The Thunder's historic title (and a massive what-if) |

23/06/2025 12:35 - The Pulse Newsletter 📣 | This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! Try not to get ejected today. History will remember Oklahoma City's Game 7 win last night as a coronation. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the young Thunder ascended into the pantheon of NBA greats with a legendary season, capped by the franchise's first title since moving to OKC. That's all deserved, too.  But I will remember this series as a strange and surprising delight, bookended by one of the biggest what-ifs in recent memory.