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ESPN-এর Game 6-এর পূর্বাভাস: Thunder 56.4%, Pacers 43.6%. একটি decimal point-এর ফাঁকেই hope-এর विनाश।

আমিগুলি कोनो पर्दे पर ताकিয়েছিলাম—অবাকহয়না, but it felt inevitable. Like fate written in code.

কিন্তু, kono ekta kotha कहा हयनা: statistics stories tell na; they reflect them. And the story behind this split isn’t just basketball — it’s class, visibility, and who gets to be counted as ‘believable’.

Why the Underdog Never Gets Credit

আমি Chicago-এর south side-এ children teach korar somoy jekono ekta thing jani: confidence equally hand nai.

Good hands thakle o college scout visit nai? His potential is invisible to most people — even when he scores 28 in a playoff game.

That’s exactly where the Pacers are now. Not broken — just unseen.

The Thunder have stars with name recognition, media presence, and analytics backing their rise. But for every highlight reel moment from Shai or Chet, there are ten more nights where an undrafted guard plays 30 minutes of elite defense… and nobody notices.

And that silence? It shapes predictions like this one.

The algorithm doesn’t see hustle; it sees wins per minute. It doesn’t hear grit; it hears salary cap figures.

So when ESPN says ‘Thunder win,’ they’re not just forecasting outcomes — they’re validating systems that already favor certain narratives over others.