And neither Oklahoma City nor Indiana has ever won an NBA title before. This would be their first. So for both teams, the stakes couldn't be higher. MARTIN: All right, that is NPR's Becky Sullivan.

And neither Oklahoma City nor Indiana has ever won an NBA title before. This would be their first. So for both teams, the stakes couldn't be higher. MARTIN: All right, that is NPR's Becky Sullivan.

The NBA Finals are headed to a winner-take-all Game 7 on Sunday for the first time in almost a decade after the Indiana Pacers crushed the Oklahoma City Thunder Thursday night.

Rick Horrow, a veteran sports-business academic and consultant who helped draw up plans for Oklahoma City’s original MAPS program, said the look and feel of an NBA Finals parade are influenced ...