The NBA finals tip off Thursday night from Paycom Center in Oklahoma City, where the hometown Thunder host the Indiana Pacers. It's a winner-take-all, best-of-seven series and both teams are chasing their first-ever NBA championship.

Alex Caruso is the only Oklahoma City Thunder player with NBA Finals experience. And even he has no idea what this year’s series will feel like.

Perhaps the single most impactful coaching decision of the entire NBA playoffs so far came in Game 7 of the Western Conference Semifinals between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Denver Nuggets. After three-time MVP Nikola Jokic obliterated Oklahoma City for much of the series' first six games,