{"id":493373,"date":"2025-06-17T04:34:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T08:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=493373"},"modified":"2025-06-17T04:34:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T08:34:48","slug":"williams-notches-40-and-okc-beat-pacers-for-3-2-nba-finals-lead","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/williams-notches-40-and-okc-beat-pacers-for-3-2-nba-finals-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams notches 40 and OKC beat Pacers for 3-2 NBA Finals lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Game 5 was very similar to Game 1 as the Thunder got a huge advantage at their venue and the Pacers came back in the 4<sup>th<\/sup> quarter.<\/p>\n<p>However, this time, Indiana triumphed.<\/p>\n<p>Jalen Williams finished with a career postseason-high 40 points, MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 31, and Oklahoma City moved 1 victory from a title by defeating Indiana 120-109.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udfc6 GAME 5 FINAL SCORE \ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n<p>Jalen Williams tallies a playoff career-high 40 PTS as the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/okcthunder?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@okcthunder<\/a> take a 3-2 series lead and move to one win away from a title! <\/p>\n<p>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander: 31 PTS, 10 AST, 4 BLK<\/p>\n<p>Game 6: Thursday, 6\/19 at 8:30pm\/et on ABC <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s8pNbAWTzv\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/s8pNbAWTzv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1934835485417082985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe try to do our best,\u201d shared Jalen, whose previous postseason best was 34.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t a great match for us, and we can improve a lot of things,\u201d claimed OKC boss Mark Daigneault. \u201cBut we definitely played better than in the previous match from the series.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pascal Siakam scored 28 points for the Pacers, who will welcome Game 6 in a must-win clash to tie the matchup. TJ McConnell notched 18 for Indiana, who made it within 2 points in the 4<sup>th<\/sup> quarter after trailing 18 \u2013 but then Oklahoma City took control and beat them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t do enough to win the match when we cut our deficit to only 2 points,\u201d shared Siakam. \u201cBut, without a doubt, we fought.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SHAI WITH A ONE-OF-A-KIND FINALS PERFORMANCE \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd25 31 PTS<br \/>\ud83d\udd25 10 AST<br \/>\ud83d\udd25 4 BLK<br \/>\ud83d\udd25 Only 30\/10\/4 Finals game since 1974<\/p>\n<p>THUNDER 1 WIN AWAY FROM A TITLE! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BCZT8s7iAF\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/BCZT8s7iAF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1934820547268853807?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 17, 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>Game 5 was very similar to Game 1 as the Thunder got a huge advantage at their venue and the Pacers came back [&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":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Thunder won Game 5 and secured the lead in the series.","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\/493373"}],"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=493373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/493373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493375,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/493373\/revisions\/493375"}],"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=493373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493373"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=493373"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=493373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}