{"id":80540,"date":"2025-06-06T09:42:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T09:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/80540\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T09:42:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T09:42:17","slug":"tyrese-haliburton-is-nbas-mr-clutch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/80540\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyrese Haliburton is NBA&#8217;s Mr. Clutch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Knicks <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/01\/sports\/tyrese-haliburton-claps-back-at-ben-stiller-after-eliminating-knicks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">could\u2019ve warned Oklahoma City that was coming<\/a>. It wouldn\u2019t have helped. That\u2019s how clutch Tyrese Haliburton has been.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Haliburton wasn\u2019t great, but he was clutch \u2014 like he\u2019s been these entire playoffs. He hit a dagger with 0.3 seconds left to give the Pacers their first lead of the night at the only point of the night that ultimately mattered.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/05\/sports\/pacers-stun-thunder-in-nba-finals-game-1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pacers stormed back for a 111-110 upset in Game 1<\/a> of the NBA Finals, a tilt everybody expected them to lose. But they\u2019ve built this playoff run on exceeding expectations. And Haliburton is building a legacy as a clutch winner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m obviously confident in my ability and feel like if I can get to that spot, I feel very comfortable in there,\u201d said Haliburton, who had 14 points, 10 boards, six assists and another iconic moment. \u201cSo yeah, it\u2019s a shot I\u2019ve worked on a million times, and I\u2019ll work on it a million times more. Just have confidence in that shot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Knicks could\u2019ve warned Oklahoma City that was coming. It wouldn\u2019t have helped. That\u2019s how clutch Tyrese Haliburton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,126,6,1220,11,197,179,66,196,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-80540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-indiana-pacers","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nba-finals","12":"tag-nba-playoffs","13":"tag-nba-playoffs-2025","14":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sports-plus","17":"tag-tyrese-haliburton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114635771121716689","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}