The Oklahoma City Thunder and Minnesota Timberwolves are meeting for the Western Conference championship. The Indiana Pacers and New York Knicks square-off for the Eastern Conference crown. The 2025 NBA Finals are going to give us a surprise matchup no matter how this round plays out, and the basketball should continue to be as great as ever.

James won two Finals MVPs with the Heat, one with the Cavaliers and one with the Lakers. On his run to winning his first Finals MVP, he averaged 30.3 points, 9.7 rebounds, 5.6 assists and 1.9 steals over 23 playoff games for the Heat.

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But there's also history from a year ago, when the Pacers beat the Knicks in the second round in seven games. Will history repeat itself? New York travels to Indianapolis for Game 1 of the series on Wednesday,

The Knicks will battle the Pacers on TNT and MAX while the Thunder vs. Timberwolves will air on ABC or ESPN and fubo.

On Monday's episode of NBA Today, former Boston Celtics center and current ESPN NBA analyst Kendrick Perkins was asked by Malika Andrews who the best player left in the postseason is and the one-time NBA champion didn't mince words.

Here are 6 stars and 6 X-factors from the Timberwolves, Thunder, Pacers and Knicks poised to boost their teams in the Conference Finals.

There will be a new NBA champion. A lot of them, actually, considering almost all of the players left in these playoffs have not even played in the NBA Finals.

The NBA announced on Monday the 20 officials and four alternate referees who will work the Eastern and Western Conference Finals during the 2025-26 playoffs.

Our playoff MVP update features a Game 7 savior, two Wolves and a superstar that hasn't played in three weeks.

Brunson is in an "N.Y. State of Mind" leading the Knicks to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time since 2000.