{"id":39505,"date":"2025-05-17T16:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T16:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/39505\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T16:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T16:23:13","slug":"watch-the-thunder-nuggets-game-sunday-on-denver7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/39505\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the Thunder-Nuggets game Sunday on Denver7"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the first time since 2000, the New York Knicks are in the NBA<\/a> final four.<\/p>\n

It’ll be the Knicks and the Indiana Pacers in the Eastern Conference finals, after New York \u2014 fueled by 20,000 people inside Madison Square Garden and what seemed to be many more shutting down 33rd St. and 7th Ave. outside the world’s most famous arena \u2014 eliminated defending champion Boston on Friday night.<\/p>\n

With that, the field is down to five. Indiana-New York \u2014 a rematch of the 2000 East finals \u2014 on one side of the bracket, and either Oklahoma City or Denver taking on Minnesota in the West finals.<\/p>\n

The Thunder-Nuggets game is Sunday in Oklahoma City, but Nuggets forward Aaron Gordon is “in doubt” for Sunday’s game<\/a> after suffering a left hamstring strain, according to several outlets.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s national TV schedule<\/p>\n

No games scheduled.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s national TV schedule<\/p>\n

All times Mountain<\/p>\n

1:30 p.m. \u2014 Denver at Oklahoma City (Denver7)<\/p>\n

Monday’s national TV schedule<\/p>\n

No games scheduled.<\/p>\n

Tuesday’s national TV schedule<\/p>\n

All times Mountain<\/p>\n

6:30 p.m. \u2014 Minnesota at Oklahoma City or Denver (ESPN)<\/p>\n

Betting odds<\/p>\n

Oklahoma City (+110) remains the favorite to win the NBA title, according to BetMGM Sportsbook. New York (+350) jumped into the second-choice spot after clinching its trip to the East finals.<\/p>\n

From there, it’s Minnesota (+450), Indiana (+650) and Denver (+900).<\/p>\n

Conference finals schedules<\/p>\n

Now we know the schedules for Round 3 of the NBA playoffs, the conference finals.<\/p>\n

New York has home-court advantage over Indiana in the East finals. Game 1 is Wednesday, followed by Game 2 on Friday, Game 3 on May 25, Game 4 on May 27, Game 5 on May 29, Game 6 on May 31 and a Game 7 would be June 2. All those games are 8 p.m. Eastern starts on TNT.<\/p>\n

The West finals schedule will see the Oklahoma City-Denver winner having the home-court edge on Minnesota: Game 1 will be Tuesday, and Game 2 will follow on Thursday.<\/p>\n

From there: Game 3 is May 24, Game 4 is May 26, Game 5 is May 28, Game 6 is May 30 and Game 7 would be June 1.<\/p>\n

An Indy doubleheader<\/p>\n

Mark your calendars, then start your engines.<\/p>\n

For the first time since 2013, Indianapolis will play host to the Indianapolis 500 and a Pacers home game on the same day.<\/p>\n

It’ll happen May 25. The race starts the day, then Game 3 of the East finals is that night in Indy.<\/p>\n

Award season<\/p>\n

There’s no word yet on when the NBA will announce this season’s MVP. It’ll be Oklahoma City’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Denver’s Nikola Jokic or Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo.<\/p>\n

Also coming in the next few weeks: the All-NBA, All-Rookie and All-Defensive teams.<\/p>\n

Other awards so far:<\/p>\n

\u2014 Oklahoma City’s Sam Presti won executive of the year.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Cleveland’s Kenny Atkinson won coach of the year.<\/a> He also won the same award from the National Basketball Coaches Association.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Boston’s Jrue Holiday won the social justice award<\/a> and the sportsmanship award.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Atlanta\u2019s Dyson Daniels won most improved player.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 San Antonio’s Stephon Castle won rookie of the year.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Golden State’s Stephen Curry won the Twyman-Stokes teammate of the year award.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Golden State’s Draymond Green won the hustle award.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Cleveland\u2019s Evan Mobley won defensive player of the year.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 New York’s Jalen Brunson won clutch player of the year.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Boston’s Payton Pritchard won sixth man of the year.<\/a><\/p>\n

Scoring leaders<\/p>\n

The highest-scoring games by players so far in this year’s playoffs:<\/p>\n

48 \u2014 Donovan Mitchell, Cleveland vs. Indiana, May 6<\/p>\n

44 \u2014 Nikola Jokic, Denver at Oklahoma City, May 13<\/p>\n

43 \u2014 Donovan Mitchell, Cleveland vs. Indiana, May 9<\/p>\n

43 \u2014 Jamal Murray, Denver vs. LA Clippers, April 29<\/p>\n

43 \u2014 Anthony Edwards, Minnesota vs. LA Lakers, April 27<\/p>\n

42 \u2014 Jayson Tatum, Boston at New York, May 12<\/p>\n

42 \u2014 Nikola Jokic, Denver at Oklahoma City, May 5<\/p>\n

40 \u2014 Jalen Brunson, New York at Detroit, May 1<\/p>\n

39 \u2014 Jalen Brunson, New York vs. Boston, May 12<\/p>\n

39 \u2014 Kawhi Leonard, LA Clippers at Denver, April 21<\/p>\n

Key upcoming events<\/p>\n

Tuesday \u2014 Game 1, Western Conference finals.<\/p>\n

Wednesday \u2014 Game 1, Eastern Conference finals.<\/p>\n

June 1 \u2014 Last possible date for Game 7 of the Western Conference finals.<\/p>\n

June 2 \u2014 Last possible date for Game 7 of Eastern Conference finals.<\/p>\n

June 5 \u2014 Game 1, NBA Finals. (Other games: June 8, June 11, June 13, June 16, June 19 and Game 7, if necessary, will be June 22.)<\/p>\n

June 25 \u2014 NBA draft, first round.<\/p>\n

June 26 \u2014 NBA draft, second round.<\/p>\n

Draft lottery<\/p>\n

Dallas had 1.8% odds to win the No. 1 pick in the draft lottery \u2014 but overcame those odds and now has the opportunity to draft Cooper Flagg. The Mavericks won the lottery on Monday night in Chicago.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Flagg, just a kid from Maine, hasn’t forgotten his roots<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 From Rutgers to the lottery for Harper, Bailey<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 A Chinese teen is a draft hopeful, and has big shoes to fill<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Mavs win lottery<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Rick Welts has seen this before<\/a><\/p>\n

Stories of note<\/p>\n

\u2014 Stephen Curry ponders his \u2018basketball mortality\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Phil Knight not interested in buying Trail Blazers<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Pat Riley speaks: On Heat future, on Jimmy Butler, on being 80<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 These are the playoffs of the big comeback, where no 20-point lead is safe.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Gregg Popovich’s new job: \u2018El Jefe\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Spurs coach Gregg Popovich steps down.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Mitch Johnson takes over for Pop in San Antonio.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Appreciation: Gregg Popovich changed the NBA.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 A look inside the numbers of this season, headed into the playoffs<\/a><\/p>\n

Comeback season<\/p>\n

There have been five wins by teams that trailed by 20 points or more so far in these playoffs. That’s the most in any postseason during the play-by-play era, which started with the 1997 playoffs.<\/p>\n

The biggest deficits that were successfully overcome:<\/p>\n

29 \u2014 Oklahoma City at Memphis, April 24 (Thunder won 114-108)<\/p>\n

20 \u2014 Indiana vs. Milwaukee, April 29 (Pacers won 119-118)<\/p>\n

20 \u2014 New York at Boston, May 5 (Knicks won 108-105)<\/p>\n

20 \u2014 Indiana at Cleveland, May 6 (Pacers won 120-119)<\/p>\n

20 \u2014 New York at Boston, May 7 (Knicks won 91-90)<\/p>\n

Stats of the day<\/p>\n

\u2014 Boston’s loss means this will be the seventh consecutive year without a back-to-back champion in the NBA. Golden State was the last of those in 2017 and 2018.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Including playoffs, OG Anunoby is now the sixth player in Knicks history with 200 3-pointers in a season. The others: Donte DiVincenzo (328 last season), John Starks (247 in 1994-95), Evan Fournier (241 in 2021-22), Jalen Brunson (237 last season) and Julius Randle (235 in 2022-23).<\/p>\n

\u2014 The Celtics finished the season with 1,613 3-pointers, which is 13 shy of the NBA-record total they made last season. Those 13 missing 3s obviously add up to 39 points; they lost Game 6 to New York by 38 points.<\/p>\n

Quote of the day<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the price you pay for trying to go after something. And that\u2019s how it goes.\u201d \u2014 Boston coach Joe Mazzulla, after the Celtics were eliminated by the Knicks.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time since 2000, the New York Knicks are in the NBA final four. It’ll be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[4213,877,7,4214,561,4215,4216,761,4217,4218,4219,6,310,475,179,3966,3965,312],"class_list":{"0":"post-39505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oklahoma-city-thunder","8":"tag-2024-denver-nuggets-roster","9":"tag-aaron-gordon","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-braxton-key","12":"tag-christian-braun","13":"tag-coach-of-the-denver-nuggets","14":"tag-collin-gillespie","15":"tag-deandre-jordan","16":"tag-den","17":"tag-denver-nuggets-basketball-schedule","18":"tag-denver-nuggets-coach","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-oklahoma","21":"tag-oklahoma-city","22":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","23":"tag-oklahomacity","24":"tag-oklahomacitythunder","25":"tag-thunder"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114524101242842465","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39505","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=39505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}