Pacers stun Thunder in NBA finals Game 1 as Haliburton caps huge rally with winning jumper

Tim Reynolds · The Associated Press

· Posted: Jun 05, 2025 11:59 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

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.

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.

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 a clip retired 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.