Thunder advance to NBA Finals
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What are the highlights of the Thunder's victory?
Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for May 29th, 2025. Coming up, the Thunder are in the finals, so John Krasinski's here to talk about that. Zena Kate and I are going to talk a little bit about how ridiculous Shea Gildress Alexander's been. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, Zena. How's it going? It's going well. Doubling up. Yeah, going great. We're going to OKC. Oh, wait. Some of us are going to OKC. The Thunder have made the finals. The best team all year long. 68 wins. They checked every single box. They beat Jokic. They've done it. They've made the finals. Are you surprised at all, Zena?
Not even in a little bit. Like the fact that you didn't even mention Memphis is hilarious, but yes. Yeah. I was thinking of the basketball team. Took care of Jokic. Now they took care of Ant-Man and they're on their way to the finals. Good for them.
Yeah. Shea Gildas Alexander was named the conference finals MVP, which is got to say we've got too many awards. The Oscar Robertson Oscar Robertson Western Conference Finals trophy is for the team. The Magic Johnson Western Conference Finals MVP goes to Shea Gildas Alexander. Got to say, by the way, shout out to Clay Bennett. owner of the thunder. He, you know, they always award these things to the owner. He immediately just turns and kind of pushes it up to the guys. Like that's how you're supposed to do it. Although I got to say the Florida Panthers made the Stanley cup finals. And I like the hockey tradition of not touching the, the conference finals trophy as like, well, we don't want that. That's not the one we want to touch.
How impressive has Shea Gildress Alexander been this season?
You got to wait for the Stanley cup. Where do you side on that? Is it good? Should you celebrate every trophy or, or should you celebrate the one?
No, I like I like the thought of it in the sense of it makes me think of the Kobe quote, right? Like business isn't finished yet. That's cute, but that's not the goal. You don't want to get too happy with that, like that hardware. It doesn't mean anything when the real championship is coming. So that's right.
So she gives us Alexander. You're still a scrub until you get that finals MVP, right? Yeah. Honestly, I'm just kidding. I mean, we did it to Steph. We got to do it to Shea. Okay. So Shea, he goes, I mean, 34 points, eight assists, seven rebounds. Another just, you know, this is run of the mill for Shea at this point. Yeah. I mean...
how else can we talk about Shea's game?
I mean, we're at the point where it's about historical comparisons and precedents.
What awards has Shea Gildress Alexander won?
Yes. Okay, okay. No, listen, Dave. Literally, all I was doing right after the win, because let's just be real. Shea It's like watching music. On offense, he's smooth. It's beautiful the way that he yo-yos with the ball. He makes basketball look easy. It almost is a mockery of the game and how good he can be with the ball in his hands, but then also how good he is in setting up his teammates. So that's cool. We've watched it. We've seen it all season. He's the scoring champ. He's the MVP. He's now this conference finals MVP that I didn't even realize existed. I forgot, I guess. But he's done all these things. So I'm scouring X, Blue Sky, all the social media platforms, just curious, how are other people trying to summarize Shea's game?
And it's funny because everyone else is also out of words. So all they've done now is try to compare him to other players in history. So I have like at least 20 different tweets and blue sky, whatever you call them, of different ways that he measures up. I'll take you. I'll give you one. First, Shea is the first player to win MVP in the regular season and then go on to win the conference finals MVP. Interesting. Didn't know that.
I think it's a new award.
How does Shea compare to other historical players?
New award. Yeah, relatively new award. First player to win the MVP and then go on to the NBA finals since Steph Curry in 2016. Players to win MVP and reach the NBA finals in the last 20 years. So Steph Curry did that two times. LeBron James did that two times. Kobe Bryant, right? Steph, LeBron, Kobe, now Shea. Okay, that's another one.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What are the highlights of the Thunder's victory?
0:07–1:57
2
How impressive has Shea Gildress Alexander been this season?
1:57–2:55
3
What awards has Shea Gildress Alexander won?
2:55–4:16
4
How does Shea compare to other historical players?
4:16–7:32
5
What challenges did the Timberwolves face in the finals?
7:32–10:54
6
What is the future outlook for the Thunder team?
10:54–20:57