Tyrese Haliburton and the Indiana Pacers have withdrawn Some crazy comebacks During the play -offs from 2025, but their newest rally to win Game 1 of the NBA Finals was perhaps their wildest so far.
The chances were against the Pacers who won this match from the start, but they seemed especially long when the Oklahoma City Thunder pushed their lead to no less than 17 in the fourth quarter. But then the pacers did what they have done all the entire late season on a magnet-ball shotmaking run.
Indiana defeated the Thunder the rest of the road, with Haliburton’s leaning, unlikely game winner swinged through the net by just 0.3 seconds, causing Indiana to protect it from Indiana First lead of the entire game:
According to Josh Dubow of the Associated Press, this means that Indiana tried something that 121 teams had tried for them in the NBA final … and the first team were ever so rally completed:
Pacers followed 9 with 2:52 to play. In Play by Play Era (since Playoffs from 1997), teams were 0-121 in NBA Finals when they walked 7+ points with 7:00 of the 4th quarter of OT for tonight
– Josh Dubow (@joshdubowap) June 6, 2025
That does not only mean that the pacers are now An insane 5-3 this late season When they fall with 15 or more points, but according to NBA -Statistics Maven Keerthika Uthayakumar, this also means that they are now only the fourth team in the last almost three decades to win a play -off game despite the leadership for less than 30 seconds of playing time:
Since 1998, only four teams have won a play -off game, despite leading 30 seconds or less:
1999 Spurs in G2 of the West Finals – 10 seconds
2001 Mavs in G5 of the first round – 30 seconds
2002 Lakers in G4 of the West Finals – 13 seconds
2025 Pacers in G1 of the NBA Finals – 0.3 sec– Keerthika Uthayakumar (@Kerkthikau) June 6, 2025
The victory also continued to solidify the near-bulletproof crunch-time reputation of Haliburton, and it is possible that we have never seen a play-off run where a player was this link, with this level of regularity:
Tyrese Haliburton is 6-out-7 (85.7%) when taking a shot to bind or take the lead in the last 90 seconds of the 4th or OT these play-offs.
These are most such photos in one late season since 1997.
– Keerthika Uthayakumar (@Kerkthikau) June 6, 2025
For context, that means Tyrese Haliburton, in the highest possible games that are possible with defenses that have been assigned to him more than ever, shoot a higher percentage than every player who has taken More than two total shots held From the field During the entire regular NBA season.
It is still to consider whether the Pacers can get the most amazing upset of all – winning the NBA final – but it is safe to say that they can never be postponed until the last buzzer sounds.
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