{"id":84114,"date":"2025-06-08T03:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T03:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/84114\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T03:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T03:02:21","slug":"knicks-pacers-haliburtons-shot-stuns-new-york-in-game-1-of-east-finals-basketball-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/84114\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks-Pacers: Haliburton\u2019s shot stuns New York in Game 1 of East finals | Basketball News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tyrese Haliburton\u2019s incredible game-tying shot at the buzzer triggers Indiana Pacers overtime win against New York Knicks in Game 1 of Eastern Conference finals.<\/p>\n

Tyrese Haliburton was sure his jumper as regulation ended was going in, then wasn\u2019t certain it had after it bounced high off the rim and hung in the air for what felt like an eternity.<\/p>\n

He thought it was a 3-pointer to win the game, then quickly realised it was a 2 to tie. A lot to process, followed by just one thought with overtime looming.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen my focus just became winning it,\u201d Haliburton said.<\/p>\n

The Pacers did, finishing off their stunning rally by beating the New York Knicks 138-135 in overtime on Wednesday night in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals.<\/p>\n

The Knicks led by 14 points with under three minutes remaining in regulation, but Aaron Nesmith brought the Pacers back with a flurry of 3-pointers.<\/p>\n

Haliburton then hoped he had won it with another. With the Pacers down two and time running down, he started to lose control of his dribble, regained it and dribbled back out toward the 3-point line. He fired up his jumper and when it finally fell in, he raced towards the sideline and made a choke signal to the crowd, like Pacers Hall of Famer Reggie Miller did to Spike Lee while leading an Indiana comeback in a playoff game in 1994.<\/p>\n

Replays confirmed that Haliburton\u2019s toe was on the line and it was a 2-pointer that tied it at 125. Andrew Nembhard eventually made the go-ahead basket with 26 seconds remaining in overtime.<\/p>\n

Game 2 in the best-of-seven series is on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Haliburton had 31 points and 11 assists. Nesmith finished with 30 points, going 8-for-9 from 3-point range.<\/p>\n

\"TyreseIndiana Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton (0) shoots the game-tying 2-point shot against New York Knicks centre Mitchell Robinson (23) at the end of regulation [Frank Franklin II\/AP]
\nKnicks stunned by Pacers\u2019 late surge<\/p>\n

It was a thrilling start to the ninth playoff matchup between these fierce rivals from the 1990s \u2013 but a deflating finish for the Knicks in their first Eastern Conference finals game since 2000.<\/p>\n

Jalen Brunson scored 43 points and Karl-Anthony Towns had 35 points and 12 rebounds. But the Knicks couldn\u2019t protect the big lead they built while Brunson was on the bench in foul trouble in the fourth quarter and had a collapse unlike any other in the postseason.<\/p>\n

Teams leading by at least 14 points in the final 2:45 of the fourth quarter had been 994-0 since detailed play-by-play records began in 1997-98.<\/p>\n

\u201cGive them a lot of credit. They closed the game out like they\u2019ve been doing all playoffs,\u201d Brunson said. \u201cJust not really good on our part.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Pacers beat the Knicks in Game 7 of the East semifinals at Madison Square Garden last year, routing a team that had been decimated by injuries.<\/p>\n

This was an entirely different way to win, with the Pacers looking all but out of the game after the Knicks\u2019 14-0 run with Brunson on the bench pushed New York\u2019s two-point lead to 108-92.<\/p>\n

Even after Nesmith started to get hot, the Knicks seemed safe when Brunson\u2019s 3-pointer made it 119-105 with 2:51 to go.<\/p>\n

But Nesmith would later hit consecutive 3s and both free throws when the Knicks fouled him intentionally so he couldn\u2019t try to tie it with another, giving Indiana the chance to tie on Haliburton\u2019s last-second shot.<\/p>\n

\"JalenNew York Knicks guard Jalen Brunson, left, scored a game-high 43 points in Game 1 [Frank Franklin II\/AP]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyrese Haliburton\u2019s incredible game-tying shot at the buzzer triggers Indiana Pacers overtime win against New York Knicks in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,304,6,1136,191,67,3810,3806,275,417,418],"class_list":{"0":"post-84114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-knicks","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-knicks","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkknicks","16":"tag-sport","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-us-canada"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114645522476441267","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84114","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=84114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}