NBA Finals Game 1 Preview
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🗓️ 5 June 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The NBA Finals tip-off tonight and Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni are on the ground in Oklahoma City for game one. Rylan Stiles, host of Locked On Thunder, joins the show to discuss the importance of the Thunder to the OKC community, how Sam Presti built the team, and what the Pacers need to do to win.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni & Rylan Stiles
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 5th, 2025. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Dave Before here with S. Barahenny. |
| 0:13.0 | Coming up, Ryland Stiles, who covers the Thunder for Sports Illustrated and the host of Locked on Thunder |
| 0:18.3 | joins us to talk all things, Thunder Pacers. |
| 0:25.9 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:27.4 | Good morning, guys. |
| 0:29.4 | NBA finals, game one is tonight. |
| 0:33.0 | Ryland Stiles is here. |
| 0:34.4 | He covers the Thunder, like I said, for Sports Illustrated and on the |
| 0:37.7 | Locked on Thunder podcast. Welcome to the show. Ryland, super excited to have you. Hope everything's |
| 0:42.3 | going well. I'm super excited to be here. I really appreciate you guys having me on. Love the show. |
| 0:47.0 | I was excited to hear about the show getting put together this year. And so I've been listening |
| 0:50.6 | ever since. That's awesome, man. Thank you. We've been having a blast covering the entire league and especially this Oklahoma |
| 0:58.3 | City Thunder team. |
| 0:59.3 | I mean, obviously the first year of the new show. |
| 1:01.8 | And this has sort of been the team of the show. |
| 1:04.3 | 68 wins. |
| 1:05.3 | It feels like every single episode, we've got a nugget or two on the Thunder. |
| 1:10.4 | What's it been like for you covering this Thunder team? |
| 1:13.4 | I know that you're a Thunder fan. |
| 1:15.2 | You know, that's how you got your start. |
| 1:16.4 | But what's it been like covering this Thunder team? |
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