Entering Game 1 of the 2025 NBA Finals, the Indiana Pacers were already having probably the most miraculous playoff run in NBA history. You figured, if any shred of statistical and/or basketball logic still existed in the world, the luck would run out.

Tyrese Haliburton , who is on some kind of magical carpet ride right now, had other ideas. With three tenths of a second on the clock, Haliburton capped another furious Indiana comeback with a game-winning jumper as the Pacers shocked the Oklahoma City Thunder , on their home floor, 111-110 to take a 1-0 lead in a series in which few picked them to even be competitive.

Perhaps now we're all going to finally learn our lesson. These Pacers are for real, as ridiculous as that sounds to be making such a statement about a team that is i

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