Tyrese Haliburton tied the game with a long jump shot, bounced high up at the back of the edge, and over time, the Indiana Pacers beat the New York Knicks 138-135 in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals Wednesday night.

The Knicks led by 14 points and had less than three minutes left in the regulations, but Aaron Nesmith brought the Pacers back with a string of three-pointers.

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 choking signal to the crowd, just like the Pacers’ lobby member Reggie Miller led the Pacers back in 1994 while leading the Pacers back in 1994.

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

Game 2 is Friday night.

Halliburton scored 31 points and 11 assists. Nesmith finished with a 30-point shooting percentage of 9.

It was an exciting start to the ninth playoff showdown between these fierce rivals in the 1990s, but the Knicks cut back in the first Eastern Conference final 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.

Since the start of the game in 1997-98, the last 2:45 in the fourth quarter was 994-0 at least 14 points.

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.