Find out how the Oklahoma City Thunder won the 2025 NBA Finals in seven games against the Indiana Pacers. Check out analysis, highlights, MVPs, and all the details of the historic championship.
The Oklahoma City Thunder defeated the Indiana Pacers in seven games to win the 2024-25 NBA Finals and their first championship since the franchise moved to OKC. (since 2008-09).
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was named MVP of the 2025 NBA Finals.He is the first player to win the regular-season MVP and NBA title in the same season since Steph Curry in 2014-15.
It was a magical season for the Thunder, first in the postseason. OKC is the fourth team in NBA history to reach 84 wins in a single season., including the playoffs. OKC is also the second-youngest champion in the shot clock era (25.7), behind only the 1976-77 Trail Blazers, who had a weighted average age of 24.9.
The Conference Finals concluded with the Thunder defeating the Minnesota Timberwolves in five games in the West, advancing to the NBA finals for the first time since Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and others led the franchise there in 2012. That was the first Finals appearance in NBA history. Thunder (since 2008-09 when the franchise was the Seattle SuperSonics); they lost to the Heat in 5 games.
In the East, the the Pacers They came from fourth place in the conference to advance to the NBA finals for the second time; they surpassed the New York Knicks in six games in the Eastern Conference Finals. Indiana, one of 10 active franchises that have not won an NBA championship, lost to the Lakers in six games in the NBA finals 2000. The Pacers won three ABA championships (1970, 1972, 1973) before the merger with the NBA.
