{"id":75611,"date":"2025-06-04T05:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T05:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/75611\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T05:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T05:47:11","slug":"nba-legend-magic-johnson-predicts-an-intense-game-between-indiana-pacers-vs-oklahoma-city-thunder-nba-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/75611\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Legend Magic Johnson predicts an intense game between Indiana Pacers Vs Oklahoma City Thunder | NBA News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NBANBA Legend Magic Johnson predicts an intense game between Indiana Pacers Vs Oklahoma City Thunder (Image Source: Getty) With the upcoming NBA series, all eyes are now on how the Indiana Pacers and Oklahoma City Thunder will play out. The two teams worked on maintaining solid points and also had pretty strong defence. NBA legend Magic Johnson spoke about how the series will see a close battle between two of the best NBA players currently, with Tyrese Haliburton from the Indiana Pacers and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander from Oklahoma City Thunder. Johnson believes the two have given their best performances.<\/p>\n

Magic Johnson says all eyes on Tyrese Haliburton and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander <\/p>\n

It is going to be exciting. Magic Johnson took to X, where he said, \u201cThe Pacers vs. OKC Series will be a lot closer than people think! It\u2019ll be a truly exciting series because both the Pacers and the Thunder average well over 100 points per game (ppg) ranking 2nd and 3rd for ppg in the NBA respectively while still being two of the best defensive teams in basketball.\u201dFurther, Johnson said, in another post, \u201cYou have the NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and in my opinion, the MVP throughout the entire Western Conference Playoffs on one side. On the other side we have – Tyrese Haliburton, who in my opinion, was Eastern Conference MVP throughout the entire Playoffs. This will be an all-time great point guard matchup!\u201dThe teams are excited, so are the fans and the team managers. Oklahoma City Thunders coach Mark Daigneault said, \u201cI think this finals is a great representation with the two teams that are in it, You know, they\u2019re teams that play good, exciting styles of basketball. Players that have great individual stories, teams that have a great story collectively. And we\u2019re proud to be a part of that.\u201dMeanwhile, Indiana Pacers\u2019 Tyrese Haliburton said what fans can expect, \u201cI think (they\u2019ll see) two high-level teams that play an elite style of basketball, who share the ball really well, and a lot of different people that can chip in.\u201dHaliburton said, \u201cI think that\u2019s the exciting part about this. I don\u2019t want to say it\u2019s like a passing of the torch because the old heads are still here.\u201d\u201cThey\u2019re still playing very, very well. But definitely to see two young teams, two young organizations, fighting to win a championship, I think is a very big deal,\u201d Haliburton added. Also Read: \u201cBiggest Question Is Why?\u201d \u2013 Los Angeles Lakers Legend Magic Johnson Was In Awe After News Of Tom Thibodeau Getting Fired From New York Knicks Broke The Internet<\/a>Haliburton and SGA have been pretty excellent this season, and it shows. Now, all eyes are on the game between Indiana Pacers and Oklahoma City Thunder. It\u2019s a game very closely played. When NBA legend Magic Johnson believes in a player, fans should keep an eye on their performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBA Legend Magic Johnson predicts an intense game between Indiana Pacers Vs Oklahoma City Thunder (Image Source: Getty)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[7,17440,17441,16719,17439,6,5134,310,475,179,3966,3965,209,312,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-75611","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-basketball-championship","10":"tag-eastern-conference-mvp","11":"tag-indiana-pacers-vs-oklahoma-city-thunder","12":"tag-magic-johnson-predictions","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-nba-playoffs-2023","15":"tag-oklahoma","16":"tag-oklahoma-city","17":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","18":"tag-oklahomacity","19":"tag-oklahomacitythunder","20":"tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","21":"tag-thunder","22":"tag-tyrese-haliburton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114623522082671965","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75611","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=75611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}