NBA Finals Game 3 Reaction: Pacers Make A Loud Statement

Brian Windhorst & The Hoop Collective

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🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Brian Windhorst is joined by NBA champion Iman Shumpert to react live to Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Indiana Pacers. The guys talk the huge game from the Pacers’ bench, Haliburton stepping up, what went wrong for SGA, what adjustments the Thunder need to make, where the series goes from here and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Hoop Collective podcast.
0:07.0	We talk about the NBA, and we are here on the court at GameBridge Fieldhouse.
0:13.0	Immediately after the Pacers 116-107 Game 3 victory to take a 2-1 series lead.
0:21.4	I am here with 2016 NBA champion, Emon Schumper.
0:26.0	Shump?
0:27.5	Tasters are up 2-1.
0:28.6	They're two wins from their first ever NBA championship.
0:31.4	Well, we now know the gentleman's suite we once talked about might be out of the question.
0:38.4	What if it's the Pacers?
0:39.7	It might just be the other way.
0:41.9	I don't see that, but yeah.
0:43.9	But I see this going seven now.
0:46.1	I think it got legs.
0:47.1	I think it's great for basketball.
0:48.8	I think the fans are going to have a lot more fun with it.
0:51.5	Everybody was talking about how this was two small market teams,
0:54.8	but I think this is what you want to see as far as a war. This is a chess match. This is
1:00.4	adjustment, game in, game out. This is pressure on both the stars that are mentioned in this
1:06.8	conversation between SGA and Tyrese Halliburton, and I feel like they're living up to the caller.
1:12.9	Yeah, look, let me just say right now, if anybody wants to talk about the ratings, and maybe that's your job, go ahead and do it.
1:18.7	If you need to get your point off, go ahead and get your point off.
1:23.1	If someone's talking about the ratings, they're not serious people.
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