2025 NBA Finals: Biggest takeaways from Thunder-Pacers Game 1

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(4) Indiana Pacers lead (1) Oklahoma City Thunder 1-0

Game 1: Pacers 111, Thunder 110

For the first 47 minutes, 40 seconds of Game 1 of the NBA Finals, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander thoroughly outplayed Tyrese Haliburton in a matchup of star point guards.

But as Pacers coach Rick Carlisle said after Indiana's remarkable comeback to beat the New York Knicks in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals: It's a 48-minute game. And, in those final 20 seconds Thursday night, Haliburton and the Pacers changed the narrative ... again.

First, it was Gilgeous-Alexander -- who had 38 points but was 14-for-30 shooting -- missing a clean midrange jumper, his specialty, that would've given the…