There will be a first-time NBA champion in 2025.

The Western Conference's top-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder meet the Eastern Conference's No. 4-seeded Indiana Pacers in this year's NBA Finals. The small market teams have a combined two prior Finals appearances and zero championships in their current franchise locations.

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The Thunder technically have one championship, which was won in 1979, across three other appearances in franchise, but those came as the Seattle SuperSonics. The SuperSonics moved from Seattle to OKC and rebranded as the Thunder in 2008.

NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Co. enter the Finals having lost just 18 total games across the regular season and postseason. The Thunder went 68-14

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