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Tipoff to Game 1 of the 2025 NBA Finals<\/a> came just after 8:30 p.m. ET, with a deafening crowd at Paycom Center Roaring for Haliburton\u2019s team Oklahoma City Thunder. Oklahoma City Thunder began their pursuit of a first-ever championship in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the Indiana Pacers, the game didn\u2019t start until about an hour later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The visitors came out tight, rushing possessions and abandoning key elements of their game plan.
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Most damaging of all, they turned the ball over 19 times in the first half, a Finals record in the play-by-play era (since 1997). It was exactly what Indiana had hoped to avoid against OKC\u2019s swarming, opportunistic defense.
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And yet, what looked like certain doom was undone by Tyrese Haliburton, who shook off a shaky start to deliver one of his now-trademark game-winners. The win lifted the Pacers out of their self-inflicted mess and stunning the Thunder in the closing seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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