{"id":686274,"date":"2026-03-29T16:44:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/686274\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T16:44:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:44:23","slug":"poll-is-knicks-thunder-game-an-nba-finals-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/686274\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Is Knicks-Thunder Game an NBA Finals Preview?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Athlon<\/a>Sun, March 29, 2026 at 11:00 AM UTC\"\"<\/p>\n

(Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images)<\/p>\n

[Editor\u2019s note: Welcome to Athlon Sports\u2019 poll of the day, where we ask readers to weigh in on the biggest topic of the day. Thanks for voting, and be sure to sound off in the comment section.]<\/p>\n

Sunday night\u2019s national NBA<\/a> game is a good one: New York Knicks<\/a> at Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> (NBC, 7:30 p.m. ET). Jalen Brunson<\/a> vs. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a>. These teams played three weeks ago, with the Thunder coming away with a 103-100 victory at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n

The defending-champion Thunder own the best record in the NBA and are the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference. The Knicks are currently the No. 3 seed in the East. New York was the No. 3 seed going into the playoffs last year and the reached the conferenc efinals \u2014 but a loss to the Indiana Pacers<\/a> in six games kept them from playing OKC in the Finals.<\/p>\n

Will this year be different?<\/p>\n

Thanks for voting \u2014 and if your answer is no, be sure to make your voice heard and tell us in the comments section who you think will be playing in the Finals.<\/p>\n

This story was originally published by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Mar 29, 2026, where it first appeared in the NBA<\/a> section. Add Athlon Sports as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sun, March 29, 2026 at 11:00 AM UTC (Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images) [Editor\u2019s note: Welcome to Athlon Sports\u2019 poll…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[7,126,288,6,1136,191,310,475,179,3966,3965,209,312,574],"class_list":{"0":"post-686274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oklahoma-city-thunder","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-indiana-pacers","10":"tag-jalen-brunson","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-knicks","14":"tag-oklahoma","15":"tag-oklahoma-city","16":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","17":"tag-oklahomacity","18":"tag-oklahomacitythunder","19":"tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","20":"tag-thunder","21":"tag-western-conference"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686274","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=686274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}