Trying to score on the Oklahoma City Thunder’s defense can be like trying to ram a feather through a brick wall. Trying to contain the Indiana Pacers’ offense is similar to catching a gust of wind with an old sock. Both can border on impossible, and you need the right personnel to achieve either dream, which is what will make the 2025 NBA Finals such an alluring watch.

Please, for the love of basketball, spare us all your thoughts about the geographic locations of each team somehow being a detriment. While it is true that a coterie of expensive suits in Midtown Manhattan wanted, for rating purposes, something a little glitzier than Oklahoma City-Indianapolis—the 20th and 16th most-populous cities in the US —you, dear reader, are not the National Basketball Association . You are a

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