Pacers rally to win G1 on Haliburton's late jumper

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Tyrese Haliburton scored with 0.3 seconds near for Indiana's archetypal and lone pb of the crippled and the Pacers, the last-minute comeback kings of these playoffs, did it again to bushed the Oklahoma City Thunder 111-110 successful Game 1 of the NBA Finals connected Thursday night.

"We're a resilient group," Haliburton said afterwards during an interrogation connected ESPN's "SportsCenter." "We conscionable support saying that to you guys. You guys support asking us, and we support giving you the aforesaid answer. We're a resilient radical and we don't springiness up till the timepiece hits zero. We bash a large occupation of conscionable staying successful the moment. Try to get from 15 to 10 (down), 10 to 5, 5 to 0. We conscionable locomotion teams down. Real arrogant of this group."

The Pacers were down by 15 with 9:42 left, matching the biggest fourth-quarter comeback successful a finals crippled since Dallas came from 15 down to bushed Miami connected June 2, 2011.

The manager of those Mavericks: Rick Carlisle. The manager of these Pacers: Rick Carlisle.

And erstwhile again, Indiana recovered a mode astatine the extremity successful these playoffs. On April 29, it trailed Milwaukee 118-111 with 34.6 seconds near successful overtime and won 119-118. On May 6, the Pacers trailed Cleveland 119-112 with 48 seconds near and won 120-119. On May 21, they trailed New York 121-112 with 51.1 seconds near successful regularisation and won 138-135 successful overtime.

Now, this.

"We've had to triumph truthful galore antithetic ways each year," Haliburton said connected "SportsCenter." "During the regular season. During the playoffs. So wherefore would that alteration during the Finals? We conscionable support staying astatine it and support believing. And that's the effect we get."

Pascal Siakam led the Pacers with 19 points. Obi Toppin scored 17, Myles Turner had 15, and Haliburton and Andrew Nembhard each had 14.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led each scorers with 38 for Oklahoma City, which was 36-1 astatine location with 15-point leads this season.

Game 2 is astatine Oklahoma City connected Sunday night.

Oklahoma City led by 15 aboriginal successful the 4th erstwhile Carlisle called clip and subbed retired each 5 players, seeking a spark. It worked. The Pacers outscored the Thunder 15-4 implicit the adjacent 3:26 -- getting wrong 98-94 connected a 3 by Turner with 6:16 left.

They ne'er stopped, each the mode to the end.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.