Social Media Reacts to OKC Thunder Beating Nuggets, Advancing to Western Conference Finals

On Sunday afternoon, the Oklahoma City Thunder played their biggest game in a decade: a Game 7 bout with the Denver Nuggets.

Denver threw the first punch, but the Thunder would throw the last, coasting to an essential blowout win on their home turf to advance to the Western Conference Finals and a meeting with the Minnesota Timberwolves.

The first half was a back-and-forth affair, with Oklahoma City seeing an offensive burst from Jalen Williams to head into the break up 14. The second half was even more Thunder-centric, with players like Cason Wallace, Alex Caruso and more playing stingy defense that turned to offense.

Here's how X, formerly known as Twitter, reacted to Game 7:

Getting us started for Game 7 ⚡️ pic.twitter.com/rdTq2NAecr
— OKC THUNDER (@okcthunder) May 18, 2025

Starting 🖐#MileHighPlayoffs pic.twitter.com/za1ThM1w45
— Denver Nuggets (@nuggets) May 18, 2025

MR NUGGET WALKING OUT FOR WARMUPS pic.twitter.com/aWmbaAA6MQ
— DNVR Nuggets (@DNVR_Nuggets) May 18, 2025

Christian Braun: not afraid of Game 7.
— Ryan Blackburn (@NBABlackburn) May 18, 2025

This is horrific. OKC not ready for the moment so far.
— Tayler Peterson (@Tayler_P15) May 18, 2025

How is Aaron Gordon doing this right now

This is incredible
— Matt (@sixringsofsteeI) May 18, 2025

What an impressive effort from the Nuggets to start this game
— Adam Mares (@Adam_Mares) May 18, 2025

The Thunder’s offense continues to struggle. This has been a very poor start to the game — good looks for the most part, but OKC can’t make shots.
— Nick Crain (@CrainNBA) May 18, 2025

Long game, but ideal start for Denver and ... not ideal for OKC, who looks a little anxious.
— Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) May 18, 2025

Miraculously, Thunder cut the lead down to just five heading into the second quarter.

Mark was hunting for some bench juice and found it in Aaron Wiggins, who's a +6 with two points, two assists, two rebounds, one steal and block apiece.
— Derek Parker (@DParkOK) May 18, 2025

Cason Wallace one of the few players with confidence in that first quarter

Mark better let him play 20-25 minutes today pic.twitter.com/SfJxwHXWie
— Tyranny (@MattTyranny) May 18, 2025

Caruso is an insane person. What an unbelievable job fronting/harassing Jokic.

There was maybe a bit more hesitation from some of OKC's guys than you'd like vs. the zone, but they got a lot of good shots in that quarter. Process was mostly good, just gotta shoot/finish better.
— Carson Breber (@Carsobi) May 18, 2025

Jokic +5 in 12 minutes
Denver -8 in 90 seconds without him
— Kirk Goldsberry (@kirkgoldsberry) May 18, 2025

OKC is doing a MUCH better job of being active on the glass and winning the hustle plays. Cleaning that up was always key.
— Rylan Stiles (@Rylan_Stiles) May 18, 2025

The Nuggets cannot leave Aaron Gordon to bring the ball up against Dort under any circumstance.
— Bennett Durando (@BennettDurando) May 18, 2025

Jokic’s flopping is simply out of control.
— Royce Young (@royceyoung) May 18, 2025

Thunder going really small here with Caruso playing center
— The Daniel Bell© (@BasketballGuruD) May 18, 2025

Jokic is the ultimate flopper. Can't touch him
— Andrew Schlecht (@AndrewKSchlecht) May 18, 2025

The physicality in this game is crazy. What a battle.
— Adam Mares (@Adam_Mares) May 18, 2025

Free throws attempted so far in Games 6 and 7 combined

Nuggets 46
Thunder 19
— Brandon Rahbar (@BrandonRahbar) May 18, 2025

17 first-half points for Jalen Williams,

Quite the answer from him.
— Derek Parker (@DParkOK) May 18, 2025

Hot take but not..

OKC fans are louder than Knick fans.
Happy Sunday!
— Trae Young (@TheTraeYoung) May 18, 2025

OKC made 19 shots at the rim in the first half, tied for their second-most in any GAME this playoffs.
— Keerthika Uthayakumar (@keerthikau) May 18, 2025

OKC dunk count is now up to 10 https://t.co/62PjDb1U5r
— Paris Lawson (@ParisNLawson) May 18, 2025

The Nuggets are upset about what took place before that Jokic hit on SGA.

"He fouled me four times," Gordon tells official Josh Tiven. "Get him the f*** off me."
— Sam Amick (@sam_amick) May 18, 2025

Thunder have a 20-point lead early in the second half following a Jalen Williams jumper.
— Derek Parker (@DParkOK) May 18, 2025

Shai step back 3 forces an Adelman timeout. Thunder ahead 69-46. He’s got 19-3-3. Jalen Williams has 19 on 13 shots. Seems this is the version of him y’all pleaded for.

OKC up big while just 6/22 from deep. Lot of interior presence.
— Joel Lorenzi (@JoelXLorenzi) May 18, 2025

The Thunder are outscoring the Nuggets 53-20 since the 1:03 mark in the 1st quarter.
— Esfandiar Baraheni (@JustEsBaraheni) May 18, 2025

You'd enjoy the games a lot more if you allowed yourself to pay attention to things other than the refs. Must be exhausting and miserable to watch games that way.
— Yaya Dubin (@JADubin5) May 18, 2025

Joker finally found his Batman. pic.twitter.com/NY5mY5Tc2q
— StatMuse (@statmuse) May 18, 2025

Well ok Cason Wallace
— The Daniel Bell© (@BasketballGuruD) May 18, 2025

Cason Wallace just posterized Nikola Jokic

My oh my
— Josh Callaway (@JoshMCallaway) May 18, 2025

CASON WALLACE JUST PUNCHED IT ON JOKIC 🤯🔨 pic.twitter.com/RJSrt0BOye
— BasketballNews.com (@basketbllnews) May 18, 2025

It’s not enough for Cason Wallace to start. He needs to be getting 30 minutes a night.
— Alex (@AlexHoops_) May 18, 2025

Caso said it's HAMMER TIME 🔨 pic.twitter.com/Ehm0ahAZKv
— OKC THUNDER (@okcthunder) May 18, 2025

Murray has been a rough watch today

Jokic has been a rough watch today

MPJ has been a rough watch today

Ok better? https://t.co/97oogQtaU5
— Dime Dropper (@DimeDropperPod) May 18, 2025

THE MVP MAKES IT A 30 POINT LEAD
— 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒆 🌩 (@Three_Cone) May 18, 2025

If Alex Caruso EVER plays for another team that is not the Thunder I will literally never watch the sport of basketball again.
— Cooper Jones (@CooperJNBA) May 18, 2025

Nuggets throw in the towel. It's Pickett/Strawther/Watson/Tyson/Nnaji out of the timeout. Thunder up 32 with 9:36 to go.
— Vinny Benedetto (@VBenedetto) May 18, 2025