The Oklahoma City Thunder routed the Minnesota Timberwolves in Game 5 of the Western Conference finals on Wednesday night to punch their ticket to the NBA Finals for the first time since 2012. The Thunder, who earned the No. 1 seed in the West and boast the best regular-season record for 2024-25, have never won a title in OKC, though the franchise does have one championship from its time as the Seattle SuperSonics.
Consequently, Thunder players, including this year's MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, were sufficiently pumped up after the win, at which point they decided to playfully drape head coach Mark Daigneault in sweat towels and Finals merch as he spoke on-court postgame.
