It will have been one finale “Little noble” and with the poor television appeal, as confirmed by the audience, but the final of the championship NBA It was a nice ending, finished at We are–7in which, as per prediction, he sprouted it Oklaholawriting for the first time the name of Thunder In the gold register of the most iconic League in the world, and not only of basketball.
The last episode of the series, the decisive one, the one that was worth the legendary ring, was substantially decided by the serious injury of the superstar In Indiana Tyrese Haliburtonwhen 4’55 “were missing on the time trial at the end of the first quarter.
Despite the injury of his most representative player, i Pacers they also tried to extract the rabbit from the cylinder, specifically that T.J. McConnell Who tries to keep the Pacers in the game almost alone, marking 12 of his 16 overall points in the third quarter.
In the end, however, the superiority of the Thunder comes out and the team of Mark DAIGNAULT It extends right in the third quarter, closed with the partial decisive of 34-20, for a double-digit advantage then maintained until the final 103-91.
To the final siren, here is the apotheosis of the Thunder, taken at the hands of the umpteenth performance of Shai Gilgeous–Alexanderwhich closes with 29 points, 12 assists and 5 rebounds, even in an evening certainly not unforgettable to shooting, with 8/27 from the field.
A real MVP performance, moreover, we are talking about a player, better than a superstar that this season has made Mvp titles: MVP of the regular season, MVP of the Conference finals, MVP of the final.
Of the final, in addition to the show and the reviewable television indices-moreover Okhlahoma-Indiana certainly does not have the same appeal as, for example, Celtics-Lakers-the plastic testimony of the great vitality of the NBA planet remains, in which the dynasties are an exception and certainly not normal, as often happens in the European championships, for example in Spain (Real Madrid-Barcelona), Greece (Panathinaikos and Olympiakos). LBA, where for years there has been the Duopolio Olimpia Milano – Virtus Bologna.
Instead, beyond the ocean are good at creating, through the mechanism of the choices, a tournament in which the prediction is never taken for granted, so much so that in the last seven years they have won seven different teams and to find a team that has granted the encore you have to go back to 2018, when the Golden State Warrios beat the triumph obtained twelve months before.
Not only that, in the last seven editions of the League, there were three teams that had never done it before.
We are talking about the Toronto Raptors taken by the hand of Kawhi Leonard, the Denver Nuggets of Nikola Jokic and, now, of the Oklahoma Thunder, dragged by that phenomenon that has proved to be Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.
Moral of the fairy tale? Beyond the eventual, and certainly not remote, the possibility of the Thunders to open a cycle, the one that can be seen by analyzing the whole historical excursus of the most seen and appreciated League in the world is the ability to renew itself continuously, bringing to the highest stage in the world always different protagonists, which certainly represents an added value, beyond the ephemeral TV indices, of the most plain championship in the world.
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