NBA Finals Game 1 Live Reaction: Pacers Stun the Thunder

Brian Windhorst & The Hoop Collective

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🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Brian Windhorst and Iman Shumpert react courtside to Game 1 of the NBA Finals. In a jaw-dropping Game 1 of the 2025 NBA Finals, the Indiana Pacers pulled off a stunning 111-110 comeback victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder. Despite trailing for nearly the entire game, Tyrese Haliburton hit a clutch jumper with just 0.3 seconds left to steal the win. The Thunder, led by MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, dominated early but couldn’t close it out as Indiana’s resilience and late-game shooting turned the tide. The Pacers now lead the series 1-0 . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Okay, welcome to the Hoop Collective.
0:11.0	We talk about the NBA.
0:13.0	We are here on the court at the end of finals game one with our special guest for the finals,
0:19.0	2016 NBA champion.
0:22.6	I'm on Shumper.
0:23.4	I'm distraught.
0:27.0	You're distraught because you've never seen stuff like that.
0:28.0	Is that way you're distra?
0:32.5	I'm more so, yeah, I guess that's what it is. All the elements that was involved,
0:34.1	the SGA winning the matchup,
0:38.0	OKC winning the turnover.
0:40.7	Oh, they won it.
0:42.2	The turnover rate.
0:43.3	Yeah, they won that.
0:46.0	And then Halliburton gets loose at the end.
0:51.1	Like, I just, I need that last four minutes back before the game
0:55.1	I was talking to the Pacer's coach right and he goes they're awesome talking about the thunder
1:00.8	they're awesome he goes the way that we can win is by giving him into a close game at the end
1:07.0	because we're better at that than they are they're better at almost everything but we're better than we're better at that than they are. They're better at almost everything,
1:12.0	but we're better than we're better at that. At closing the game. Exactly how we called it.
1:16.7	So I think their goal, especially in a game where they're not hot on threes, there might be a game
1:21.5	in this series where they get hot on threes and they just win it going away. But their goal is to
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