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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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for June 17th, 2025. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Dave Giffour here with Zena Keda and S. Baraheni. |
| 0:14.0 | Coming up, the Thunder are up, three games to two. |
| 0:18.0 | Jdub had a huge game. |
| 0:19.0 | We got Andrew Schlicht live from the arena. |
| 0:21.5 | Lots to talk about after game five. |
| 0:30.7 | Good morning, guys. |
| 0:32.4 | Good morning, everybody out there. |
| 0:34.3 | The Oklahoma City Thunder pickup a pivotal win in game five of the NBA final series. |
| 0:44.0 | And guys, who how often does a team win game five and go on to win the title? |
| 0:51.5 | Hell of a game. |
| 0:53.3 | 75% of the time, actually. |
| 0:55.7 | Got the number right here. |
| 0:56.7 | I knew you had an answer for me, yes, because I did not have the number in front of me. |
| 0:59.7 | I appreciate that. |
| 1:01.1 | And this is why I stayed quiet. |
| 1:03.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.2 | Again, another electric game in the series, you know, the thunder controlled most of this one. |
| 1:10.7 | But we did get a furious |
| 1:12.2 | Pacers comeback. They got it to as much as, you know, within two. And then the Thunder just |
| 1:17.9 | stepped on the gas again. And I think the guy we got to start with J-dub, Jalen Williams just |
| 1:23.3 | had a ridiculous game, 40 points, 14 or 25 from the field. |
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