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NBA Cup 2025 Showdown: Can Underdog Spurs Upset Lakers and Will Suns’ Firepower Outshine Thunder’s Grit?

Down by as many as 15, Phoenix charged back in the fourth quarter, getting hot from long distance — Royce O’Neale and Collin Gillespie combined for five of the Suns’ six fourth-quarter triples — and cutting OKC’s lead to a single point multiple times. Time and again, though, the hosts had the answer — typically in the form of letting Shai Gilgeous-Alexander size up his man and go to work.

Gilgeous-Alexander, who’s chosen to celebrate winning nearly everything there was to win last season — the exception, of course, being the NBA Cup! — by coming back even better, poured in 15 of his game-high 37 points in the final seven minutes, capped by a pair of free throws with 4.7 seconds left to finish off a 123-119 win. With the victory, Oklahoma City finished atop West Group A at 4-0 — and, by virtue of their +75 point differential across the four victories, with the No. 1 seed in the conference.

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