The second time in the history of the NBA Finals point guards compete for the championship, is it a repeat of history or a story that goes over?
1:09am, 6 June 2025Basketball
The Oklahoma City Thunder meets the Indiana Pacers in the finals, and the peak showdown between Alexander and Halliburton is also quite fantastic in history.
The NBA has been in the finals since Magic Elvin Johnson met with Smiling Assassin Isaiah Thomas in 1988, for the first time since the NBA met with Magic Elvin Johnson and Smiling Assassin Isaiah Thomas in 1989. The closest ones may be Stephen Curry and Kyrie Irving? But in those years, the Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers fought hard in the finals, which was actually ace match between Stephen Curry and LeBron James. Although Irving scored the winning three-pointer in the 2016 finals tiebreak, the Cavaliers were undoubtedly James' team.
Recalling the 1988 Finals, Magic Johnson averaged 21.1 points, 5 rebounds, 13 assists and 2 steals per game, leading the Los Angeles Lakers to win the championship after a tiebreak victory over the Detroit Pistons. However, the teammate James Worthy, who averaged 22 points, 7.4 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game, led the team to win the championship because Worthy scored 36 points, 16 rebounds and 10 assists in the tiebreak. Does Halliburton and Siakam have a story in the Eastern Conference Finals?
The smiling assassin Isaiah Thomas sprained his right ankle in the sixth game of the finals, but he still insisted on returning to the field with an injury and scored an incredible 25 points in the third quarter, setting a record for the highest score in a single quarter in the finals. After missing the championship due to injury, Thomas led the Pistons to make a comeback the following year and met the Lakers again in the finals.
At that time, the Lakers broke through from the West with a complete victory, but Byron Scott and Magic Johnson both suffered injuries in the finals, while the Pistons completely crushed the Lakers swept 4-0 and won the first championship in the team history with their fierce and fierce defense. That year, the Pistons Dennis Rodman was awarded the best defensive player of the year and was selected for the best defensive team, and Joe Dumas was also selected for the best defensive team. At the same time, the Pistons also had defensive evil men such as Bill Ranbill and Thomas. Does it look like the story of Alexander and the Thunder?
Halilburton is not a magician, nor is Alexander a smiling assassin, but the figures of the two point guards fighting the finals seem to be a repeat of history. Can they create a happy ending in their respective stories?
In the two games against the Pacers in the regular season, Alexander averaged 39 points, 7 rebounds and 8 assists per game, with a shooting percentage of up to 55.6%. In fact, this is also Alexander's normal performance in this year's regular season. Among the other 29 teams in the league, 22 teams were scored at least 30 points per game by Alexander, and 21 teams were scored by Alexander with a shooting percentage of more than 50%.
In contrast, Halliburton averaged only 11 points, 3 rebounds, 5.5 assists per game against the Thunder in the regular season, and only received two free throws in total, which is very different from Alexander's performance of 21 free throws in 23 free throws. Halliburton is difficult to break through Dort's steel defense in the regular season. What's even more desperate is that the Thunder even have Jaylen Williams, Alex Caruso and Carson Wallace who can defend Halliburton.
If you want to compete with the legendary stories of your predecessors in the finals, Alexander and Halliburton should do their best to fight and defend, and the war is filled with smoke and the new king should stand. What they wrote in the finals will be a legendary story of this era.
The lintel of the glorious era can be found in the future.
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