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.

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.

John has been out of the postseason spotlight since a heated exchange with Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo at the end of Indiana's first-round series in April led to a decision that he would not attend the Pacers' playoff run moving forward.

After a miraculous Game 1 comeback, it's time for the Indiana Pacers to try to move another win closer to the 2025 NBA Finals. The Pacers and New York Knicks will play in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals Friday night at Madison Square Garden.

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

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.