Vlade Divac is recovering after a motorcycle fall. (Photo by Rich Fury/Getty Images)
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Former Sacramento Kings general manager Vlade Divac underwent emergency surgery after fracturing his hip in a motorcycle fall, according to the Associated Press.
The incident took place Thursday in Risan, Montenegro. Divac, 57, had an artificial hip implanted following the accident. Doctors said Divac was in stable condition after the incident, per the AP.
“During the day, a surgical procedure was performed,” said Ljubica Mitrovic, a spokeswoman of the hospital in the town of Risan. “He is in a stable general and physical condition and is under a careful supervision of the medical staff.”
After being selected by the Los Angeles Lakers in the first round of the 1989 NBA Draft, Divac went on to play 16 years in the league. He averaged 11.8 points and 8.2 rebounds over his career, also seeing time with the Charlotte Hornets and Sacramento Kings. He was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2019.
In addition to his NBA career, Divac — who is Serbian — experienced success with the Yugoslavian national team. He helped lead the team to two silver medals at the Summer Olympics. He’s considered one of the best International Basketball Federation (FIBA) players of all time.
Divac spent roughly a decade away from the NBA before joining the Kings as an advisor. He eventually moved into the team’s general manager role. Divac served in that position for six seasons. The Kings struggled under Divac, who posted a .402 winning percentage as the team’s general manager. They failed to make the playoffs in each of Divac’s six seasons as GM.
Following the 2020 season, Divac stepped down as the team’s general manager.
One of the best period-tracking apps out there, Clue, recently announced a feature that should be groundbreaking for people who don’t menstruate but still experience cyclical health changes. The app claims to be the only health app that tracks your cycle even when you don’t bleed. This would mean people who don’t have periods due to surgery, hormonal medications, gender transition, or life stages like post-menopause can track their cycles, too.
The premise is solid and much-needed. Even when you don’t experience bleeding, your cyclical changes in mood, energy, and physical symptoms don’t just disappear. These patterns matter for understanding your body, managing health conditions, and making informed decisions about your well-being. Clue deserves credit for recognizing this gap in reproductive health tracking.
But here’s where the excitement deflates, and where there’s a fundamental flaw throughout the period tracking industry: These apps are still glorified diaries. If you can start a new “cycle” whenever you feel like it, then your tracking is based on vibes, essentially. Here’s the issue with users manually identifying their own patterns, even when the technology to detect cycles automatically already exists.
How period tracking currently works (and how it doesn’t)
Traditional period tracking apps operate on a simple premise: you tell the app when your period starts, and it uses that data to predict future cycles and fertile windows. This works reasonably well for people with regular menstrual bleeding, but it completely excludes anyone who doesn’t bleed—a massive population including people using hormonal birth control, those who’ve had hysterectomies, people on gender-affirming hormone therapy, and post-menopausal individuals.
Clue’s new feature attempts to solve this by letting users manually start a new “cycle” whenever they want, based on how they’re feeling. But this isn’t fundamentally different from existing period apps—it’s just replacing “I’m bleeding” with “I think I’m starting a new cycle.” Users are still required to self-diagnose their cyclical patterns rather than having technology detect them.
The problem is that if you don’t have regular periods, you often don’t know when your cycles begin or end. That’s precisely why you’d want tracking in the first place.
The technology is out there
What makes this particularly frustrating is that the technology to detect cyclical patterns without manual input not only exists—it’s already built into the devices millions of people wear daily.
Beth Skwarecki, who has been testing wearables that offer women’s health features, captures this perfectly: “I don’t get regular periods but I don’t know whether I have a cycle—some people on my form of contraception do and some don’t. So I get excited every time I hear that a device can use body temperature to predict ovulation, or that a device looks for patterns in your body’s metrics. But I haven’t found a single one that even attempts to do cycle tracking without you manually flagging days that you are bleeding.”
The science is straightforward: Body temperature typically rises about half a degree during the second half of your cycle compared to the first half. The day your temperature rises coincides with ovulation, and the day it drops aligns with when you’d typically have a period.
Oura, Whoop, most Garmin watches, Apple Watch, and virtually every premium smartwatch already monitor body temperature for these exact variations. And many of these wearables will identify the dates they think you are ovulating—but only if, and after, you manually flag the dates you noticed bleeding. As Beth points out, this seems like an awfully limited use of this data given the effort these platforms put into analyzing and detecting patterns in all the other data they collect. Whoop will tell you whether you sleep better on nights you’re better hydrated. Oura will tell you when your body temperature and other metrics seem to suggest you’re getting sick. Yet somehow, none of them apply this data to detect cyclical patterns independently.
“With all of the effort Oura (and Whoop, and other wearables) put into detecting patterns in your personal biometrics,” Beth explains, “it seems like a huge omission that they don’t point their algorithms at the question of ‘Does this user have a cyclical monthly pattern in their temperature data?‘”
Besides, temperature is just the beginning. Modern wearables track heart rate variability, sleep patterns, activity levels, and stress indicators—all metricsthatcanfluctuatecyclically in people with hormonal cycles, regardless of whether they menstruate.
Who this really impacts
As someone squarely in Clue’s target demographic for this feature, I don’t want to guess when my cycle starts—I want the app to tell me based on the symptoms I’m logging. If I knew when my cycles began and ended, I wouldn’t need specialized tracking in the first place. The whole value proposition of cycle tracking apps is pattern recognition that humans might miss.
Think about it: if you can arbitrarily declare a new cycle based on how you’re feeling, what’s stopping you from just logging “bleeding” in a regular period app and getting the same functionality? What’s desperately needed—and what continues to elude every major health app—is intelligent pattern detection. An app that can analyze your logged symptoms (mood swings, energy dips, headaches, sleep changes, whatever your body does) and say, “Hey, based on your data from the past few months, it looks like you might be starting a new cycle around now.”
People who don’t menstruate but still experience hormonal cycles often struggle with symptoms that doctors dismiss or don’t fully understand. Having data-backed evidence of cyclical patterns could validate their experiences and inform better healthcare decisions.
I do think Clue is halfway there by encouraging users to log mood, energy, and health experiences to “connect the dots” and “observe patterns.” The ability to track health patterns “on your terms” without the pressure of menstrual bleeding is valuable. But it’s still asking users to do the connecting and observing themselves. If my Oura or Whoop or Apple Watch is tracking all these metrics anyways, why isn’t it finding patterns related to my cycle?
And frankly, if I want to analyze my own symptom patterns, I’ll just use a regular note-taking app and save myself the privacy concerns.
Oklahoma City opened up as an 8.5-point favorite at BetMGM ahead of Sunday’s deciding NBA Finals game. The Indiana Pacers emphatically forced Game 7 on Thursday night with a 108-91 win that wasn’t as close as the final score indicated. Indiana went on a monster run to take a 22-point lead at halftime and extended the lead to 30 before the start of the fourth quarter.
The Pacers did all that after starting 0 of 8 from the field. The Thunder had a quick 10-2 lead and trailed 34-33 during the second quarter. The score at halftime was 64-42.
Five Pacers scored in double figures as Obi Toppin had 20 points off the bench and was 4 of 7 from behind the 3-point line.
This is Indiana’s first seven-game series of the playoffs and the second for the Thunder. Oklahoma City went to seven games in the second round with Denver and the Finals have looked a lot like that Denver series.
The Nuggets swiped Game 1 in OKC after the Thunder were in control for much of the game before Oklahoma City had a big bounce back in Game 2. Denver then won Game 3 before the Thunder won Game 4 and Game 5 and lost convincingly on the road in Game 6.
Sound familiar? The Pacers got their first lead of the game in Game 1 on Tyrese Haliburton’s game-winning shot with 0.3 seconds left. The Thunder won Game 2 before losing Game 3. Then the Thunder seized control late in Game 4 to tie the series and won Game 5 ahead of last night’s big Pacers win.
The Thunder have been favored in all seven games so far this series after they were big favorites to win in five games. OKC has covered the spread in all three of its wins and its two victories at home have both been by double-digits.
If you think Indiana is going to score the series win, avoiding the spread and going straight to the moneyline is the play. The Pacers are +290 to win Game 7 while the Thunder are -375.
It feels like a window into the Pacers’ collective psyche, that all they had to do was take care of business Thursday night, and in front of them would be the opportunity of a lifetime.
“One game,” Carlisle said. “I mean, this is what it’s all about. I mean, this is … this is what you dream about growing up — this kind of opportunity.”
The notion is simplified, but if you look at the Pacers as a team that has grown in confidence since the NBA Finals began, a team that didn’t feel it threw away its best chance at an upset two games ago with the Game 4 collapse, this makes sense.
There was no stopping the Indiana Pacers on Thursday night. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
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They aren’t supposed to be here, but they don’t know that. And they knew something we didn’t, something our eyes wouldn’t allow us to.
If they had a reasonably healthy Tyrese Haliburton — who went through round-the-clock treatment and consultation over the past 72 hours — they could do more than make this elimination game respectable.
Haliburton didn’t come out of the tunnel like Willis Reed. He wasn’t limping around like Isiah Thomas on a bad ankle. It was hard to tell just how hurt Haliburton was, though it surely seemed like he was ailing walking out of Game 5 in Oklahoma City.
He had what he called an “honest conversation” with Carlisle, given how ineffective he was in Game 5, when the Pacers clawed back from a big deficit only to let it slip away with five disastrous minutes, to make sure he wasn’t dragging his teammates down.
But not going out there for Game 6 was not an option.
“I just look at it as I want to be out there to compete with my brothers,” Haliburton said. “These are guys that I’m willing to go to war with, and we’ve had such a special year, and we have a special bond as a group, and you know, I think I’d beat myself up if I didn’t give it a chance.”
But the chance turned to confidence, perhaps buoyed by the healing powers provided by Gainbridge Fieldhouse, and the Pacers rolled to a dominant 108-91 win to send the series back to Oklahoma City. Haliburton’s 14 points and five assists don’t jump off the page, but the first time he hit a shot, he almost looked to the heavens to say, “Finally …” after going bucket-less in Game 5.
“We’ve got one game. One game,” Haliburton said. “It’s nothing that’s happened before matters, and nothing that’s going to happen after matters. It’s all about that one game. Just trying to approach it the right way for the next couple days.”
Now, they believe.
Perhaps the signal was Carlisle not messing around with Haliburton’s status, coming right out in pregame and saying Haliburton was ready to go and that his injured calf could handle the rigors of the biggest game in franchise history.
“What’s the point? I mean, this time of year, playing games isn’t going to get you anywhere,” Carlisle said 90 minutes before game time. “We got a job to do tonight. We’ve got to get ready to battle a team that has been the best team in the league all year long. It’s a tough game. It’s an elimination game. There’s a lot going on.”
The Indiana Pacers cannot be trifled with. They cannot be broken. If they buckled, they quickly came back to their feet before any knockout punch could be delivered.
The Pacers put themselves into the Thunder’s luggage, stalling a victory celebration that many expected before the night began. The Pacers led by as many as 30 at the end of the third quarter, and the Thunder played their reserves for the final 12 minutes, thus making the score look more respectable than it was.
The Thunder are kings in waiting and perhaps will still emerge victorious in this series to validate their favored status. But there is no intimidation factor across the way. They don’t win the game before walking into the building — at least not yet.
The Pacers are almost defiant about looking at the Thunder as some unbeatable juggernaut, claiming with certainty their confidence hasn’t grown from the start — but through six games, one cannot deny how comfortable the Pacers have gotten.
If the Thunder thought they graduated by beating Nikola Jokić and the beaten-up Denver Nuggets, they’ve found out they’re a few credits short of completion and headed to summer school.
“I think that’s just always been us. I don’t think that changed,” Pacers forward Pascal Siakam said. “We continue to be us, no matter what, and I think that’s what makes us who we are.”
They morphed into the best of what Oklahoma City has done in this series, providing their own 40 minutes of hell and targeting the league’s Most Valuable Player all night. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was in his own personal purgatory, with eight of the Thunder’s 21 turnovers that got the Pacers into the open floor when the set offense was taking its time. Every time he turned his back, there was a Pacer, scrapping, reaching, getting in his space to make him think and throw off whatever rhythm the Thunder believed they’d gained.
The Pacers have stymied Gilgeous-Alexander as well as anyone has this postseason, bringing his assist-to-turnover ratio to 27-to-23 in the Finals. For reference, he’s a three-to-one performer the past two seasons, but Andrew Nembhard isn’t giving him much space and is tireless in making him work.
One exhausts himself when he knows a championship is close, when it feels likely, when it no longer feels like a dream that is unattainable. Jalen Williams, the Thunder’s co-star who’s blooming every game, went from putting up 40 in Game 5 to being a ghastly minus-40 in 26 minutes in Game 6.
In the middle two quarters, the Pacers outscored the Thunder by a whopping 62-35 margin, and it wasn’t long before the Thunder packed up their things, living to fight a Game 7 on their home floor.
If the Thunder think that will bring them solace, they’re in for another rude awakening.
“It’s so, so exciting. As a basketball fan, there’s nothing like a Game 7,” Haliburton said. “There’s nothing like a Game 7 in the NBA Finals. Dreamed of being in this situation my whole life. What happened in the past doesn’t matter. What happened today doesn’t matter. It’s all about one game and approaching that the right way.”
The Thunder have created a storm they cannot contain, with a seventh game that feels like an opportunity for all kinds of history.
INDIANAPOLIS — As doors opened to the media inside the Oklahoma City Thunder’s locker room, on one end, veterans Alex Caruso and Isaiah Hartenstein sat dejected. On the other, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Jalen Williams carried on a jovial, non-basketball-related conversation, as if the loss had never happened.
It did happen. In Game 6 of the 2025 NBA Finals on Thursday — the Thunder’s first close-out chance of the series — they submitted arguably their worst performance of the season, losing 108-91 to the Indiana Pacers.
Was this the immaturity of youth? After all, Oklahoma City — led by the 26-year-old Gilgeous-Alexander and 24-year-old Williams — is the youngest finalist since 1977. Or was it the right mindset to let go of this game almost as soon as it happened? Impossible to know. Only the Thunder could explain their mental approach.
And on that, they could not agree.
Thunder players looked on from the bench during the fourth quarter as the Pacers rolled in Game 6 of the NBA Finals. (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)
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“I can’t speak for my whole team,” said Williams, who finished a game-worst minus-40. “The human element didn’t creep in for me until we got blown out. I didn’t start thinking about Game 7 until we walked off the floor — really, like, when the game was really out of reach. I think we had the right mindset coming into it.”
Gilgeous-Alexander, on the other hand, felt comfortable speaking on behalf of the Thunder.
“Definitely in the back of our minds, for sure,” said Gilgeous-Alexander, who committed a season-high eight turnovers, of the the weight of the chance to clinch a title. “We didn’t play like it at all. That’s why the night went the way it did. We got exactly what we deserved, what we earned. We have to own that.”
About the only thing they could agree on was another thing Gilgeous-Alexander said: “We sucked.”
That they did. Oklahoma City failed to eclipse 100 points in a game just three times during the regular season — and never scored fewer than 98. In the playoffs, the Thunder had been held below 100 points only once, in a 92-87 victory in Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinals against the Denver Nuggets.
In other words, it is incredibly difficult to throw the Thunder off their game.
But that is precisely what the Pacers did. The Thunder scored 89 points per 100 meaningful possessions, according to Cleaning the Glass. Their previous low this season was 94.8 (in that aforementioned Denver game). This was quite literally their worst offensive effort of the year. And the other end was no better.
“Our defense wasn’t very good,” Williams conceded.
“I don’t feel like we competed at the level we usually do,” Oklahoma City’s Lu Dort added.
The question, then, is why? Why did OKC, when it needed its best effort, put forth its worst?
“They outplayed us for most of the 48 minutes,” Thunder head coach Mark Daigneault said. “That’s the story of the game. They went out there and attacked the game. From our standpoint, it was uncharacteristic. It was disappointing. It was collective. It wasn’t one guy. Just we were not where we needed to be on either end of the floor for much of the game. We have to be a lot better before Game 7.”
The Thunder are one of only seven teams ever to win 68 games in a regular season, and they owned the second-best net rating (+12.8) in NBA history, trailing only Michael Jordan’s 72-win 1995-96 Chicago Bulls.
The Pacers, meanwhile, are a fourth seed. They should just be happy to be here. TJ McConnell is a major factor in this series. Tony Bradley is playing meaningful minutes for them. Tyrese Haliburton, Indiana’s most valuable player, is playing through a right calf strain that had him questionable to even participate.
“I don’t think it’s a one-sentence answer,” said OKC big man Chet Holmgren, who scored four points on nine shots. “But at the end of the day, there really is no explanation, no excuse. We have to be better.”
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Oklahoma City Thunder will play the Indiana Pacers at this year’s NBA finals, and you can tune into every game on Hulu + Live TV. (William Purnell/Getty Images)
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The Oklahoma City Thunder are in their first NBA Finals since 2012. A win this year would give the Thunder their first-ever franchise trophy under their current name (they do have a championship title when they were the Seattle Supersonics), but MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and his crew face serious competition against the Indiana Pacers. Tyrese Haliburton and the Pacers have proven they’ve got the determination; They’re chasing their first-ever championship title, too.
Every game of the series will air live on ABC, which is available as part of a subscription to Hulu + Live TV. Hulu + Live TV is $82.99 per month without ads, but if you want to test it out, you can get a free 3-day trial before committing.
Here’s a full rundown of the game schedule and how to get complete access to every game with a Hulu + Live TV subscription.
How to watch the Indiana Pacers vs. Oklahoma City Thunder Game 6:
Date: June 19
Time: 8:30 p.m. ET
TV channel: ABC
Streaming: Hulu + Live TV
Where to watch the Pacers vs. Thunder:
You can tune in to every game of the NBA Finals between the Indiana Pacers and the OKC Thunder on ABC, which is available with a subscription to Hulu + Live TV.
NBA Finals channel:
All games in the NBA Finals series between the Pacers and Thunder will air on ABC.
How to watch the NBA Finals without cable:
Who is playing in the NBA Finals?
This year, the Oklahoma City Thunder and Indiana Pacers will play each other in the NBA Finals.
NBA Finals TV schedule:
All times Eastern, winners in bold.
June 5 — Game 1, Indiana at Oklahoma City, 8:30 p.m (ABC)
June 8 — Game 2, Indiana at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m. (ABC)
June 11 — Game 3, Oklahoma City at Indiana, 8:30 p.m. (ABC)
June 13 — Game 4, Oklahoma City at Indiana, 8:30 p.m. (ABC)
June 16 — Game 5, Indiana at Oklahoma City, 8:30 p.m (ABC)
June 19 — Game 6, Oklahoma City at Indiana 8:30 p.m. (ABC)
June 22 — Game 7, Indiana at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.* (ABC)
*if necessary
What games can you watch with Hulu + Live TV?
With a subscription to Hulu + Live TV, you can watch every game of the NBA finals – ABC is one of over 95 channels included with a regular subscription.
What other channels can you watch on Hulu + Live TV?
Live network television is just one perk of Hulu + Live TV. You can also access 95+ live channels like Fox, NBC, Bravo, FX, PBS, Nickelodeon, Lifetime and USA, too. Browse the options using the intuitive guide and even record live TV to unlimited DVR storage to watch any shows or sports events or your own time. Stream at home or on the go using the mobile app.
And if you change your mind, you can cancel any time before your next billing cycle.
The Oklahoma City Thunder are facing the Indiana Pacers in the 2025 NBA Finals. The odds heavily favored the Thunder over the Pacers headed into this series, which is no surprise considering the Thunder were 68-14 in the regular season and the No. 1 overall seed in the Western Conference. However, the fourth-seeded Indiana Pacers managed to hold their own, and were tied in the series up until Monday night, when OKC defeated Indiana 120-109. The Thunder now lead the series 3-2.
Game 6 tips off in Indiana this Thursday, June 19, at 8:30 p.m. on ABC. Here’s everything you need to know about how to watch the Pacers vs. Thunder NBA Finals.
How to watch the Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Indiana Pacers Game 6:
Date: Thursday, June 19
Time: 8:30 p.m. ET
TV channel: ABC
Streaming: DirecTV, Fubo, Hulu + Live TV and more
NBA Finals channel:
All games in the NBA Finals will air on ABC — sweet and simple!
How to watch the NBA Finals without cable:
Who is playing in the NBA Finals?
The Oklahoma City Thunder will face the Indiana Pacers in the 2025 NBA Finals.
2025 NBA Finals TV schedule:
All times Eastern.
Thursday, June 19
Game 6 – Oklahoma City at Indiana: 8:30 p.m. (ABC)
Sunday, June 22
Game 7 – Indiana at Oklahoma City, if necessary: 8 p.m. (ABC)
