Walker Mccraney

[Mayor David Holt @davidfholt]

Gameday. This shirt you will wear. This chair you will not use. It is Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals.

For only the second time in NBA history, both teams facing each other in a Game 7 have at least 62 wins. This heavyweight series has reached its final chapter. And though only the players get to touch the basketball, our fans in the arena tonight in downtown OKC will help determine the outcome.

In the playoffs this year and last, the Thunder are 17-3 at home and 10-7 on the road. At home or on the road, it’s the same players, the same coaches, the same basketballs, but the results are quite different. The difference is you.

Tonight, if you’re in the arena, you will give it everything you have for 48 minutes. By the end, you should be as exhausted as the players. You must always remember that it is a privilege and an obligation to be in that arena tonight. You are not a mere spectator. You are carrying the cheers and the hopes of millions of Thunder fans watching on TV across Oklahoma City and the world. You are there tonight to claim sports immortality on behalf of Thunder fans everywhere.

To the fans in the arena tonight - Arrive early. No sitting except in timeouts. Get back for the start of the third quarter. Give it everything you’ve got for all 48.

To the fans in their living rooms or bars and watching across Oklahoma City and the world - We can hear you, too. We’re all In this together.

It’s Game 7. Thunder Up.

[Russell Westbrook @russwest44]

1 more!!!!!!!!!! #thunderup

[Brandon Rahbar @BrandonRahbar]

Stephon Castle has more free throws than the entire Thunder team.

[Kalshi Hoops @KalshiHoops]

Most 30+ PTS Playoff Games with under 10 FT Attempts, Last 3 Seasons:

1. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (13)
2. Jalen Brunson (11)
3. Luka Doncic (11)
4. Donovan Mitchell (11)
5. Anthony Edwards (9)
6. Kyrie Irving (7)
7. Nikola Jokic (7)
8. Tyrese Maxey (6)

[SleeperThunder @SleeperThunder]

49ers star TE George Kittle says he’s been following the Thunder 👀

“I was a graduate of high school from Norman, Oklahoma, and that’s when I was going to Oklahoma City Thunder games, and that’s when they had KD, James Harden, Russell Westbrook, Nick Collison in the post, Serge Ibaka. So I would go to all their games, so I was a little bit of an OKC fan… I went to a game where Shai—he dropped like 53 points. It was the quietest 50 game I’ve ever seen.”

(🎥 @kittlethings, H/T @OurSf49ers) | #ThunderUp

[Clemente Almanza @CAlmanza1007]

Alex Caruso on facing the Spurs: “Preparing for war. We’re a good team. They’re a good team. Good basketball will be played.”

[Underdog NBA @UnderdogNBA]

SGA's MVP season:

1st in clutch PPG
1st in clutch PTS
1st in 20-point games
1st in plus-minus
2nd in PTS
2nd in PPG
2nd in 30-point games
3rd in 40-point games
Clutch Player of the Year
Consecutive 60-win seasons

Joins Curry, Nash, Jordan, Magic as only guards to win B2B MVPs.

[Clemente Almanza @CAlmanza1007]

Victor Wembanyama now has more career playoff ejections than Lu Dort

[Benjamin Howard @BenHowardOPT]

The Los Angeles Lakers shot 453 more free throws than their opponents this season.

The second highest differential in the league is the San Antonio Spurs at 311.

Do you *really* want people paying more attention to who lives and dies on the whistle?

[StatMuse @statmuse]

Teams with most free throw attempts per game this season, including playoffs:

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[Joshua Boydston @joshuaboydston_]

[Wemby clanks a 35 foot shot off the backboard]

Doris Burke: But how impressive would that have been if it had gone in?

[Gur Singh @HoopFocusX]

One of the Pat McAfee host’s ask Tyrese Haliburton on Shai’s “flopping”

Haliburton says “It’s so overblown”

[Tyler @tylerbritton_]

Shai took 3 free throws. OKC took 12. They won by 18.

I opened this app after the game and immediately saw 3 straight "FT merchant" tweets.

Might actually be the most successful media psyop since Rudy Gobert playoff talk.

[Michael Martin @MichaelOnSports]

Playoff basketball starts and I swear it transforms Alex Caruso into a different player like a werewolf under a full moon.

[🌗 @thundercudi]

I can’t remember a time a team was ranked 17 out of 30 in something and considered the best

[Cruz Oxenreider @TheRealCruzOx]

Bring back Joyless Murderball

[Paul Finebaum @finebaum]

It's been a rough season for Auburn vs their biggest rival, no matter the sport:

[That Guy Rocked CFB @ThatFBGuyRocked]

Reuben Foster.

That guy rocked.

[Andrew Schlecht @AndrewKSchlecht]

At the end of NBA Today @malika_andrews casually mentions the Thunder are 100 games over .500 over the last two seasons

They are 130-30 over the last 2 seasons

That is insane

[Fluka Magic @FlukaMagic]

Sam Presti gonna get a draft pick out of this somehow