In the regular season, Tyrese Haliburton and the Pacers broke out a football play and hit an insane game-winner to beat the Bucks. Haliburton was just getting started. In the first round of the playoffs,

Indiana faced an impossible deficit against the New York Knicks on Wednesday night. It turns out that’s exactly where they wanted to be.

I won’t relitigate the whole thing but it involved insane 3-point shooting, some abysmal free-throw shooting, and a final-second shot that caromed off the rim 10 feet in the air before settling neatly into the basket. Also, a choke sign.

On Wednesday night, the Indiana Pacers improbably rallied to snag a shocking comeback victory for a third time in their postseason. It's gotten to be such a hab

Still, because Haliburton's foot was on the line, the Knicks could avoid making history if they could recover in overtime. Instead, it was much of the same as the Pacers kept rolling, with Andrew Nembhard doing most of the damage with seven points in the extra period.

The Indiana Pacers were down by as many as 17 points in the fourth quarter, and still trailed by 14 points with 3 minutes and 14 seconds left in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals at New York on

Indiana leads New York 1–0 in the Eastern Conference finals thanks to a historic, late fourth-quarter and overtime stretch to stun the MSG crowd.

"Every team in the NBA wants a guy like Aaron Nesmith," Pacers teammate Tyrese Haliburton said of the Game 1 hero.

Tyrese Haliburton's father may not have been inside Madison Square Garden for the Indiana Pacers' stunning comeback win over the New York Knicks in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals, but John Haliburton still found a way to celebrate.