NEW YORK - Tyrese Haliburton tied with a long jumper, bounced high from the back of the edge, continuing to expire in the regulations over time, before the Indiana Pacers ended their amazing rally 138-135 in the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals Wednesday night.

The Knicks led by 14 points with three minutes left in the regulations, but Aaron Nesmith brought the Pacers back with a three-pointer.

Halliburton then hoped he won another one. As the Pacers fell twice, time fell, he began to lose control of the dribble, resumed the dribble, and then extended toward the 3-point line. He fired the jumper and when it finally fell into the game, he raced to the sidelines, sending a cho signal to the crowd, just like Pacers Hall of Fame member Reggie Miller, who was in the playoffs while leading the Pacers back in the playoffs in 1994.

The replay confirmed Halliburton's toe online, which was a 2-pointer, tied it to 125.

Pacers guard Andrew Nembhard ended up marching baskets in OT at 26 seconds.

According to ESPN Analytics, the Knicks' chance of winning in Game 1 was 99.8% when they rose 14 times in the end of the fourth quarter.

According to Elias Sports Bureau, the team that entered the last minute of the fourth quarter or overtime of the playoffs on Wednesday has been 9 points or more behind in the last minute of the playoffs or overtime since 1998. Now they are 1-1,414.

“We played a lot of games and it felt like another team had control,” Halliburton said in a post-match interview on the court. “It didn’t end until it was over, until it reached zero.”

Game 2 is Friday night.

Halliburton scored 31 points and 11 assists. Nesmith finished with a score of 30 points and made 8 shots from the 3-point range.

The Pacers won a game against Milwaukee in the first round when they fell 7 points behind with 40 seconds left in overtime before stealing a game from top seed Cleveland when they were 7 points behind with 46 seconds left for the remaining 46 seconds.

Another round, another round makes a comeback.

"It's always special. It's always fun," Nesmith said. "This is our life."

It was an exciting start to the ninth playoff showdown between these fierce rivals in the 1990s, but the Knicks' shrinking ended in its first Eastern Conference Finals since 2000.

Jalen Brunson scored 43 points and Karl-Anthony Towns had 35 points and 12 rebounds. However, the Knicks couldn't protect their big lead on Brunson's bench for the fourth quarter foul, unlike anyone else in the playoffs.

"Give them a lot of honors. They're going to end the game, like they've been in all the playoffs," Brunson said. "It's just that we're not that good."

The Pacers beat the Knicks in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference semifinals last year at Madison Square Garden, which led to a team defeated by injury.

It was a completely different way of winning, after the Knicks scored 14-0 with Brunson on the bench to raise New York's two-point lead to 108-92, the Pacers eliminated all of them except the game.

Even after Nesmith started getting hot, the Knicks seemed safe when Brunson's 3-pointer scored 119-105 with a 2:51 run. But Nesmith later scored three consecutive times, and when the Knicks made a deliberate foul, two free throws so he couldn't try to tie it up with another guy, giving Indiana a chance to get Halliburton's shot percentage.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.