Haliburton & Pacers shock Thunder in Game 1

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🗓️ 6 June 2025

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Summary

The Indiana Pacers completed another improbable comeback to steal game one of the NBA Finals from the Oklahoma City Thunder. Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni are live from OKC with their instant reaction to Tyrese Haliburton’s game winner and the Thunder collapse. Then, Anthony Slater joins the show to give his thoughts on the Thunder pregame lineup change and what to look for in game two.

Host: Dave DuFour

With: Es Baraheni & Anthony Slater

Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht

Audio Producer: Grayson Moody

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0:00.0	Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily.
0:09.2	I'm Dave DeFore here with Esperi Hennie at the NBA Finals.
0:12.6	Coming up, the Pacers win another crazy game.
0:16.5	Happens to be game one of the finals.
0:18.2	We were here.
0:18.9	We're going to talk about it.
0:19.9	Then we got Anthony Slater with all the fallout from the post game.
0:28.9	Here we are. We're sitting in the stands right after game one. Tyrese Halliburton hits the game
0:34.2	winner. The Pacers lead this game for 0.3 seconds, S.
0:40.0	Once again, the Pacers pull off another miracle comeback.
0:43.6	Tyrese Halliburton hits another heroic shot.
0:46.9	And this is what we get for doubting the Pacers.
0:50.5	So this was one of the most absurd games that I've watched live ever.
0:57.7	Just thinking about the way that we were, for the majority of this game, we were saying, look, what an OKC masterclass.
1:05.3	This is exactly what they were brought in to do.
1:07.4	The turnovers, I mean, they forced Indiana into, what was it, 25 turnovers in this game, 24 turnovers
1:13.5	in this game.
1:14.4	The way that they were able to wreak havoc on the Pacers to the point where they didn't
1:19.7	like to dribble.
1:20.9	Right.
1:21.3	They didn't want to drive.
1:22.3	There was a point in the second quarter where they were just throwing the ball
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