Pacers fans at home arena watch party react to Haliburton game winner in NBA Finals Game 1

Alex Walsh

Pacers fans at home arena watch party react to Haliburton game winner in NBA Finals Game 1 image

The Pacers stormed back to steal Game 1 dramatically once again.

Rightfully so, Pacers fans were very excited when the game-winning shot fell.

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Pacers fans react to Haliburton's game-winner

Despite Haliburton hitting his fourth game-winning/tying fourth-quarter shot this postseason, fans treated it like a new moment:

Haliburton might have to pull out some more of this magic again at some point in this series.

The Pacers and their fans have to feel good stealing a road game, that they needed eventually as an underdog, especially in a game they had no business winning.

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Alex Walsh

Alex is a freelance writer with The Sporting News. A current Sports Media major at Hofstra University in New York, he is a huge Celtics and NBA fan who gets way too many notifications from NBA insiders on X. He became interested in PDC Darts at the beginning of 2024 and has been obsessed ever since.