Teams that win Game 5 of a 2-2 best-of-seven NBA playoff series have gone on to win the series 81.3% of the time (191-44).

SportsLine's model simulated Oklahoma City vs. Denver 10,000 times and revealed its NBA picks for Sunday's 2025 Western Conference semifinal matchup

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 25 points and the Oklahoma City Thunder finally outplayed Denver in crunch time, beating the Nuggets 92-87 Sunday to knot their second-round series at two games each.

The NBA is down to four second-round playoff series, but two stick out for reasons other than the intriguing on-court matchups. There have been few complaints about the scheduling of the Indiana Pacers-Cleveland Cavaliers or New York Knicks-Boston Celtics series,

Magic Johnson is a big Nikola Jokic fan. In Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals between the Denver Nuggets and Oklahoma City Thunder, All-NBA big man, N