I obviously I don't 0:29:45.720 --> 0:29:49.960 have these set to memory with all the details. But 0:29:52.040 --> 0:29:56.760 here is to set the table for the twentieth Game 0:29:56.840 --> 0:30:02.280 seven in NBA Finals history. How we got here, so 0:30:02.360 --> 0:30:06.160 to speak. We will spend obviously less time on the 0:30:06.320 --> 0:30:11.000 very early ones, but if you want, if you're a 0:30:11.040 --> 0:30:15.720 sports history nerd like me, this should be fun. I'll 0:30:15.720 --> 0:30:19.560 try to go through the uninteresting ones as quickly as possible. 0:30:19.840 --> 0:30:23.720 First one ever nineteen fifty one, Rochester Royals beat the 0:30:23.760 --> 0:30:27.000 Knicks seventy nine to seventy five. Give you a context 0:30:27.880 --> 0:30:30.560 for how different the league was back then. Two different 0:30:30.600 --> 0:30:35.440 guys named Arnie started this basketball game, and the first 0:30:35.440 --> 0:30:38.120 ever kind of like hard luck star in the NBA, 0:30:38.760 --> 0:30:42.440 Max Zislovsky pardon me for the Knicks, was involved in 0:30:42.480 --> 0:30:47.240 that game. Nineteen fifty two, the Minneapolis Lakers beat the 0:30:47.360 --> 0:30:51.440 New York Knicks. That was, if it wasn't already official 0:30:51.480 --> 0:30:56.560 before the official arrival of the NBA's first true superstar, 0:30:56.680 --> 0:31:00.800 George Mikeen Miken averaged twenty two to eighteen for the series, 0:31:01.000 --> 0:31:03.280 and in that game seven had twenty two points in 0:31:03.400 --> 0:31:07.719 nineteen rebounds. Those same Minneapolis Lakers in nineteen fifty four 0:31:07.840 --> 0:31:12.440 beat the Syracuse Nationals eighty seven eighty. That's another Micing championship, 0:31:12.720 --> 0:31:16.239 his fifth ring and the league's first three peat and 0:31:16.280 --> 0:31:19.920 then one last one. That is really kind of the 0:31:20.200 --> 0:31:25.160 BC era of NBA basketball. The nineteen fifty five Syracuse 0:31:25.240 --> 0:31:28.560 Nationals beat the Fort Wayne Pistons ninety two to ninety one. 0:31:29.040 --> 0:31:32.720 We don't really have to get into it, but NBA 0:31:33.040 --> 0:31:36.360 history nerds know this. This might be fun for people 0:31:36.360 --> 0:31:39.880 who aren't. That game was probably rigged, and I don't 0:31:39.880 --> 0:31:42.640 mean rigged by the refs, I mean again allegedly possibly. 0:31:42.680 --> 0:31:46.000 I don't know who knows, it seems sure seems like 0:31:46.640 --> 0:31:52.200 the newspaper writers and the people who covered that game 0:31:52.600 --> 0:31:56.840 thought Fort Wayne through the game, they were on the take. 0:31:56.920 --> 0:31:59.240 And that was at a time when that stuff kind 0:31:59.240 --> 0:32:03.520 of happened as old CCNY thing. But so again, those 0:32:03.640 --> 0:32:07.400 four uh, you've got the first ever Game seven with 0:32:07.560 --> 0:32:10.200