In the US, the basketball team "Oklahoma City Thunder" won its first NBA championship in the club's history, writes **UNN** with reference to ESPN.
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Oklahoma City Thunder won the 2025 NBA championship - the first in the franchise's 17-year existence - with a 103-91 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Sunday in Game 7 of the NBA Finals.
The Thunder went from winning 22 and 24 games respectively in 2020-21 and 2021-22 to securing the top seed in the Western Conference playoffs in each of the last two seasons. They followed up a 56-win campaign last season by winning 68 games in 2024-25 - one of the seven best single-season records in NBA history. They set the record for the largest point differential of all-time in the regular season, breaking a record that had stood for over half a century.
Ultimately, Oklahoma City won 84 games between the regular season and playoffs, tying the 1996-97 Chicago Bulls for the most wins in any season. Only the Golden State Warriors (88 in 2016-17) and the Bulls (87 in 2015-16) won more.
The Oklahoma City Thunder's 103-91 victory in Game 7 of the NBA Finals on Sunday was a "coronation" for a franchise that won its first title since moving to Oklahoma City.
It was also a "coronation" for star guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, who just completed one of the most successful individual seasons in NBA history, scoring 29 points and dishing out 12 assists in the Finals, becoming only the fifth player with a 20-10 performance in Game 7 of the Finals. In the 2024-25 campaign, Gilgeous-Alexander won the scoring title, NBA MVP, and the championship, leading his team to the best point differential.
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