The guard of the Indiana point has already been “ignored” in the championship and the team leader is now undeniable
The NBA is full of super star and disputes to find out who today’s greatest names are. But the 2024/25 season has a culminating point that has run out in recent years: Tyrese Halliburton.
At the age of 25, the flagship guard of Indiana Pacers exceeds the label of “south” and guides the team in a countryside that seemed unlikely, winning the favorites and open 2-0 in the East Conference final against the New York Knicks.
The history of the Haliburton NBA began in 2020 when he was enrolled in the 12th by the Kings sacrament. He did not spend much time before the opponents were noticed the characteristic of the “pure” guard, capable of decisive passages and facilitating the moves to their companions.
Despite the good numbers, the player was exchanged with the pacer in 2022. The kings decided to be with the star de’Aron Fox and involved Halliburton in a negotiation by Domantas Sabonis, Justin Holiday and Jeremy Lamb.
In the new team, Hisselver employed a little more to adapt, but was considered one of the stars of the NBA in the 2022/23 season, when it was selected for the first time for the All-Star match.
The following year he was even more glorious, transporting the Pacers of Indiana to the Eastern Conference final, losing only against Boston Celtics, who was the 2023/24 champion. Despite the elimination, Halliburton concluded that season with impressive 752 assists.
Overrated or star?
In the current championship season, Halliburton was slow to appear. Incons meter games and a shy Pacers campaign have contributed to a slightly different image on what it could become.
The perception has changed so much that the archival was chosen as the most overrated player in the NBA in April of this year, with an anonymous vote made by the athletes themselves.
“I don’t have much to talk about it. Everything that interests me concerns our locker room and win the games,” Halliburton said at a press conference at the beginning of the playoffs.
What many of the critics did not count was that the owner of an owners would “warmed” at the right time. Pacers qualified fourth in the East, but managed to beat Milwaukee Bucks in the first 4-1 round.
The real shock followed, when they repeat the 4-1 only this time against the Cleveland Cavaliers, a franchise with the best campaign of the League of the year and seen as a favorite of the NBA title.
Crazy match against the knicks
Halliburton has given another test that could be one of the great faces of the NBA in the future in game 1 of the East Conference final against the New York Knicks. In the middle of Madison Square Garden, considering the basketball “Mecca” in New York, the archival has conducted an unlikely turning point against the owners of houses.
The pacers were 9 points with less than 1 minute until the end of the clash. It was then that Aaron Nesmith, who made eight three points in the game, put the team back in the game.
With only two disadvantage points and the last possession in hand, Halliburton seemed to save the day. In an epic shot, the archivator saw the ball hit the air, climbing and falling into the basket, silenced the rival fans.
The excitement was so much that Halliburton celebrated the legend of the Pacers Reggie Miller, who in 1994 against the Knicks put his hands on his neck, as if he were suffocated, to cause Spike Lee, iconic Knick fan.
A curiosity is that Miller himself, who today is a commentator on TV in the United States, was in the gym at the moment and witnessed the homage.
But the Halburton basket was not three points, which seemed to be, and the game was for the extension. In extra time, he only gave Pacer, who opened 1-0 in the series.
In a press conference after the duel, the owner of an owners revealed that he would not have such an iconic celebration if he knew it was not for three points.
“If I knew it would be for two, I wouldn’t have done it.
The second game, played on Friday (23), also in New York, showed an even stronger Indian and able to control the game. With 39 points from Pascal Siakam, the Pacers have opened 2-0 and will have the opportunity to win the place for the NBA final at home. The game 3 takes place this Sunday (25), at 21h (Brasilia).
Source: Terra
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