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How to Bet on the NBA Finals: Thunder vs. Pacers
The NBA Finals tip off later in the week and the Indiana Pacers have their work cut out for them. The Oklahoma City Thunder are a significant favorite to win this series, largely due to their defense. Oklahoma City's swarming defense has contained the likes of Nikola Jokic and Anthony Edwards so far in these playoffs.
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NBA Finals predictions! Who will be champion: Pacers or Thunder? And who will win Finals MVP?
The 2025 NBA Finals are here! Will the Thunder complete one of the greatest NBA seasons of all time? Or will the Pacers pull off a major upset? Our writers break down the series and make their championship predictions. 1. What's the biggest question in the Finals? Vincent Goodwill: Tyrese Haliburton's name is on a poster in OKC's locker room, as a wanted man (sarcasm), and he'll receive special attention from the league's best defensive team. How will he handle it? It's arguable he's more important to the outcome of this series than even the MVP, because so much revolves around him. There's no Jalen Brunson to hunt, no Mikal Bridges to torture. If he's not the engine, the Pacers have a hard time scoring. If he's supercharged, they have a shot— maybe a thin shot, but a shot. Advertisement Tom Haberstroh: How can the Pacers get Tyrese Haliburton cooking? He's largely been a nonfactor against OKC's defense the past two seasons, averaging just 12 points per game in four matchups. He's proved the doubters wrong all postseason long, so I wouldn't count out Haliburton in this series. But getting an aggressive Hali will go a long way toward upsetting the Thunder. Dan Devine: Can the Pacers get enough stops against the Thunder offense to stay connected? For all the focus on the other side of the ball — on the strength vs. strength matchup of Indiana's fast-paced offense against Oklahoma City's high-pressure defense — OKC swept the regular-season series largely by scoring 123.5 points per 100 possessions against the Pacers defense. Newly crowned MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is going to get his. Can Indiana find a way to limit Jalen Williams, Chet Holmgren and the rest of Oklahoma City's supporting cast enough to keep the games tight and give its elite crunch-time attack an opportunity to tilt the run of play? (Henry Russell/Yahoo Sports Illustration) Dan Titus: Ratings, ratings, ratings. But no, seriously, which bench unit will truly swing the Finals? Both the Pacers and Thunder utilized deep rotations to achieve success in the postseason. Rick Carlisle and Mark Daigneault masterfully adjust their lineups to match their opponents. The minutes that X-factors like Alex Caruso, Cason Wallace, Bennedict Mathurin, T.J. McConnell, or Obi Toppin provide could tip the scale of a game or even a championship. Advertisement Ben Rohrbach: Can Indiana's defense withstand Oklahoma City's offensive firepower? We talk a lot about Indiana's high-powered offense (for good reason) and even more about OKC's top-rated defense (for good reason), but the Thunder play with pace and score in bunches, too. Can Andrew Nembhard and Aaron Nesmith stay in front of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander without fouling? Is Myles Turner a formidable enough last line of defense? Can everyone else stay home on Oklahoma City's shooters? It is a lot to account for, and that is just in the halfcourt. God forbid the Thunder catch your defense in transition. 2. Who has the most at stake in the Finals? Rohrbach: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. If he were to win the title and capture Finals MVP honors, he would become only the third guard in NBA history to seize both the regular-season and Finals MVP awards in the same season, joining Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson. He would join Jordan as the only guards ever to hold a scoring title and Finals MVP honors at once. In his wake on the all-time list of point guards would be Chris Paul, Steve Nash and John Stockton. Ahead of him would only be Johnson, Stephen Curry, Isiah Thomas and Bob Cousy — the multi-time champions. This is the company he could keep with a win. [2025 NBA Finals: Pacers-Thunder and the legacies on the line] Advertisement Titus: Tyrese Haliburton. Mr. Statistician Face Man mentioned Hali's underwhelming performances against the Thunder the past two seasons. If that trend bleeds into the NBA Finals, are we sure Haliburton's beaten the overrated allegations? I disagree with the narrative, but a poor showing would give the haters more ammo to reignite that asinine conversation. For all the signature moments he's provided this postseason, I'm anticipating he'll rise to the occasion and continue silencing the critics against one of the best defenses we've seen in a very long time. Haberstroh: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, but if I'm being honest, it's hard to drum up do-or-die stakes when these teams are so young and have such bright futures ahead of them. With that said, the Pacers are playing with house money right now, so the pressure is all on the Thunder to deliver after winning 68 games with the MVP. If SGA wins a title, the volume on the foul merchant chants won't hit the same decibels next season. Goodwill: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is the MVP, the league's scoring leader and, let me repeat, MVP by a wide margin. The last reigning MVP to get to the Finals and lose was Stephen Curry in 2016. And remember those jokes, the 3-1 cookies and the like? People still bring that up. Nobody bags on Allen Iverson for 2001, he was lauded for that one-game performance. But Karl Malone in 1997? A big topper in Michael Jordan's legacy. It's too early for the legacy stuff, seriously. But reputation? It will be solidified as the league's top big game player, the foul merchant stuff will quiet, and entering the club of champions is far more important than most can imagine. Advertisement Devine: It's tough to go too heavy into legacy talk with so many of the principles here still so young, with so much runway ahead of them … so let's go with Rick Carlisle. Only 14 coaches in NBA history have won multiple championships, and only three (Phil Jackson, Pat Riley, Alex Hannum) have led more than one franchise to the promised land. No observer with a pulse and two eyes can doubt the impact that Carlisle has had on winning throughout his tenures in Detroit, Dallas and Indiana; a second ring, though, would put him in historically exclusive company. 3. Name an X-factor in this series. Devine: Chet Holmgren. I wrote all about why in our series preview, but the CliffsNotes: He didn't play in either regular-season matchup against Indiana, and who he guards, who guards him and the downstream effects of those two decisions will represent pretty major tactical questions on both sides of the floor. If he can limit Pascal Siakam and keep turning the paint into a no-fly zone, I'm not sure how Indiana scores enough to win this series; if he struggles as much as literally every other defender has with Siakam and gets drawn out of the paint, then the Pacers might have a pathway. Rohrbach: Andrew Nembhard. It sounds like he will draw the initial defensive assignment on Gilgeous-Alexander. During the regular season, he spent 70 possessions defending SGA in their two matchups, according to the NBA's tracking data. Gilgeous-Alexander scored 27 points on 11-of-18 shooting (61%), as the Thunder scored 124.3 points per 100 possessions in that span. Not good. And after what he expends on defense, can Nembhard give the Pacers anything on offense? On a handful of occasions, he has scored 17+ points in these playoffs. In another handful, he has scored single digits. Which Nembhard shows up? Advertisement [NBA Finals preview: Pacers-Thunder key matchups, schedule, X-factors and prediction] Haberstroh: Lu Dort. The All-Defensive First Team member has averaged 18.8 points per game against the Pacers over the last two seasons, which is actually more than the All-Star he was tasked to guard, Haliburton. A lot will hinge on his ability to knock down open shots and lock down Haliburton. If he averages 18.8 points per game in the Finals and neutralizes Haliburton, I low-key could see an Iguodala-esque Finals MVP future. Goodwill: Myles Turner. The bigs in Minnesota struggled with the length, aggressiveness and speed of Chet Holmgren and Isaiah Hartenstein. Turner was in foul trouble in three of the six conference finals games, and even though he doesn't always score big, he has to be an athletic presence on offense and deterrent on defense. He has to make SGA at least think, for a beat, as opposed to giving him free access everywhere. If he's the inside-outside monster who dominates his matchup, that's a significant flex for the Pacers. Titus: Aaron Nesmith. I think he'll draw arguably the most important assignment of the series, matching up against SGA. As Devine said, SGA will get his, but any disruption to his flow will be crucial for the Pacers. Offensively, Nesmith's elite 3-point shooting in the postseason, specifically from the corner, could offset the Thunder's suffocating defense. As great as OKC's defense is, the Thunder's constant ball pressure can sometimes leave them vulnerable on weak-side rotations. That's an opportunity for the hot-shooting Pacers and Nesmith to take advantage. 4. After Game 1, everyone's going to be talking about _________. Titus: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. It's all eyes on the MVP, as SGA will set the tone for the series from the outset. In their two regular-season matchups, SGA averaged 39 points, 7 rebounds, 8 assists and 2 stocks on 56% shooting from the field. He hasn't missed a beat through three rounds and he ain't stopping on the NBA's biggest stage. Advertisement Goodwill: Lu Dort. He plays football and at times, can be reckless going for loose balls. Defending Haliburton will be his main task and unlike Anthony Edwards, Haliburton isn't the physical specimen, so getting pushed around won't be looked at so kindly. But yes, sticking his chest into everybody will be a story after Game 1. Devine: Alex Caruso. People really like talking about Alex Caruso. Rohrbach: The Thunder's defense. They are historically great, and it is a sight to see. They swarm, forcing a ton of turnovers and turning them into easy, entertaining transition opportunities. It is the most jarring part of watching them, other than the brilliance of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. Between Lu Dort, Cason Wallace and Alex Caruso — and even Gilgeous-Alexander — Oklahoma City has waves of point-of-attack defenders to throw at Tyrese Haliburton. In the first of their games during the regular season, the Thunder held him to his lowest usage rate of the season. In the other, the Thunder limited him to three assists. Replicate anything close to either of those accomplishments, and the Pacers have no chance. Advertisement Haberstroh: Chet Holmgren. He didn't play in the regular-season matchups against Indiana, and he's been much better at home than on the road this postseason. There's a good chance he'll be the story coming off his Western Conference finals run. I could see him sliding over at center especially if Indiana goes zone. He's critical to everything they do. 5. What's your Finals prediction, and who's the Finals MVP? Haberstroh: Thunder in 5. My head is telling me it's gonna be a sweep, but my heart won't let me go there. The villainous Pacers will get hot and torch OKC from deep to steal one game, but I'm going with my preseason pick, the Thunder, in a quick one. SGA wins the first clean sweep of MVP and Finals MVP since LeBron James in 2012-13. Titus: Thunder in 6. The Pacers will show resilience and steal a couple of games with their depth and coaching adjustments, but OKC's brilliance will ultimately prevail. It's only fitting that SGA concludes this historic year by becoming the fourth player in NBA history to win the scoring title, MVP, and Finals MVP in the same season. (Henry Russell/Yahoo Sports Illustration) Rohrbach: Thunder in ... 4. With all due respect to the Pacers, the watered-down Eastern Conference has met its match in a 68-win juggernaut. Give Gilgeous-Alexander his Finals MVP, and call it a summer. Advertisement Devine: Read the preview! It's all in there! OK, fine: Thunder in 6, and SGA caps off a season for the ages by adding Finals MVP hardware to his regular-season and Western Conference Finals MVP trophies. Goodwill: Thunder in 5. It's not disrespect to the Pacers. It's just the Thunder are that damn good and those 68 wins weren't by accident. They graduated by beating the Nuggets in the seven-game slugfest. Now, it's time to turn those tassels over, with Gilgeous-Alexander leading the way as the Finals MVP. It's OKC's time.
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French Open women's semifinal: Live updates, highlights as Coco Gauff looks to join Aryna Sabalenka in final
The 2025 French Open semifinals match between Aryna Sabalenka and Iga Swiatek was as good as advertised. After a back-and-forth match, Sabalenka came out on top in three sets (7-6, 6-4, 6-0), advancing to the final. It was a tremendous match all the way through. Despite some early mistakes by Swiatek, she was able to rally in the first set and eventually force a tiebreak. But with the first set on the line, Sabalenka rose to the occasion, using her devastating serve to take the win. Advertisement Swiatek answered back in the second set, taking an early 3-1 lead. While Sabalenka fought her back, Swiatek came out ahead this time around, winning the second set 6-4 to set up a decisive third set. It was the first time in the entire tournament that Sabalenka dropped a set. There was a lot riding on the final set for Swiatek, who has won the French Open the past three years. She came into the match riding a 26-match win streak, the second best figure in the history of the. French Open. Things didn't start out well for Swiatek, as Sabalenka jumped up to an early 3-0 lead in the final set. She carried that momentum all the way through the set, winning 6-0 and advancing to her first French Open final. Fatigue may have been the biggest factor in Sabalenka's victory. Despite a lengthy match, Sabalenka's serves remained dominant even in the final set. Swiatek, who was able to turn in some strong returns in the first two sets, couldn't seem to keep up with Sabalenka's late serves, which were still coming in at incredible speeds. With the win, Sabalenka will face the winner of Coco Gauff and Lois Boisson in the final. Advertisement Gauff, 21, is seeking her first singles title of the year and second-ever Grand Slam title, having won the US Open back in 2023. She dropped her first set of the tournament to fellow American, No. 7 Madison Keys, in the quarterfinals, eventually advancing to the semis after a 6-7(6) 6-4, 6-1 run. Boisson, 22, is competing in her first career Grand Slam, holding a world ranking of No. 361 heading into this tournament. By advancing to the semifinals, she became the first woman to make the semis in her first Grand Slam since Jennifer Capriati in the 1990 French Open, Tennis365 notes. Gauff is heavily favored to advance to the French Open women's final, with odds at -475 on BetMGM, compared to Boisson at +350. How to watch French Open women's semifinals Date: Thursday, June 4 Advertisement Aryna Sabalenka-Iga Świątek start time: 9 a.m. ET Coco Gauff-Louis Boisson approximate start time: 10:10 a.m. ET TV channel: TNT, truTV Live stream: HBO Max Follow along with Yahoo Sports for live updates, highlights and more from the French Open women's semifinal:
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MLB's robot umps are (probably) actually near. Plus: José Ramírez's best season yet?
The Windup Newsletter ⚾ | This is The Athletic's MLB newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Windup directly in your inbox. Robot Umps Now? Well, no. But next year? It's starting to look that way … Plus: The Red Sox are keeping Ceddanne Rafaela in center field (and he's proving them right), the Sacramento experiment isn't going well for the A's, and we appreciate the (somehow, still) underappreciated José Ramírez. I'm Levi Weaver, here with Ken Rosenthal. Welcome to The Windup! In big news that is not at all surprising, commissioner Rob Manfred said yesterday he does plan to make a proposal to MLB's competition committee to introduce the automated ball/strike system (ABS) into regular-season games next year. There could be some tweaks before next year, but tweaks might be all the anti-ABS folks will get. As Drellich reports: 'The league office has enough votes on the 11-person committee — which is also made up of player representatives and one umpire — to push through what it wants.' In short, you #RobotUmpsNow people are about to get your wish. If it helps, the challenges really don't add much delay to the game. Rather than going full huddle-up-and-headsets about it, the ABS technology comes to the home plate umpire via earpiece. It's a delay of a few seconds at most, and the most egregious calls — feel free to list your own in the comments once this newsletter is published on the site — will be overturned. More Manfred: The commissioner expressed regret over the league's ESPN opt-out and hopes for a new partner in July. From my latest column: On May 13, the Athletics won the opener of a three-game series at Dodger Stadium, 11-1. The next night, in a game started by Cy Young contender Yoshinobu Yamamoto, they trailed the Los Angeles Dodgers in the eighth inning, 4-3. And then, seemingly out of nowhere, they collapsed. Not just that night. For the next three weeks. Advertisement The Dodgers' five-run eighth sent the A's into a 1-20 nosedive resulting almost entirely from the failures of their bullpen. That's the baseball explanation, at least. But for owner John Fisher's vagabond franchise, wandering from Oakland to West Sacramento to the supposed promised land of Las Vegas, it's not the entire story. Not when the A's are 9-22 at Sutter Health Park, the second-worst home record in the majors, ahead of only the Colorado Rockies' 6-22 mark. And not when they're stuck at their minor-league facility through at least 2027, unlike the Tampa Bay Rays, who are playing in a minor-league park only because of a natural disaster, and only this season. 'It's certainly daunting when you zoom out and look at it,' said the A's All-Star closer, Mason Miller. 'But a blessing of being a ballplayer is you get to show up today. Today is what matters. Nothing tomorrow is guaranteed. That, at least, is how I approach it.' It is the right and only way to approach it. But that doesn't make playing at Sutter Health Park easier. The clubhouses are located in the outfield, instead of being connected to the dugout. And even after approximately $11 million in renovations, the A's reality is undeniable — they are playing in a Triple-A facility, and sharing it with the San Francisco Giants' top affiliate, the Sacramento River Cats. The Rays, 20-19 at home after a 9-16 start, found a way to adjust to their own unusual conditions at Steinbrenner Field, the spring training home of the New York Yankees. The A's, for whatever reasons, have been less successful. Their $67 million free agent, right-hander Luis Severino, is the symbol of the team's difficult transition. Severino's ERA is 6.99 at home, 0.87 on the road. 'The circumstances are what they are. We can't change those,' said A's manager Mark Kotsay, a former major-league outfielder. 'We have to find a way to embrace and make this our home like we did in Oakland.' More here. It's almost a trope now: 'Why is José Ramírez so underrated?' OK, that might be true among casual fans, but among those who play and coach in the game … he's not. Take this small excerpt from Zack Meisel's excellent profile of Ramírez: 'The suggestion that Ramírez isn't appreciated makes (Yankees manager Aaron Boone) 'want to rip my arms off and throw (them) at the TV.'' Advertisement Not sure what appendage Boone wanted to disabuse himself of last night, but Ramírez and the Guardians beat the Yankees 4-0; Ramírez went 1-for-5 with a double and extended his on-base streak to 30 games. As Meisel points out, Ramírez — a six-time All-Star and seven-time top-10 MVP finisher — might be having his best season yet, hitting .327/.382/.550 (.932 OPS) with 11 home runs in 58 games. That would be a career high in batting average, and the last two times he had a higher OPS over a full 162-game season, he finished third in MVP voting (2017-2018). (Another contender: Last year, when he hit .279/.335/.537 (.872), he finished one homer short of a 40/40 season — and was denied a shot at that last homer when the Guardians' last game was rained out.) Whether you're one of those wondering why the 32-year-old Ramírez is so underrated, or if you're still not fully aware, I highly recommend Meisel's profile, which gives us the history of the rare Cleveland superstar the team has kept around (there are details in the story on how that happened, too). If you click one link today, it should be this one. More Guardians: With this latest wave of starters, the Guardians' 'pitching factory' might not be dead, after all. Good timing: Chad Jennings already had a story coming today about whether Ceddanne Rafaela could be the next Pete Crow-Armstrong. The lede there: One big reason the Red Sox haven't called up the game's top prospect, Roman Anthony, to play center field — moving Rafaela back to the infield — is that they view Rafaela as a potentially elite outfield defender. Look, we all want to see Anthony in the big leagues, but Rafaela's numbers in center field back up the claim. As of yesterday morning, he actually led all center fielders with 11 Defensive Runs Saves (Crow-Armstrong was second, at eight). Advertisement And then this is a beat writer's dream: In the last game before this story was published (yesterday), Rafaela, 24, hit a walk-off home run against the Angels. But it wasn't just any walk-off home run — it was juuuuuust fair, inside the Pesky Pole in right field at Fenway Park. At 308 feet, it was — per Sarah Langs — the shortest walk-off home run in the Statcast era. CEDDANNE RAFAELA TUCKS IT INSIDE THE POLE FOR A #WALKOFF HOME RUN! — MLB (@MLB) June 4, 2025 More Red Sox: Before the game, Angels starter Tyler Anderson and Red Sox first-base coach José Flores had some heated words. Neither side offered much in the way of explanation after the game. More like Mick 'Stable,' get it? Get it? No?! C'mon, the story literally uses 'stability' in the headline. I'm not sorry! Anyway, it was a wild night (derogatory) for the Phillies. I misspoke when I said the fan vote 'concluded' our All-Quarter Century Team coverage. Here's the White Sox version from Jon Greenberg, who added some bonus roster spots. Stay tuned for more … Despite a few factors to raise suspicions to the contrary, Jose Altuve is staying in left field, says Chandler Rome. Years ago, fantasy sports helped fuel a reunion by indie legends Pavement. Yesterday, members of the band threw out the first pitch in Cincinnati. (The Reds still lost to the red-hot Brewers). Meanwhile, Hunter Greene is (back) on the IL. Speaking of the IL … Marcell Ozuna isn't on it. He's battling through a hip injury with Atlanta. Twins starter Pablo López, on the other hand, is going to miss eight to 12 weeks. Chicago may be 'the place quarterbacks go to die,' but Cubs pitcher Cade Horton is thriving. Imagine being named GM, then having to cut a former teammate. That's what happened in San Francisco, with Buster Posey making the decision to move on from Lamonte Wade, Jr. Advertisement No Yu Darvish, no Michael King, no problem … so far. The Padres are doing their best to weather a big test to their rotation. Jim Bowden makes his early picks for an All-Star from each team. On the pods: On 'Rates & Barrels,' Eno, Jed and DVR discussed the debut of Jac Caglianone and park effects that park factors may not account for. Most-clicked in our last newsletter: … was a link that didn't exist yet. Whoops! 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