Thunder accepted their trophy after winning the NBA Finals<\/a> on Sunday night. Pretty quickly, Elijah stole the show during the ceremony.<\/p>\n\u201cI don\u2019t know why he\u2019s asleep right now, but I guess it\u2019s not loud enough,\u201d Hartenstein joked before waving at the crowd.<\/p>\n
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Throughout it all, Elijah didn\u2019t flinch \u2014 and that drew plenty of attention.<\/p>\n
Hartenstein had seven points and nine rebounds in the Thunder\u2019s 103-91 win over the Indiana Pacers in Game 7 on Sunday night, which gave them the franchise\u2019s first NBA title since it relocated from Seattle to Oklahoma City. Hartenstein averaged 5.6 points and 6.7 rebounds throughout the NBA Finals. The 27-year-old just finished his first year of a three-year, $87 million deal with the Thunder.<\/p>\n
While Elijah wasn\u2019t actually awake for the trophy portion of the ceremony on Sunday night, he was seen with his eyes open for a little bit of it. And, above all else, at least he was there. That\u2019s a moment his dad is sure to remember for the rest of his life, even if Elijah can\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elijah Hartenstein missed a major milestone in his dad\u2019s professional career on Sunday night, though it\u2019s hard to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,948,126,938,6,1220,11,475],"class_list":{"0":"post-117820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-playoffs","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-hartenstein","10":"tag-indiana-pacers","11":"tag-kevin-durant","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-finals","14":"tag-nba-playoffs","15":"tag-oklahoma-city"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117820","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=117820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}