Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Vincent Goodwill is joined by Boston Globe reporter Gary Washburn to discuss Sunday’s decisive game in the NBA Finals. Hear the full conversation on “Good Word with Goodwill” and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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What’s going to happen Sunday night at midnight Eastern time?
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Who’s going to hold up the Larry O’Brien trophy?
I’m gonna take the Pacers.
I’m gonna say the Pacers.
Let’s go.
Gary Weber the top.
You know me, you know my predictions of my voting to look always against the grain.
Like there’s teams of destiny.
There’s just teams like my ’88 Dodgers, there’s teams of destiny, your 04 Pistons.
The thing that gets me is that the teams who have won Game 6 to force it to game seven, the last 3 times, they’ve won the series.
2010, Lakers forced a game seven.
2013, heat forced a game 7.
2016, Cavaliers forced a game seven.
That’s a 3-1 thing.
I predicted Oklahoma City.
In 5 games.
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I did.
I was wrong.
I thought it was gonna be Oklahoma City in 6 games.
Clearly, I was wrong.
I tend to believe.
I don’t know how healthy Tyrese Halliburton is.
And I’m with you on the team of Destiny thing.
I think Jalen Williams has a game.
I think Jaylen Williams has a game that you cannot necessarily account for.
Jaylen Williams is the guy that nobody really has a match up for, and he had an ugly, ugly game 6.
He went from scoring 40 to a minus 40.
Be that as it may.
I’m calling it now.
JDub scores 30.
I don’t know if he’s still finals MVP because he’s had some, some stinkers, but here’s going to be the score.
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110, 105, Thunder win their first title and it does not come easy and it does not come pretty, but I think that’s the prediction, Gary.
All right, that’s fair.
That’s fair.
That’s fair.
I could be wrong.
We all have egg on my face.
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