{"id":493262,"date":"2025-06-14T04:50:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T08:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=493262"},"modified":"2025-06-14T04:50:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T08:50:56","slug":"thunder-beat-pacers-after-huge-4th-quarter-in-game-4-to-even-the-series","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/thunder-beat-pacers-after-huge-4th-quarter-in-game-4-to-even-the-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder beat Pacers after huge 4th quarter in Game 4 to even the series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 45 minutes in Game 4, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the OKC felt like the most successful campaign in organization history could end up without a title.<\/p>\n<p>Pacers had a 2-possession lead, and Oklahoma City was very close to trailing 3-1 in the series, as only once had a team returned to win the title after such a deficit.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 OKC SETS SINGLE-SEASON SCORING MARK \ud83d\udea8<\/p>\n<p>After tonight&#39;s game, the Thunder have scored 12,205 points, setting a new NBA record for most total points scored across the regular season and postseason, passing the 2018-19 Warriors (12,161). <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZXrhtNAkRn\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ZXrhtNAkRn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1933796557997957630?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 14, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, Thunder didn\u2019t allow themselves to be defeated, and they took control in the final minutes to beat Indiana 111-104 and will return to Oklahoma City for Game 5 with the series tied.<\/p>\n<p>Shai scored the 2 biggest shots of the match and of his career until now on straight possessions after Pacers leader Tyrese Haliburton drove by him for a layup that put the Indiana up by 4 with 200 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Gilgeous-Alexander notched 15 of Oklahoma City\u2019s final 16 points, including 11 in the last 3 minutes. That is the most points by a basketballer in the final 3 minutes of a Finals victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t believe what I just saw,\u201d shared OKC manager Mark Daigneault. \u201cGilgeous-Alexander didn\u2019t play very well until the final minutes, where he showed why he is the MVP:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SGA COMES UP HUGE IN GAME 4 \u26a1\ufe0f\ud83d\udea8<\/p>\n<p>35 points.<br \/>15 in the 4th.<br \/>3 steals.<\/p>\n<p>THE <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KiaMVP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#KiaMVP<\/a> DELIVERS IN A MASSIVE MOMENT FOR OKC! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uPjnixOSID\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/uPjnixOSID<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1933732512083198149?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 14, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 45 minutes in Game 4, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the OKC felt like the most successful campaign in organization history could end up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":493263,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16971,16786],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18386,17840],"acf":{"announce":"Oklahoma City tied the matchup against Indiana 2-2 and took back the home advantage.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/493262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/493262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493265,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/493262\/revisions\/493265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493262"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=493262"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=493262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}