In a thrilling Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals on Wednesday evening, the Indiana Pacers pulled off a narrow win against the New York Knicks 138–135 in overtime at Madison Square Garden in New York City, to take a 1–0 series lead.

Still, the visitors carried that momentum into the extra period and emerged with the win with late baskets from Obi Toppin and Andrew Nembhard. Jalen Brunson and Karl-Anthony Towns also missed threes that could have forced double-overtime as the Pacers completed the stunning win.

The Knicks led by 17 points with 6:26 remaining in the fourth quarter and by nine points with under a minute left, only to lose, 138-135, in overtime at Madison Square Garden.

The Knicks were swamped by a barrage of Pacers threes in the final three minutes of the fourth quarter of Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals before Indiana completed the comeback in the form of a 138-135 gut-punch on Wednesday night.

With just over six minutes left in the fourth quarter of Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals, the New York Knicks were up 17 on the Indiana Pacers. With 2:51 left, after New York had already coughed up some of that lead,

The Pacers used a frantic fourth quarter comeback to overcome a 17-point deficit with less than seven minutes remaining in regulation, and went on to win in overtime. And Caitlin Clark was watching the whole thing.

Caitlin Clark could not hold back her excitement after the Indiana Pacers came back to beat the New York Knicks.

New York had been clutch throughout the playoffs, but it was Indiana — Haliburton and Nesmith especially — who were clutch in Game 1.

The NBA Conference Finals are underway, with Game 1 between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Minnesota Timberwolves concluding Tuesday night in a Thunder win.

Tyrese Haliburton and his team had five minutes to make a comeback. The Pacers were down, 111-98, at that point with Knicks captain Jalen Brunson checking back into the game. Then it happened.