The matchups are set for the 2025 NBA conference finals, as the Thunder will meet the Timberwolves in the Western Conference Finals and the Knicks will play the Pacers in the Eastern Conference Finals.

The Oklahoma City Thunder and Denver Nuggets are squaring off in a do-or-die Game 7 on Sunday afternoon. The top-seeded Thunder are facing elimination for the first time in these playoffs. The Nuggets are 2-0 in elimination games,

For the second straight season, Nikola Jokić's eternally resilient Denver Nuggets took a Western Conference heavyweight to seven games in the second round. And for the second straight season, Jokić's Nuggets ultimately fell short for the same reason.

The NBA announced on Monday that Jalen Williams was fined $25,000 for wearing a shirt with profanity language on it after the Oklahoma City Thunder 's 125-93 Game 7 win over the Denver Nuggets. He wore it in his postgame press conference.

They weren't that thin for the Denver Nuggets. They were as thick as Nikola Jokić. The best player in the world had the 68-win Thunder on the ropes multiple times. Jokić outplayed presumptive MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander in a second-round series that went seven games but ended in an OKC blowout.

Aaron Gordon's hamstring injury put a spotlight on the Denver Nuggets' limited depth in their NBA playoff series against the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Thunder head coach Mark Daigneault knows little about Adelman, but both have had similar upbringings. Adelman has been a Denver assistant since 2017, before he was promoted. Daigneault spent similar time in OKC as the G League's OKC Blue coach and Thunder assistant before he was given the job in 2020.

As a junior, he was able to cut weight from football season and get below the 220-pound mark for wrestling. By his senior year, he’d grown closer to the 260 pounds he weighs today and wrestled in the 285-pound class.”