{"id":7764,"date":"2025-05-04T03:10:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T03:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/7764\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T03:10:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T03:10:14","slug":"okc-thunder-to-face-nuggets-in-round-2-series-of-2025-nba-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/7764\/","title":{"rendered":"OKC Thunder to face Nuggets in Round 2 series of 2025 NBA playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/oklahoma-city-thunder\/25\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Oklahoma City Thunder;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> will face the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/denver-nuggets\/7\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Denver Nuggets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Denver Nuggets<\/a> in Round 2 of the 2025 NBA playoffs. After waiting a week, the first seed finally learned their opponent after the Nuggets blew out the Clippers in a 120-101 Game 7 win on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Nuggets had an all-around team effort. Six Denver players scored double-digit points. All five of their starters plus Russell Westbrook. Nikola Jokic underwhelmed with 16 points, but it didn&#8217;t matter as the rest of the team stepped up.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Thunder have rested for over a week. They swept the Memphis Grizzlies in their Round 1 series and earned some extra time off between their playoff series.<\/p>\n<p>The top storyline for this second-round matchup is Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Jokic. Both were the top two MVP candidates all season, as it looks like Gilgeous-Alexander will run away with the prestigious award.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunder will host the Nuggets for Game 1 on Monday, May 5. Both teams split their regular-season series at two wins apiece.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on OKC Thunder Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/okcthunderwire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/thunder\/2025\/05\/03\/okc-thunder-to-face-nuggets-in-round-2-series-of-2025-nba-playoffs\/83437102007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:OKC Thunder to face Nuggets in Round 2 series of 2025 NBA playoffs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">OKC Thunder to face Nuggets in Round 2 series of 2025 NBA playoffs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Oklahoma City Thunder will face the Denver Nuggets in Round 2 of the 2025 NBA playoffs. After&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,559,187,177,6,253,179,1165,254,209],"class_list":{"0":"post-7764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-clippers","10":"tag-denver-nuggets","11":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nikola-jokic","14":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","15":"tag-playoff-series","16":"tag-russell-westbrook","17":"tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114447373032151692","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7764","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=7764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}