Haliburton caps rally with gamewinner for Pacers
NBA, Sports
THURSDAY’S LATE GAME
June 7, 2025
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Tyrese Haliburton and the never-say-die Indiana Pacers pulled off yet another last-second comeback, this time on the NBA’s biggest stage. Haliburton’s 21-foot jumper with 0.3 seco...
Mr. Clutch: Tyrese Haliburton keeps delivering
NBA, Sports
June 7, 2025
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — You are Tyrese Haliburton. You went to the Eastern Conference finals last year and got swept. You went to the Olympics last summer and didn’t play much. You came into this season ...
Thunder rule: Players must learn what bombing meant to OKC
NBA, Sports
June 7, 2025
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Isaiah Hartenstein was born in 1998, three years after Oklahoma City changed forever. It was April 19, 1995, when a truck bomb detonated outside a federal building in Oklahoma Cit...
How the Pacers pulled off their stunning comeback
NBA, Sports
June 7, 2025
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The game plan was the obvious one. Just chip away, the Indiana Pacers said, because there was no other option that would have made any sense at that point. They were down by 15 wi...
NBA, Sports
June 4, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Thibodeau just took the New York Knicks to the Eastern Conference finals, the deepest playoff march in 25 years for a franchise that reemerged as a contender after he became their ...
Daigneault knows how to win championships
NBA, Sports
By By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer 
June 3, 2025
Oklahoma City’s Mark Daigneault has the best record of any coach in the NBA this season. And he has the second-best record of any coach in his house. Daigneault is a coach, and a coach’s husband, too....
Pacers look to overcome snake-bitten history
NBA, Sports
June 3, 2025
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Pacers have finally ended the franchise’s 25-year NBA Finals drought, achieving the unthinkable after starting 1015 and looking like anything but a title contender. Now Indiana...
Different paths to NBA Finals for Indiana, Oklahoma City
NBA, Sports
By By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer 
June 2, 2025
Oklahoma City spent most of the regular season alone atop the Western Conference standings and just kept adding to its lead. Indiana didn’t spend a single day atop the Eastern Conference standings and...
NBA, Sports
May 31, 2025
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Pacers wasted one chance to wrap up the Eastern Conference finals. They don’t intend to let it happen again. On Saturday, two nights after an uncharacteristically poor ...
NBA, Sports
May 29, 2025
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton wanted to play well with his father, John, back in Gainbridge Fieldhouse for the first time in two-plus weeks Tuesday night. That wasn’t the ...
Haliburton’s triple-double sets up potential close-out game
NBA, Sports
May 28, 2025
The Pacers can reach the NBA Finals with a win Thursday in New York City. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Tyrese Haliburton had 32 points, 15 assists and 12 rebounds without a turnover in a sensational postseason...
Siakam’s 39 leads Pacers to 2-0 series lead over Knicks
NBA, Sports
May 24, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Pascal Siakam scored a playoff career-high 39 points, and the Indiana Pacers beat the New York Knicks 114-109 on Friday night for a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference finals. Myles Tur...
Thunder’s SGA wins MVP, continuing run for international players
NBA, Sports
By By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer 
May 23, 2025
The case for Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was simple. He’s the best player on an Oklahoma City Thunder team that had the best record this season and set a league mark for margin of victory. If that wasn’t ...
WCWS shaping up to be an SEC showcase
NBA, Sports
May 22, 2025
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Softball’s super regionals are looking a lot like a Southeastern Conference tournament. Liberty knocked out top overall seed Texas A&M, an SEC member, in the regional round. Even ...
With final four set, NBA parity reigns again
NBA, Sports
By By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer 
May 19, 2025
The parity era continues in the NBA. The New York Knicks haven’t won an NBA championship since 1973. The Indiana Pacers won their most recent title that year — in the ABA. The Oklahoma City Thunder fr...
NBA, Sports
May 17, 2025
DENVER (AP) — Oklahoma City ran away with the Western Conference’s top seed, winning an NBA-best 68 games, including a record 54 by double digits. The Denver Nuggets didn’t have the Thunder’s youthful...
SGA’s 31 points lead OKC to 3-2 series lead over Nuggets
NBA, Sports
May 15, 2025
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 31 points, and the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Denver Nuggets 112-105 on Tuesday night to go up 3-2 in their Western Con- ference semifinal serie...
Injuries becoming the story of the NBA playoffs
NBA, Sports
By By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer 
May 14, 2025
These are the NBA playoffs of survival, where not even the stars are safe. The latest blow to this postseason: Jayson Tatum was wheeled off Monday night, his season with the defending champion Boston ...
Trail Blazers to go up for sale, owner’s estate says
NBA, Sports
May 14, 2025
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Paul Allen’s estate announced Tuesday that it has begun the process of selling the Portland Trail Blazers. The sale of the team is “consistent with Allen’s directive to eventuall...
Dallas beats the odds to win NBA lottery
NBA, Sports
May 13, 2025
The Mavericks had only a 1.8% chance of getting the top pick – and a chance to draft Duke’s Cooper Flagg. CHICAGO (AP) — The ping-pong balls have spoken: Cooper Flagg might be headed to Dallas to star...