Indiana Pacers defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder and forced a Game 7 in the NBA Finals, the first since the 2016 season.

Game 7 will be played this Sunday at 7:00 pm local time at the Paycom Center in Oklahoma City, where the Thunder will look to take advantage of their strength at home to win their first championship in Oklahoma, while Indiana will go for the first NBA title in franchise history.

LeBron James, the protagonist of the last Game 7 in the NBA Finals

Not since the legendary 2016 Finals, when LeBron James' Cleveland Cavaliers came back from 3-1 down to beat Stephen Curry's Golden State Warriors, has the league enjoyed such an intense finish.

On that occasion, the Cavs made history as the first team to reverse that deficit in a Finals.

This will be the twentieth Game 7 in the NBA Finals. In the previous 19 seasons, home teams have won 15 times, a statistic that clearly favors Oklahoma City, which also has an impressive 35-6 record at home in the regular season and 10-2 in these playoffs.

Although the statistic also favors teams that win Game 6. Over the last 40 years, only one team that won Game 6 has finished without an NBA title.

The only negative precedent was for the 2005 Detroit Pistons who fell to Tim Duncan's San Antonio Spurs. A history that is positive for the Indiana team.

Tyrese Haliburton's Pacers have proven to be specialists in impossible feats throughout the postseason.

The Indianapolis team has built its path with epic comebacks and now has the opportunity to lift its first Larry O'Brien trophy in the NBA, although it has already won three ABA titles.

On the other side, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's Thunder, although they had a poor performance in the sixth game, already showed they have mettle in these instances.

In the Western Conference semifinals, They also reached Game 7 against Nikola Jokic's Denver Nuggets and crushed them 125-93.