Jalen Williams drops 40, Thunder take 3-2 Finals lead
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🗓️ 17 June 2025
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Summary
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Jalen Williams combined for 71 points as the Thunder take game five from the Pacers and put themselves one win away from a title. Dave DuFour, Zena Keita, and Es Baraheni give their reaction to the Thunder win, J Dub’s breakout performance, and debate whether the series is over. Then, Andrew Schlecht joins the gang postgame to talk about the OKC crowd and the dominant Thunder defense.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Zena Keita, Es Baraheni, & Andrew Schlecht
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:43.1 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for June 17th, 2025. |
| 0:46.1 | I'm Dave Giffour here with Zena Keda and S. Baraheni. |
| 0:48.8 | Coming up, the Thunder are up. |
| 0:50.0 | Three games to two. |
| 0:51.5 | J. Dub had a huge game. We got Andrew Select live from the arena. |
| 0:53.9 | Lots to talk about after game five. |
| 1:02.8 | Good morning, guys. |
| 1:04.8 | Good morning, everybody out there. |
| 1:06.7 | The Oklahoma City Thunder pickup a pivotal win in game five of the NBA final series. |
| 1:16.8 | And guys, who how often does a team win game five and go on to win the title? |
| 1:23.9 | Hell of a game. |
| 1:25.7 | 75% of the time, actually the number right here for me yes because |
| 1:29.8 | i did not have the number in front of me i appreciate that when it is and this is why i stay quiet |
| 1:35.0 | yeah again another electric game uh in the series um you know the the thunder controlled most of this |
| 1:42.8 | one but we did get a furious pacer's comeback they got it to as as much as you know, the thunder controlled most of this one, but we did get a furious Pacers comeback. |
| 1:45.8 | They got it to as much as, you know, within two. And then the thunder just stepped on the gas |
| 1:51.1 | again. And I think the guy we got to start with J-dub, Jalen Williams just had a ridiculous |
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