{"id":115704,"date":"2025-06-22T03:43:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T03:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/115704\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T03:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T03:43:13","slug":"obi-toppin-cant-wait-for-game-7-of-nba-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/115704\/","title":{"rendered":"Obi Toppin ‘can’t wait’ for Game 7 of NBA Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toppin will be the first former Flyer to play in a Game 7 in the NBA Finals since Hank Finkel in 1974. Finkel played one minute for the Boston Celtics in a 102-87 victory against the Milwaukee Bucks.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t wait to get to this game tomorrow,\u201d Toppin told reporters in Oklahoma City. \u201cWe grew up our whole lives wanting to play in a Game 7 in the NBA Finals. It\u2019s going to be fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Toppin led the Pacers with 20 points<\/a> Thursday in a 108-91 victory in Game 6.<\/p>\n

Toppin scored 17 points in Game 1, 3 in Game 2, 8 in game 3, 12 in Game 4 and 17 in Game 5. He has the Pacers\u2019 third-highest scoring average (12.8 points per game) in the finals after ranking sixth in the regular season (10.5).<\/p>\n

Toppin is shooting 39.4% from 3-point range (13 of 33) in the finals.<\/p>\n

Either the Pacers or Thunder will take home their first NBA title, though the Pacers won three ABA titles, and the Thunder won the 1979 NBA title when they were the Seattle Supersonics.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be two great teams playing really hard,\u201d Toppin said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a while since both teams got a championship. So for us to play against each other in the Game 7, it\u2019s going to be good basketball.\u201d<\/p>\n

Each team is 1-2 on the road in the finals. The Pacers won Game 1 in Oklahoma City on a buzzer-beating jump shot by Tyrese Haliburton. Oklahoma City is 10-2 at home in the playoffs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re definitely going to have the crowd\u2019s energy,\u201d Toppin said. \u201cBut we want to celebrate on that floor. We have to have the same mentality we had in Game 6 to get the job done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toppin will be the first former Flyer to play in a Game 7 in the NBA Finals since…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23890,7,23889,448,6,11,3559,447],"class_list":{"0":"post-115704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-playoffs","8":"tag-2024-2025-mideast-wars","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-bombings","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-playoffs","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114724956132316809","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}