{"id":493096,"date":"2025-06-06T03:16:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T07:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=493096"},"modified":"2025-06-06T03:17:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T07:17:24","slug":"another-haliburton-buzzer-beater-stuns-thunder-as-pacers-take-game-1","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/another-haliburton-buzzer-beater-stuns-thunder-as-pacers-take-game-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Haliburton buzzer-beater stuns Thunder as Pacers take Game 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"24\" data-end=\"219\">Tyrese Haliburton delivered a dramatic game-winner with just 0.3 seconds left to lift the Indiana Pacers to a thrilling 111\u2013110 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 1 of the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"221\" data-end=\"620\">The Pacers trailed the entire night, falling behind by as many as 15 points in the fourth quarter. But in the final seconds, after Thunder star and MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander missed a key jumper with 12 seconds remaining, Indiana seized the moment.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"221\" data-end=\"620\">Haliburton grabbed the outlet pass and raced down the floor before sinking a 21-foot shot to give his team their only lead of the night\u2014just in time.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"622\" data-end=\"766\">It marked the fourth clutch moment for Haliburton in the 2025 playoffs, having now hit three game-winners and another shot that forced overtime.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">frame it \ud83d\uddbc\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d1C4ocH89R\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/d1C4ocH89R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Indiana Pacers (@Pacers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pacers\/status\/1930827247155318983?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"768\" data-end=\"1042\">Despite turning the ball over 25 times\u201420 of them in the first half\u2014the Pacers managed to outlast the Thunder. Gilgeous-Alexander led all scorers with 38 points, but it wasn\u2019t enough to preserve the win. Pascal Siakam paced Indiana with 19 points, while Obi Toppin added 17.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1044\" data-end=\"1209\">Reflecting on the Thunder\u2019s late collapse, Jalen Williams admitted, \u201cWe played like we were trying to keep the lead instead of trying to extend it or be aggressive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1044\" data-end=\"1209\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u7AbRqauz7E?si=0P_pxiIgrKVz6u0w\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyrese Haliburton delivered a dramatic game-winner with just 0.3 seconds left to lift the Indiana Pacers to a thrilling 111\u2013110 victory over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":493097,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16971,16786,21304],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18386,17840,21305],"acf":{"announce":"Indiana's star player proved crucial once again as he netted a basket with 0.3 seconds on the clock","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/493096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493096"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/493096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493101,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/493096\/revisions\/493101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493096"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=493096"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=493096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}