The NBA finals will go to a winner-take-all Game 7 after the Indiana Pacers beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 108-91.
Obi Toppin scored 20 points, Andrew Nembhard added 17 and Pascal Siakam had 16 points and 13 rebounds for Indiana in a clutch win.
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Tyrese Haliburton — playing through a strained calf — scored 14 points for the Pacers, who started slowly and then turned things into a blowout.
“We just wanted to protect home court,” Haliburton said. “We didn’t want to see these guys celebrate a championship on our home floor. Backs against the wall and we just responded. … Total team effort.”
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 21 points for the Thunder, who pulled their starters after getting down by 30 going into the fourth.
Game 7, the first one in the NBA Finals since 2016, will be on Sunday night in Oklahoma City.
Home teams are 15-4 in the ultimate game to decide a title. But Cleveland won at Golden State in the most recent NBA Finals Game 7 and one of the three other home-team losses was in 1978 — by Seattle, the franchise that would move to Oklahoma City three decades later.
“Credit Indiana,” Thunder coach Mark Daigneault said. “They earned the win. They outplayed us for most of the 48 minutes. They went out there and attacked the game.”
