Indiana Pacers began to develop this habit.

The team once again made an impossible fourth quarter comeback in the playoffs, stealing a game from its opponents. This is the route against the Oklahoma City Thunder in the first game of the 2025 NBA Finals Thursday, June 5.

Indiana has done a great job, proving that it will never stand out completely. But games like this are sometimes better quantized on numbers, and that's no exception.

Viewpoint: The Pacers teach the Thunder hard courses in the NBA finals.

Here are 17 crazy statistics from Indiana's first game in the field, the Oklahoma City Thunder's comeback:

1. This is the first time in the Eastern Conference team in the past 15 months (Tuesday, March 12, 2024). What was their opponent that night? Indiana Pacers.
2. The Pacers made 25 turnovers, but still won. Their turnover difference of -19 was the worst difference for a team in the NBA Finals, which gave the second-tier team (the Bucks in 1974) a score of 7 points.
3. The Pacers also set the worst turnover difference in their playoff wins, surpassing the -15 set by the Grizzlies in their first round against the Clippers in 2012.
4. Since 1971, the fourth-biggest 15 points in the NBA Finals have been tied for the fourth quarter.
5. The last two fourth quarter comebacks with at least 15 points in the NBA Finals were teams directed by Rick Carlisle: the Pacers’ victory Thursday night and Thursday, June 2, 2011, when Carlisle’s Mavericks won the Heat.
6. This playoffs, when the Pacers face a deficit of at least 15 points, their record is 5-3 (.625).
7. Indiana's playoff record in clutch games is 8-1 (.889).
8. The Pacers took the first lead on Tyrese Haliburton's 21-foot jump shot with 0.3 seconds left. It marks the latest final match since 1971, with a team leading the way.
9. The comeback marks Indiana's fifth comeback in a 2025 playoff deficit of at least 15 points, a team in a playoffs since 1998.
10. Since 1971, the team that has fallen behind by at least 9 points in the last three minutes of the NBA Finals is 0-182. After the first game, the mark is now 1-182 (.005).
11. The Thunder guard and NBA's most valuable player Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's 38 points rank third for the player, behind only the NBA Finals, behind only the 48 of Allen Iverson (2001) and George Mikan's 42 (1949).
12. Tyrese Haliburton took the lead or lead in the last two minutes (including overtime). This gave him a hit rate of 86.7% for this attempt.
13. Because 6 of these 13 shots were 3 goals, he scored 32 points in these 15 attempts, giving him 2.13 points per attempt.
14. He kept crying that his score on this attempt was actually lowered from entering the first game (2.14) as his first game winner was not a three-pointer.
15. Halliburton is a ridiculous 106.7% effective percentage of shots when breaking down these numbers to illustrate the added value of the 3-pointer. This figure also fell with the situation entering the night (107.1%).
16. Haliburton is now tied for five shots with former Pacers legend Reggie Miller, leading or leading the NBA playoffs since 1997. LeBron James leads all eight players.
17. Haliburton now wins the game or game victory in the final seconds of Indiana’s four-game playoff series.

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