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There are plenty of SGA-related numbers after the OKC Thunder's Game 4 win but there were plenty of other key numbers as well.
Oklahoma City is in a difficult spot — but one that’s all too familiar. This NBA Finals series is far from over, but this Thunder team can do itself a huge favo
The next time down the floor, Gilgeous-Alexander had Nesmith on him again on a crossmatch. He isolated on the left wing, drove baseline and went into one of his patented stepbacks. Nesmith hit the floor, trying to draw a foul on the push-off. Andrew Nembhard scurried over to contest it, but it didn't matter: Cash.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 15 of his 35 points late, capping the Oklahoma Thunder’s rally for a 111-104 win over the Indiana Pacers on Friday to tie the NBA Finals at 2-2.
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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 15 fourth-quarter points, and the Oklahoma City Thunder won Game 4 of the NBA Finals, 111-104, over the Indiana Pacers. Oklahoma City scored 14 of the game's last 15 points.
When the Seattle SuperSonics relocated to Oklahoma City in 2008, the franchise needed a new identity, but OKC Thunder wasn't always the front-runner.
The modern iteration of the city, of course, is not just shaped by its urban renewal, but by the never-healing scar of being subject to the worst domestic terrorist attack in U.S. history — the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995, which killed 168 people.
The Oklahoma City Thunder have its back against the wall again. At some point, they have to shift its mindset.