Keerthika Uthayakumar
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Only 1 of the Spurs' top-7 scorers was alive for the 1999 NBA Finals. De'Aaron Fox.
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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.
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Spurs won 56 total games in Wembanyama's first two NBA seasons. In his third season: 74 wins & an NBA Finals appearance.
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San Antonio is now 45-11 when Dylan Harper scores 10+ points this season.
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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.
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A reigning NBA champion hasn't made it back to the NBA Finals since the Golden State Warriors in 2019.
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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
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7 point swing in 60 seconds of game time, best Game 7 of this playoffs
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OKC has a lead in the series for the first time since the end of Game 5.
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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.
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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.
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Spurs win by 27 points, the largest margin of victory in an elimination game in Spurs playoff history.
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OKC never led tonight, making this their first wire-to-wire loss in the playoffs since 2016 in Game 1 of Thunder/Spurs!
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OKC is 16 minutes away from their first wire-to-wire playoff loss since 2016.
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just did my daily twitter scroll & have many questions on how many people on that app are real
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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).
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Steve Jones
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welp
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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.
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Thunder win the first stretch of non-SGA minutes by 4.
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John Hollinger
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this series rules.
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Jalen Brunson the last time the Knicks made the NBA Finals
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
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@nycsanitation.bsky.social
I’d like to report a sweep
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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.
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Team Streak Stats Finder - Pro Basketball | Stathead
Get the consecutive team games stats for regular season, playoffs and more on Stathead.
https://www.sports-reference.com/stathead/tiny/pawQX
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
add a skeleton here at some point
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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.
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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
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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.
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Molly Morrison
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the cavs will always have those 2 analytical wins
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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.
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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
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OKC has trailed in the fourth quarter in 3 of 12 games this postseason. 2 of those 3 games have come against the Spurs.
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Oh No He Didn't
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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"
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Victor Wembanyama had 4 makes at the rim, 2 blocks & a make from 43+ feet in the first half. Make it make sense.
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Wemby's buzzer beater came from 40-feet, the 2nd-longest made shot of any player this postseason.
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Steve Jones
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WHAT EVEN IS VICTOR WEMBANYAMA
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So far tonight: OKC is 1-for-4 at the rim with Wemby on 4-for-8 with him off!!
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Josh Lewenberg
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15 players named "Jalen" played in the NBA this season. Four made an All-NBA team.
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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.
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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
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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!!
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Kevin Pelton
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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...
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How I lucked into my dream job
And why I'm now saying farewell to it
https://open.substack.com/pub/kpeltonhoops/p/how-i-lucked-into-my-dream-job?r=160d3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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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.
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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.
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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has assisted on 25 threes for the Thunder in this series. Made or assisted on 29 of their 47 threes.
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Over the last 2 seasons, regular season & playoffs, OKC is 62-8 when they shoot 40% or better from three.
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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.
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