No matter who wins the NBA Finals, the Pacers are not a fluke. They’re the real deal, proving that in Game 1 win a stunning comeback.

"After you have a run like last year, and then you get swept in the Eastern Conference finals, and all the conversation is about how you don't belong there, and how you lucked out to get there, and that it was a fluke, guys are going to be pissed off," Haliburton said. "We're going to spend the summer pissed off."

Haliburton, considered overrated by some of his peers, came up big again in Game 1 when his jumper with 0.3 seconds left gave Indiana a 111-110 victory over the heavily favored Thunder.