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Alex Caruso Had to Show Young Thunder Teammates How to Pop Champagne Bottles

Oklahoma City Thunder players celebrate after winning the 2025 NBA Finals. | Via ESP

The Oklahoma City Thunder showed just how young they are after winning their first NBA title Sunday night.

Oklahoma City won Game 7 of the 2025 NBA Finals, topping the Indiana Pacers 103–91 to secure a championship. The Thunder are one of the youngest teams to ever take home a title, and when celebrating afterward that become readily apparent.

As the Thunder's players got ready to celebrate in the locker room with the traditional spraying of champagne, they ran into a problem. It turns out, almost none of them know how to pop a bottle. They all struggled for a few minutes before veteran teammate Alex Caruso showed them how.

Luckily, this hilarious scene was captured in the video below.

That is a genuinely hilarious scene.

Caruso is the team's oldest player at 31 years old, and he won a title with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2020, so he knows how to handle a champagne bottle. Luckily he was able to help his teammates out.


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This article was originally published on www.si.com as Alex Caruso Had to Show Young Thunder Teammates How to Pop Champagne Bottles.

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