Tyrese Haliburton and the Indiana Pacers have achieved some crazy return of the 2025 playoffs, but their last rally to win the game 1 of the NBA finals could have the most wild.
The probabilities were against the Pacers winning this game from the beginning, but they seemed especially when the Oklahoma City Thunder pushed its advantage to 17 in the fourth quarter. But then the Pacers did what they have done all the postseason in a career of magnetic ball shots.
Indiana surpassed thunder the rest of the road, with the winner of the inclined and unlikely game of Haliburton turning the network with only 0.3 seconds, thus says Indiana. First leader of the whole game:
According to Josh Dubow from Associated Press, that means that Indiana tried something that 121 teams had tried before them in the NBA finals … and was the first team to complete such a rally:
The pacemakers followed by 9 with 2:52 to play. At the play play (from the beginning of the 1997 playoffs), the teams were 0-121 in the NBA finals when more than 7 points followed in the finals 3:00 or fourth quarter or OT before tonight.
– Josh Dubow (@joshdubowap) June 6, 2025
Not only does that mean that the Pacers are now a mad 5-3 in this postseason when they fall for 15 or more points, but according to the NBA statistics, the expert in the NBA statistics, Keerthika Uthayakumar, also means that now they are only the fourth team in the last almost three decades to win a playoff game despite having the advantage for less than 30 seconds of game of play ::
Since 1998, only four teams have won a playoff game despite leading for 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 pacemaker in G1 of the NBA finals – 0.3 seconds– Keerthika uthayakumar (@kerthikau) June 6, 2025
The victory also continued to solidify the reputation of crispy time almost to the Haliburton Cup, and we may never have a playoff race where a player was this clutch, with this level of regularity:
Tyrese Haliburton is 6 of 7 (85.7%) when bar to shoot to tie or take the lead in the last 90 seconds of the 4th or ot of these playoffs.
That is the majority of those shots in a single postseason since 1997.
– Keerthika uthayakumar (@kerthikau) June 6, 2025
For the context, that means Tyrese Haliburton, in the highest possible games with the defenses more than ever, shooting a higher percentage than any player who made more than two total shots From the field Duration all regular NBA season.
It remains to be seen if the Pacers can achieve the most impressive discomfort of all, win the NBA finals, but it is sure to say, never, they will never be counted again the sounds of the final bell.
