after losing Game 1 at home<\/a>, 111-110, in nearly inexplicable fashion, blowing a 15-point lead before losing on Tyrese Haliburton’s game-winning shot with 0.3 seconds left on the clock? Does OKC shake the defeat off, chalking it up to a near-miraculous sequence by the Pacers?<\/p>\nAdvertisement<\/p>\n
On the other side, will Indiana involuntarily ease up after getting a win on the road and stay content with taking a 1-1 tie back to Gainbridge Fieldhouse? Or will the Pacers push down on the gas with the opportunity to go up 2-0 in the series and put the Thunder in a hole with the next two games on their home court?<\/p>\n
Teams with a 2-0 lead in the NBA Finals have a 93% winning percentage. Taking a 2-0 lead as the road team has resulted in a series win 84% of the time.<\/p>\n
How to watch Pacers-Thunder in Game 2 of NBA Finals<\/p>\n
Date: Sunday, June 8<\/p>\n
Time: 8 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
Location: Paycom Center | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma<\/p>\n
TV channel: ABC<\/p>\n
Follow along with Yahoo Sports for live updates, highlights and more from Game 2 of the 2025 NBA Finals:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a two-day break, the Oklahoma City Thunder and Indiana Pacers meet for Game 2 of the NBA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[7,126,1242,6,1220,378,310,475,179,3966,3965,312,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-85759","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-losing-game","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-nba-finals","13":"tag-okc","14":"tag-oklahoma","15":"tag-oklahoma-city","16":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","17":"tag-oklahomacity","18":"tag-oklahomacitythunder","19":"tag-thunder","20":"tag-tyrese-haliburton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114650524149269640","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85759","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=85759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}