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.

Denver Nuggets forward Aaron Gordon drew praise for battling through a Grade 2 hamstring sprain to play in Game 7 of the Western Conference semifinals against the Oklahoma City Thunder. Gordon was clearly laboring through his injury during Game 7, but still provided a boost to the Nuggets.

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

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.

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.

For the second consecutive season, the Denver Nuggets ' campaign concluded with a Game 7 loss in the second round of the NBA Playoffs. This outcome follows their victory in the 2022-23 season, when they won the NBA championship.

Former Denver Nuggets NBA champion head coach Michael Malone will join ESPN's "NBA Countdown" for its coverage of the 2025 Western Conference Finals.