badly with Rafael Devers”<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nIn the history of the NBA Finals that reached the fourth game tied at 2-2, the team that won the fifth game won the title 74.2% of the time.\n\nThe sixth game will be played this Thursday in Indianapolis while a hypothetical seventh game would take place on Sunday back in Oklahoma City.\n\nThe difference was abysmal in the first half with the Thunder at a fabulous level, but after the break the tables turned and the Pacers threatened another comeback, a trademark of theirs, which they ultimately failed to achieve.\n\nOklahoma City Thunder forward Jalen Williams (c) shoots against Indiana Pacers forward Obi Toppin (d). EFE\/EPA\/Manuela Soldi\nWilliams signed the most important performance of his career with 40 points (14 of 25 in field goals with 3 of 5 in triples and 9 of 12 from the free throw line), 6 rebounds and 4 assists.\n\nHe thus achieved his new scoring record in the ‘playoffs’ and joined Russell Westbrook as the only ‘thunder’ with 40 or more points in the Finals.\n\nShai-Gilgeous Alexander completed a demolishing double-double with 31 points (9 of 21 in shots, 13 of 14 in free throws), 10 assists, 2 steals and 4 blocks.\n\nA forgettable night for Tyrese Haliburton. Aaron Wiggins (14 points with 4 of 7 on three-pointers) and Cason Wallace (11 points with 3 of 4) provided oxygen off the bench for a defensively dominant Thunder, as they forced 23 turnovers from the Pacers (32 points for Oklahoma) with 15 steals and 12 blocks.\n\nInstead, Tyrese Haliburton starred in a night to forget and also suffered discomfort in the calf of that right leg that is giving him problems during the Finals.\n\nThe point guard, clearly diminished, sealed a horrible stat line of 4 points (0 for 6 from the field, 4 for 4 from the free throw line), 7 rebounds and 6 assists with 3 turnovers.\n\nPascal Siakam (28 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists with 6 turnovers), T.J. McConnell (18 points) and Obi Toppin (12 points) led the Pacers, who hadn’t lost two games in a row since March and who are behind in a playoff series for the first time this postseason.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City (USA) (EFE).- The Oklahoma City Thunder, with 40 points from an extraordinary Jalen Williams, are close to the NBA title after defeating the Indiana Pacers 120-109 this Monday and taking a 3-2 lead in the series for the ring. You may be interested in: Manny Ram\u00edrez: \u201cThe Red Sox handled Rafael Devers very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":471725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[35743],"tags":[611,40231,33021,71,27882,41186],"class_list":["post-471724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-theperiodicodelatruth"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1YIs","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/5FM_6980-USA-BASKETBALL.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["Basketball"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/5FM_6980-USA-BASKETBALL.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}