The Oklahoma City Thunder have won their first-ever NBA championship title after dominating the Indiana Pacers at home, 103-91, in Game 7 of the 2025 NBA Finals on Sunday night.

After a historic regular season, the Thunder are a city of champions and they did it the OKC way. It is the 1st title in the OKC era and they are the youngest NBA champion in 48 years with an average age of 25.6 years old.

The Thunder were engaged in a tight game with Indiana in the first half as the road team was bringing it on both ends of the floor. Tyrese Haliburton scored 3 early threes for the Pacers, while Andrew Nembhard and Pascal Siakam provided the stability on their offense.

Despite Haliburton going down with an apparent right leg injury due to aggravating his calf strain (it was later reported to be an achilles injury), Indiana was not backing down, even taking a 48-47 lead at halftime on the road.

But then it was OKC’s turn to turn it up in the second half and bring the fight to their opponents. The Thunder put the clamps on the Pacers in the third quarter, going on their signature runs where they force turnovers with their suffocating defense and turn it into easy points. They forced 18 points off turnovers in the quarter to break the game wide open, and that was more than enough for the final tally.

After conjuring one of the longest NBA Finals scoring droughts in the past 20 years with 6 minutes, 17 seconds time differential, the Pacers tried to mount another comeback led by Bennedict Mathurin, cutting the lead down to 10. But that was the closest the Pacers got as OKC closed the game out  to bring an end to what has been an amazing back and forth series and come out as NBA champions.

In the end, The Oklahoma City Thunder set three notable NBA records: +259, best home point differential in a single playoffs; +52, best turnover differential in a single playoffs; and 19-2, best record following a loss in a single season.

The Oklahoma City Thunder just set three notable NBA records:

1) +259, best home point differential in a single playoffs
2) +52, best turnover differential in a single playoffs
3) 19-2, best record following a loss in a single season

— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) June 23, 2025

For his efforts, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was named the Finals MVP. SGA caps his one-of-a-kind season by winning the scoring title, regular season MVP, Western Conference Finals MVP, and now an NBA title and the Finals MVP.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander this year:

-All-star Starter
-Scoring champion
-Regular season MVP
-All-NBA 1st team
-Western Conference Finals MVP
-NBA Champion
-Finals MVP

Truly one of the greatest single-season campaigns of all-time. pic.twitter.com/lsuWLoOsVO

— Mon Anthony Valmoria (@MorvalNBA) June 23, 2025