It's a do-or-die Game 7 for the Denver Nuggets and Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday afternoon with a spot in the 2025 Western Conference finals on the line. The top-seeded Thunder are facing elimination for the first time in these playoffs after dropping Game 6 in Denver on Thursday night.

The second round of the 2025 NBA playoffs wrapped up on Sunday, featuring a Game 7 clash between the Denver Nuggets and Oklahoma City Thunder.

The Nuggets used a late third-quarter flurry of baskets to mount a double-digit comeback and never looked back in the fourth.

When the Boston Celtics were eliminated by the New York Knicks on Friday, 2025 became the sixth straight NBA postseason in which the defending champ has failed to advance past the second round. It was the latest bullet point in the current study that is NBA parity,

For the first time in nearly a decade, the OKC Thunder is headed to the Western Conference finals. To get there, it took surviving the Denver Nuggets.

The Denver Nuggets clash with the Oklahoma City Thunder in a winner-take-all Game 7 of the Western Conference semifinals today. Find out how to watch for free.

Predictions, picks and odds as the OKC Thunder hosts the Denver Nuggets on Sunday in Game 7 of a second-round playoff series. Plus injury updates and news.

Denver Nuggets star Aaron Gordon cited Golden State Warriors icon Steph Curry’s Grade 1 hamstring strain in pleading for the NBA to offer players more rest during the playoffs.