The Pacers fought off a late surge from the Knicks to assert a 112-106 victory in Sport 4 of their ECF sequence to take Indiana to a 3-1 sequence lead in entrance of a raucous Gainbridge Fieldhouse crowd.
Led by Tyrese Haliburton, who posted a historic 32-point triple-double within the win – 15 assists and 12 rebounds and 0 turnovers.
Haliburton is now the third participant, together with Oscar Robertson and Nikola Jokić, to place up a 30-15-10 triple-double within the playoffs. He’s additionally the primary to try this and not using a turnover.
He additionally grew to become second participant EVER to have 30-plus factors and NO turnovers, in addition to the primary participant in historical past with a triple-double on 0 turnovers within the Convention Finals.
Pascal Siakam added 30 factors and Aaron Nesmith chipped in 16.
The large recreation from Hali may have been sparked by the truth that his dad John, was allowed again within the constructing, following a ban after an altercation with Giannis earlier within the sequence.
“Hell yeah. Glad to have pops within the constructing. It makes it that a lot sweeter,” Haliburton stated in his on-field interview.
He later added, “Clearly, my dad being right here is particular. However I imply, rising up, like, my dad was reffing for lots of the weekend, so he didn’t get to come back to lots of my video games rising up, so when he would come to any of them, I needed to play properly. So, with him being within the constructing, in fact I needed to play properly.
“I do know we’re saying, “Free Pops,” and “Pops is free!” However he was not in jail,” he added, jokingly. “He was in a really stunning residence, sitting very fairly watching NBA basketball. He’s simply high-quality. Yeah, I used to be completely happy he was within the constructing.”
As for New York, the most important lead that they had all night time was two factors and had been enjoying catch up many of the night time anyway.
The Pacers with all of the momentum, the sequence shifts again to Madison Sq. Backyard for a pivotal Sport 5.
“I’ve by no means recognized this staff to stop,” Josh Hart stated. “That’s not the character of the blokes we’ve within the locker room.”