The NBAs officially renamed tournament in the season The Emirates NBA Cup In 2024 – was looking for a characteristic moment to strengthen its meaning with fans, and the 2025 NBA Finals -Matchup between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Indiana Pacers may have just created it.
Why? Well, because Oklahoma City and Indiana have something in common, apart from two of the smallest markets of the competition: they are also the last two second in the NBA Cup, Pacers at the Los Angeles Lakers In the inaugural Las Vegas competition in 2023, and losing thunder at the Milwaukee Bucks In the 2024 version.
It is clear that both teams were motivated by losing on the largest stage that the competition has to offer: a neutral court in Las Vegas in December, and are motivated to win the outdated tournament after the season that set the competition as a sort of comfort bracket with many land lanes as a result.
This is also a reminder that both ist champions-de lakers and bucks-leaf in the first round of the subsequent play-offs, which shows that #thecup also offers a championship hand over to its winners, where it is cemented as A real, banner -worthy tournament.
But although this championship series should be fun, we unfortunately have to wait until next season to see if the Pacers or Bucks can use their experience in the final to catapult them to an even more meaningful price next year: $ 500,000 for every player on the Roster of the NBA Cup Champion.
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