{"id":130837,"date":"2025-06-28T06:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T06:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/130837\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T06:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T06:11:11","slug":"jalen-williams-had-doris-burke-message-after-nba-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/130837\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalen Williams Had Doris Burke Message After NBA Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jalen Williams Had Doris Burke Message After NBA Finals<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Oklahoma City Thunder just capped off their dominant season by defeating the Indiana Pacers in the NBA Finals. It was just their second-ever trip to the finals, the first coming in 2012 when their trio of Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, and James Harden fell to the LeBron James-led Miami Heat.<\/p>\n

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The Thunder were determined to make this trip to the Finals better than the last one, and they did just that. They finished the regular season third in offensive efficiency and first in defensive efficiency. It also helped that Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was the best player in the league this season and led the league in scoring.<\/p>\n

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Jalen Williams had Doris Burke message after NBA Finals<\/p>\n

While Gilgeous-Alexander might be considered the “Batman” of their team and Jalen Williams the “Robin,” there were games where it could have gone either way. In Game 5, with the series tied at two games apiece, Williams had a statement game, finishing with 40 points.<\/p>\n

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Following their NBA Finals win, Williams sent a message regarding ESPN’s Doris Burke and her commentary on the finals after a viral video.<\/p>\n

“I gotta rewatch the games,” Williams said in reaction to the video. “I was not aware she hated us.”<\/p>\n

Burke is not a fan favorite among announcers. It’s not uncommon to believe that certain announcers have biases with specific teams, but Burke has the rare talent that makes it seem like she hates both teams she’s commentating on.<\/p>\n

During the Western Conference Finals, she received some flak when she called Gilgeous-Alexander a “free-throw merchant” in Game 1 of the series.<\/p>\n

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“\u201cOklahoma City fans took exception to that. They didn\u2019t like it,\u201d Burke said via the New York Post<\/a>. \u201cAnd usually, I can tell I feel like I\u2019m doing a decent job when multiple fan bases are pissed off at me \u2026 at various times, Boston fans think I hate them, Knicks fans think I hate them, Sixers fans, and now Oklahoma City\u2019s like, \u2018why doesn\u2019t Doris like SGA?\u2019 I love SGA. Absolutely love him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Burke isn’t going away anytime soon, but it doesn’t mean fans will come around and begin to like her, particularly the fanbases she mentioned in the above quote.<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 28, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jalen Williams Had Doris Burke Message After NBA Finals originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The Oklahoma City Thunder…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,45,13027,113,126,3866,364,560,938,304,516,189,6,1220,475,179,114,254,209,3460],"class_list":{"0":"post-130837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indiana-pacers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-doris-burke","11":"tag-indiana","12":"tag-indiana-pacers","13":"tag-indianapacers","14":"tag-jalen-williams","15":"tag-james-harden","16":"tag-kevin-durant","17":"tag-knicks","18":"tag-lebron","19":"tag-miami-heat","20":"tag-nba","21":"tag-nba-finals","22":"tag-oklahoma-city","23":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","24":"tag-pacers","25":"tag-russell-westbrook","26":"tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","27":"tag-western-conference-finals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114759512039772634","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130837","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=130837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}