Only 1 of the Spurs' top-7 scorers was alive for the 1999 NBA Finals. De'Aaron Fox.

Victor Wembanyama is the first player to lead a Finals team in scoring in the first 4 seasons of his career since LeBron James in 2007. This is year 3 for Wembanyama.

Spurs won 56 total games in Wembanyama's first two NBA seasons. In his third season: 74 wins & an NBA Finals appearance.

San Antonio is now 45-11 when Dylan Harper scores 10+ points this season.

San Antonio's top-8 playoff rotation (by minutes played) entered the postseason with a combined 50 games of playoff experience. That's the fewest by a top-8 rotation since the Blazers entered with 45 games of experience in 1977.

A reigning NBA champion hasn't made it back to the NBA Finals since the Golden State Warriors in 2019.

The NBA will have a different NBA champion for 8th straight season, extending the longest streak in league history. 2019 - Toronto 2020 - Los Angeles Lakers 2021 - Milwaukee 2022 - Golden State 2023 - Denver 2024 - Boston 2025 - Oklahoma City 2026 - New York/San Antonio

7 point swing in 60 seconds of game time, best Game 7 of this playoffs

OKC has a lead in the series for the first time since the end of Game 5.

I’ve been trying to get out of my storytelling/media/broadcast bubble to learn different things so went to a couple tech events this week. I will be staying in my bubble.

There will be at least FIVE Game 7s this postseason, tied for the most in a single postseason in NBA playoff history. It's the most in one season since 2016.

Spurs win by 27 points, the largest margin of victory in an elimination game in Spurs playoff history.

OKC never led tonight, making this their first wire-to-wire loss in the playoffs since 2016 in Game 1 of Thunder/Spurs!

OKC is 16 minutes away from their first wire-to-wire playoff loss since 2016.

just did my daily twitter scroll & have many questions on how many people on that app are real

Alex Caruso is shooting 47.7% from three this postseason, 18.4% higher than he did in the regular season (29.3%). That's on pace to be the biggest jump in 3P% from the regular season to the playoffs in NBA history (min. 50 attempts in both).

welp

Wemby in 2 wins this series: 19-for-28 at the rim Wemby in 2 losses: 7-for-9 at the rim He was 2-for-3 at the rim in the first half of Game 5.

Thunder win the first stretch of non-SGA minutes by 4.

this series rules.

Jalen Brunson the last time the Knicks made the NBA Finals

@nycsanitation.bsky.social I’d like to report a sweep

The New York Knicks haven't lost a basketball game since April 23. They've won 11 straight games, tied for the third-longest win streak in NBA playoff history. www.sports-reference.com/stathead/tin... @stathead.com

Knicks bench outscored the Cavs 58-24 tonight, their largest differential in any game this postseason. They've won the bench point differential in 8 of 14 games over this run, after losing it in every game last playoffs.

James Harden is now 12-17 in elimination games in his career. He's shot 35% or worse from the field in 15 of his 28 career elimination games.

Some analytics: Knicks outscored the Cavs by a combined 77 points this series, the second-largest point differential in a 4-game sweep in Conference Finals history, behind the Lakers in 2001 (+89).

James Harden finished with more turnovers (5) than made field goals (2) for the 33rd time in his playoff career & the 7th time this postseason.

Knicks have a +19.4 average point differential this postseason, the largest by a team entering the NBA Finals in NBA playoff history. Passed the 2017 Warriors' mark of +16.3.

Knicks are the first team in NBA history to have three 20+ point series clinching wins in a single playoff run. 51-point win in Game 6 vs the Hawks 30-point win in Game 4 vs the 76ers 37-point win in Game 4 vs the Cavs

Cavs have given up 20+ points off turnovers for the 10th time this postseason, the most such games in one playoff run since the stat was tracked in 1997. Gave up 20+ points off turnovers in 10 of their 18 games.

the cavs will always have those 2 analytical wins

Knicks went on a 20-0 run in the first half, the second time a team has scored 20+ unanswered points in a closeout games this postseason. Spurs did it against the Wolves.

I started calling being off for the offseason my “semi-retired” summer last year. 1 week into being semi-retired & I barely remember how to use my phone, it’s the best

OKC has trailed in the fourth quarter in 3 of 12 games this postseason. 2 of those 3 games have come against the Spurs.

Pop after game 3: "That's BS. That's not how we play basketball" De'Aaron: "That was the first time all season that he came into the locker room right after a game and told us how he felt...he opened that door, we see Pop come in and it's like ohhh"

Victor Wembanyama had 4 makes at the rim, 2 blocks & a make from 43+ feet in the first half. Make it make sense.

Wemby's buzzer beater came from 40-feet, the 2nd-longest made shot of any player this postseason.

WHAT EVEN IS VICTOR WEMBANYAMA

So far tonight: OKC is 1-for-4 at the rim with Wemby on 4-for-8 with him off!!

15 players named "Jalen" played in the NBA this season. Four made an All-NBA team.

I have to double check everything I see on socials these days but I genuinely didn’t think Atkinson’s “Analytically… we’ve won 2 out of 3” was a real quote. Didn’t get better with context.

Cavs have been outscored in almost every hustle stat this postseason. -123 in fast break points -72 in points off turnovers +4 in second chance points

New York has won 10 straight games, tied for the 5th-longest win streak in NBA playoff history. Their longest playoff win streak in franchise history & their longest of any kind since 2013!!

Taking some time today to say thanks to everyone at ESPN about my 13-plus years there now that I've started the next chapter of my career in the WNBA: open.substack.com/pub/kpeltonh...

OKC is shooting 49.4% on wide open threes in 3 games against the Spurs this series. They've been wide open for 77 of their 119 attempts from three, per NBA tracking.

OKC's bench outscored the Spurs bench by 53 points tonight (76-23), the largest bench differential in a Conference Finals game since the league started tracking starters.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has assisted on 25 threes for the Thunder in this series. Made or assisted on 29 of their 47 threes.

Over the last 2 seasons, regular season & playoffs, OKC is 62-8 when they shoot 40% or better from three.

Jared McCain outscored the Spurs bench 24-18 on his own before garbage time. Philly's bench combined for 24 or more points in 5 games this postseason.