SGA, Thunder comeback in 4th to stun Pacers
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🗓️ 14 June 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 15 of his 35 points in a fourth quarter comeback as the Thunder take game four from the Pacers and tie the NBA Finals at two games a piece. Dave DuFour and Andrew Schlecht give their instant reaction to Shai’s excellence in the fourth quarter and how the Thunder managed their comeback. Then, Samson Folk from “Basketball, She Wrote” and Dave discuss the Pacers successes and their fourth quarter collapse before looking ahead to game five.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Andrew Schlecht & Samson Folk
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily, special NBA Finals edition for June 14th, 2025. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Dave Before here with Andrew Schleck coming up. |
| 0:16.5 | Ooh, the Thunder win one that we thought they were going to lose. |
| 0:19.7 | And the series is now tied two games apiece. |
| 0:22.4 | And I'm going to talk to Samson Folk after the break about what happened to the Pacers and how they collapsed in the fourth quarter. |
| 0:32.3 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:35.9 | Good morning, Andrews saying that for real because it's real late in Oklahoma City. How about those thunder? The thunder pulled little pacers and have a comeback win in a game, Andrew, that I thought they were definitely going to lose and I thought the finals were done. |
| 0:55.6 | How about that? |
| 0:57.0 | They pulled one out. |
| 0:58.2 | That was a championship sort of win. |
| 1:00.0 | That's one that you hang your hat on. |
| 1:02.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:03.1 | I mean, the way that they closed that game, it didn't look anything like the rest of the game |
| 1:08.8 | at all. |
| 1:09.2 | No. |
| 1:09.6 | Because if you watch that game, the Pacers owned it. |
| 1:12.3 | They owned that game up until really the last three minutes of it. |
| 1:16.5 | And the Thunder just went on what felt like an improbable run. |
| 1:20.2 | So from the 258 mark until the end of the game, |
| 1:23.7 | the Thunder went on a 12 to one run where the, the Pacers missed all five of their |
| 1:28.8 | field goals. |
| 1:30.2 | The one point was a Ben Matherin free throw in which he missed all the other ones. |
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