SportsLine's model simulated Oklahoma City vs. Indiana 10,000 times and revealed its NBA picks for Thursday's NBA Finals 2025 Game 6 contest

If Haliburton misses Game 6, that torpedoes the Pacers' chances to force a decisive Game 7. He's been Indiana's best player and primary ball-handler. The Thunder will be the heavy

Jerry West and Elgin Baylor did it often. Kyrie Irving and LeBron James did it a couple of times. And now, Jalen Williams and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander have entered NBA lore.

The Thunder superstar is already making his imprint on the NBA Finals record book and has OKC 1 win from the title.

Indiana Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton is believed to have suffered a strained calf and needs an MRI, ESPN's Shams Charania reports.

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• ESPN hauled in a ratings record with the final game of the Women’s College World Series. Texas’ 10-4 victory over Texas Tech in the finale of the three-game series drew 2.4 million viewers Friday, up 20 percent year to year and edging the previous high of 2.33 million, set in 2007.

Now it's the Pacers fanbase's turn to be obnoxiously loud. Bennedict Mathurin revealed he thought the OKC crowd was the moment everything hit him that they were in the NBA Finals. An unlikely destination considering how Indiana was viewed before the playoffs started in April.