Seventeen years after the Sonics left town, Oklahoma City’s run to the NBA Finals feels to fans like “they’re making you watch your ex get married.”

Some of the league's best young talent will be on display during the 2025 NBA Finals, with the Thunder battling the Pacers. Oklahoma City ripped through the Western Conference playoffs on the heels of a historic regular season,

Tyrese Haliburton and the Pacers lead the series 3-2 and won convincingly in Game 4 the last time they were at home, but Jalen Brunson and the Knicks turned in their best performance of the series in Game 5 in New York and have the momentum as they look to force a Game 7 that would take place Monday at Madison Square Garden.

Indiana pulled away from New York in Game 6 on Saturday night, setting up a matchup with the Oklahoma City Thunder to decide a championship.

It’s the Paul George finals — albeit without George, whose trade from Indiana to Oklahoma City in 2017 planted the seeds for the 2025 NBA Finals.

Shawn Kemp, who spent the majority of his NBA career with the Seattle SuperSonics, entered a guilty plea in the 2023 shooting outside the Tacoma Mall in Washington state.The Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office confirmed that Kemp admitted to second-degree assault in the incident.

Here we'll try to look at the Seattle Seahawks rookie who really stood out the most during the team's 2025 minicamp.

The biggest favorites in NBA Finals history were the 2001 Los Angeles Lakers, who were -2000 against the Philadelphia 76ers and won the series in five games. The 2018 champion Golden State Warriors were the second biggest of all time as -1075 favorites over the Cleveland Cavaliers.

1979 — NBA Finals: Seattle Supersonics beat Washington Bullets, 97-93 for a 4-1 series victory; Seattle’s first major pro sports championship win. 1986 — Pat Bradley wins the LPGA tournament and becomes the first to win all four major women’s tournaments, beating Patty Sheehan by one stroke.

Detroit didn’t get to see its Pistons make the NBA Finals this year, and Seattle still lacks an NBA team. But residents of both cities can look forward to something