Indiana, however, won 12 of 16 games in the Eastern Conference playoffs and is making its first NBA Finals appearance in 25 years and second overall. Neither the Thunder nor Pacers have ever won an NBA Championship. Don’t anger people in the Pacific Northwest by mentioning the Supersonics’ one championship as some sort of technicality.

Along with former NBA champion and eventual Eastern Conference Finals MVP Pascal Siakam, the Pacers beat the Milwaukee Bucks and upset the top-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers in five games each. They then traded haymakers with the New York Knicks in a heated six-game series that produced plenty of viral moments.

Tyrese Haliburton and the never-say-die Indiana Pacers pulled off yet another last-second comeback — this time on basketball’s biggest stage. Haliburton’s 21-foot jumper with 0.3 seconds left gave Indiana its first and only lead of the game,