Pacers' Tyrese Haliburton stuns NBA with game winner to cap Finals Game 1 epic comeback

Billy Heyen

Pacers' Tyrese Haliburton stuns NBA with game winner to cap Finals Game 1 epic comeback image

Tyrese Haliburton is unstoppable in the final five seconds of games in this postseason.

If you give Haliburton a shot to tie the game or win it, the Indiana Pacers superstar is making it.

It's unbelievable at this point.

The Pacers trailed by a point with nine seconds separating the shot clock and the game clock on Thursday night. They forced a miss by Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, and rather than use timeout, they got the ball to Haliburton and played it out.

Hali dribbled to the right side of the floor, sized up his defender, started a drive and then decided to pull up from 18 feet on the right wing.

Cash.

Ballgame.

Legendary.

There were technically 0.3 seconds left on the clock, but the Pacers got the final stop needed to seal the 111-110 win.

It was the Pacers' first lead of the night.

Haliburton delivered when it mattered, again.

There's no one like him right now. He's captain clutch and one of the best players on the planet, and the Pacers lead the NBA Finals because of him.

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Billy Heyen

Billy Heyen is a freelance writer with The Sporting News. He is a 2019 graduate of Syracuse University who has written about many sports and fantasy sports for The Sporting News. Sports reporting work has also appeared in a number of newspapers, including the Sandusky Register and Rochester Democrat & Chronicle