Shakeia Taylor

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Shakeia Taylor

CLEVELAND - Missing a free throw, then getting your own rebound and making a game-winning 3-pointer all in the span of 12 seconds? It's the stuff basketball dreams are made of. "It's a special feeling, man. It's a lot of fun," Tyrese Haliburton said. "Any basketball fan, or anybody who's involved in basketball at all ... has imagined being a kid, being in the driveway, being in the living room, time winding down in their head, shooting it, missing, and putting more time on the clock.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Shakeia Taylor

CLEVELAND - As the Indiana Pacers closed out the 121-112 win in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series against the Cleveland Cavaliers, a lone Pacers fan clad in a yellow jersey and T-shirt stood and cheered in a sea of fans in wine and gold. He had rooted like that for most of the game. He was loud and difficult to ignore. Like the team he was cheering, he made far more noise than expected. On Sunday night, the Pacers defeated the Cavaliers by closing with a 20-10 run.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Shakeia Taylor

MILWAUKEE - After collecting the rebound off a Kyle Kuzma miss at the rim, Indiana Pacers center Myles Turner passed the ball to point guard Tyrese Haliburton and ran toward the opposite end of the court. Just 20 seconds into the second half, Haliburton quickly passed back to Turner at the top of the wing. Turner dribbled the ball once and then hammered it over Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Shakeia Taylor

INDIANAPOLIS - The counterpunch the Indiana Pacers were expecting from the Milwaukee Bucks finally landed. The Bucks overcame a 10-point halftime deficit to beat Indiana 117-101 in Game 3 Friday night. The win put the Bucks back in the series, trailing 2-1. "We were bad on both sides of the ball," Pacers coach Rick Carlisle said. "They were great; we were bad."Both teams started the game with abysmal shooting, a combined 11 of 46 (23.9 percent) from 3 in the first half.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Shakeia Taylor

INDIANAPOLIS - In Game 2 of the first-round playoff series against Milwaukee, Indiana Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton hammered down a dunk to put his team up by eight points with just over two minutes left to play in the first half. After he landed, Haliburton bent over and yelled at the ball. The sellout crowd of 17,274 erupted along with him. Energy. Emotion. Passion. There was so much of all three in the building that it could've powered Gainbridge Fieldhouse.