It's a do-or-die Game 7 for the Denver Nuggets and Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday afternoon with a spot in the 2025 Western Conference finals on the line. The top-seeded Thunder are facing elimination for the first time in these playoffs after dropping Game 6 in Denver on Thursday night.

OKLAHOMA CITY — The only noises to be heard in “Loud City” early Sunday afternoon were nervous murmurs and clanging wayward jumpers, which is not at all what the Paycom Center crowd had in mind for the Oklahoma City Thunder’s biggest home game in nine years.