Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Vincent Goodwill is joined by Boston Globe reporter Gary Washburn to preview Sunday’s decisive game in the NBA Finals. Hear the full conversation on “Good Word with Goodwill” and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

Game 6.

I literally, and this is no shade to the Indiana Pacers, and I guess I should stop doing this.

I had my flight booked home.

I’m like after game 4, I was like, oh, the series is over.

They have blown this series.

You blew game 4 at home.

You lose game 5 on the road.

J Dub scores 40.

You know what’s going to happen in game 6.

Tyrese Halliburton’s hurt.

They’re being real coy about what he’s looking like.

He didn’t look good in game 5.

They are wasting our time because Gary it looks like they could have long ago have won this series.

They blew game four, they didn’t score, I think, uh, they scored 11 point in the last 320, and then game 5, they just looked.

They, they, a game played from behind and then turned the ball over.

So I thought, I thought the series was gonna be over.

I thought, I thought Oklahoma was gonna just say, OK, we’re the better team.

But I just think this Indiana team is a team of destiny, man.

There’s something special and I just think all the pressure is on the Thunder, all the pressure, because they’ve been in Oklahoma for 17 years.

They’ve prepared 17 years for this moment.

You’re talking about the drafting the KD and Russ and Harden.

Making the finals in 12, like all the ups and downs this franchise has been through and all the sacrifice they’ve made to basically tank for a couple of seasons and be the the placeholder for a lot of bad contracts, the Kemba Walker, the Al Horford, the Chris Paul, and all that, and take all those picks.

This is it.

And if you blow it.

There is no guarantee you’re coming back next year.

So to me, this is a series that’s all the pressures on the Thunder.

The Pacers, if you lose game 7, it’s painful, it sucks, you’re always going to remember it, but it’s more of a, it’s more of a loss for the Thunder than I think it is for the Pacers, but The Pacers, I, I was trying, I’ve been trying to tell people about the Pacers.

They are a fun team to watch and they messed around for the first two months of the season, but this is a serious ass team.