Historic NBA Playoff Game: Pacers' Stunning Comeback Win

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00:00a game that will instantly live in playoff history in the national basketball association

00:05forever last night inside the world's most famous arena that's madison square garden game number one

00:12of the eastern conference finals the new york knicks playing host to the indiana pacers new

00:17york booked as a four and a half point home favorite for the opening game of this series

00:22a total standing at 222 and the rs a comeback that we will remember literally forever in nba playoff

00:32history a historic comeback in nba playoff history if like donnie you went to bed last night a little

00:39bit before 10 30 p.m eastern time with the new york knicks leading by 17 points with just over six

00:45minutes remaining in regulation even if you held out for a couple more minutes of game time and you

00:51finally turned off the television and hit the sack at around 14 point lead for new york with two

00:58minutes and 45 seconds remaining understandable heck if you even held on to the final minute of

01:04regulation with the knicks ahead by eight points eight points with 34 ticks remaining in regulation

01:11understandable it got dicey but the knicks prevailed right wrong courtesy of an aaron neesmith

01:19heater and a tyrese halliburton step back long two pointer sending the game to overtime indiana

01:27prevails in that extra session 138 135 indiana wins outright as a four and a half point underdog a total

01:37of 222 that skied over by the time we got to the end of regulation sales through that number in ot

01:44as well the pacers have been the cardiac comeback kids the entirety of this postseason and they pull

01:52it off once again the rs for a third consecutive series in the very first game of this series the

01:58most important of the postseason so far game number one of the eastern conference finals do you know

02:04how many things down the stretch have to go exactly correct for the pacers and exactly wrong for the

02:09new york knicks to win that basketball game and they did that's what it takes like when you have

02:13like a 99.8 percentile to win that game and you lose and just going back on some of the numbers

02:1814 plus points with late late in a fourth quarter the playoffs like yeah 979 you know and you lose that

02:24it takes a lot you take those missed free throws at the end of the game which we saw crazy shots going

02:30down for the pacers but it happened and the new york knicks are gonna have to respond to game number

02:33two which we'll get to later in the show but understanding how you fall apart at home with so much

02:38on your side and also bad that fourth quarter right start off a little bit dicey you get the

02:42fifth foul right away for brunson it's like hey the knicks just need to buy some time and hope they

02:46have the lead by the time brunson can get back into the game they extended the lead it was a wrap

02:50that's why i went to bed it's like oh this could get interesting no it wasn't interesting it looked

02:54like the knicks are gonna win by 20 plus points going away see you in game number two knicks up in

02:58the series one to nothing and all hell broke loose down the stretch which included an unbelievable shot

03:04a gravity defying shot by tyrese halliburton which he has his foot on the line which he doesn't know

03:09at the time and he saw the pacers off the bench streaming down the court to celebrate the choke

03:14sign there for halliburton and only to go to overtime but also credit indiana like you had it won you won

03:20the game what a comeback oh still got five more minutes to play here that was only a two-point shot

03:25knicks like okay deep breath will win in overtime and they didn't so it's almost like you won the game

03:30twice for the pacers and you lost the game twice for the knicks here down the stretch an unbelievable

03:35performance where the pacers never gave up and they won that basketball game