Whose reign will end title drought?
The Knicks, Pacers, Thunder and Timberwolves are all chasing history
Who has the edge?
If the NBA's final four was its own league this season, taking just the head-to-head results between those four clubs would suggest the Thunder is the clear favorite.
Oklahoma City went 6-2 against the other three conference finalists, while New York and Indiana both went 3-4 and Minnesota went 3-5.
The Thunder swept the Pacers and Knicks, and the Pacers swept the Timberwolves.
As far as the head-to-heads going into the conference finals, Oklahoma City and Minnesota split four meetings — with the Timberwolves outscoring the Thunder 475-472 — while the Knicks went 2-1 against Indiana, with all three games decided by at least 11 points.
"You can feel good about it, feel however you want to feel about it," Haliburton said of getting to this point. "But, at the end of the day, we're not done. Our goal wasn't just to get to the Eastern Conference finals and be done. Our goal is to win a championship."
Agencies via Xinhua
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