The Young Talent of the NBA 2025 Playoffs

Written by Christopher Lawson

The NBA 2025 Playoffs are in action and very entertaining. There is 4 teams that remain in the NBA Final. In the Western Conference Finals. They are the Minnesota Timberwolves versus the Oklahoma City Thunder. In the Eastern Conference Finals the teams are the New York Knicks vs the Indiana Pacers. 

These Conference Finals are thought by many fans to be the best 4 teams in basketball. The 4 superstar players lighting up the Playoffs for their cities are Anthony Edwards (PG, Minnesota Timberwolves), Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (PG, Oklahoma City Thunder), Tyrese Haliburton (PG, Indiana Pacers), and finally Jalen Brunson (PG, New York Knicks). 

These past years NBA playoffs have been very popular amongst basketball fans across the world. The playoffs games each have had a average audience of 4.46 million viewers, which is a 14% increase from the previous years. 

Currently the in the Western Conference Final the Oklahoma City Thunder have one win up against the Minnesota Timberwolves making the series 1-0. In the Eastern Conference Finals the Indiana Pacers are currently up one win as well against the New York Knicks making the series 1-0. 

This year NBA Finals Champion will be something very very special for their city and fans because each of these teams have either not won a NBA Finals Championship yet or they haven’t in the past 30 years. This will be a great year for one of the final 4.

Many basketball analyst believe that the Oklahoma City Thunder will most likely be the NBA Finals Champions , mainly due to their star NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander who averaged a whopping 32.7ppg, 5.0 reb, 6.4 ast, and a 51.9% field goal shooting percentage.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scoring on Minnesota TimberWolves. (Western Conference Finals Game )

"The (Pacers) bench has got to be really good because OKC plays 10 to 11 players, and they all contribute," Buckner said. "Everybody may have a specialty, but they star in their roles." (May 31 2025, Indystar)

The NBA Playoffs this year has brought a lot of faith to fans about the upcoming years for the NBA with all this young talent currently fighting for the Championship.