Pacers coach Rick Carlisle fumes over Thunder championship buses before Game 7
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Oklahoma City is envisioning a championship parade. Indiana Pacers coach Rick Carlisle is seeing red.
Oklahoma City Thunder officials are certainly confident of a Game 7 win over the Indiana Pacers in the NBA Finals as there were buses seen at the Paycom Center primed and painted, ready for a victory parade, with the words 2025 NBA Champions on them before Sunday's winner-take-all game.
Word of the colorfully painted buses got around to Pacers head coach Rick Carlisle, who no doubt will use that as motivation to ruin any championship plans by the Thunder.
Moments ago, Rick Carlisle said he has seen this video. Did not seemed pleased by it. pic.twitter.com/AlrtklyN4k
'I just saw a video that's probably going to go viral of some buses, open-top buses, presumably for the parade that are already painted with them as champions. That's all I'm thinking about right now,' Carlisle said.
Indiana is looking to become the first road team to win an NBA Finals Game 7 on the road since the Cleveland Cavaliers completed their three-games-to-one deficit against the Golden State Warriors in 2016.
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