{"id":829595,"date":"2025-05-07T09:44:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T13:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?p=829595"},"modified":"2025-05-07T09:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T13:48:07","slug":"tyrese-haliburton-calls-game-again-this-time-against-cleveland-in-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/news\/nba\/tyrese-haliburton-calls-game-again-this-time-against-cleveland-in-game-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyrese Haliburton calls game AGAIN\u2014this time against Cleveland in Game 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tyrese Haliburton is having a postseason for the ages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After being voted as the most overrated player by his counterparts in <em>The Athletic&#8217;s<\/em> anonymous player poll back in April, the two-time All-Star has all but silenced those critics with clutch shots and signature performances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He first crossed up Giannis to hit a series-winning layup to eliminate the Milwaukee Bucks in the first round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then after being down by as much as 20 on the road to the top-seeded Cavs, the Pacers clawed their way back into Game 2 within the final minute of play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the &#8220;overrated&#8221; chants followed Haliburton to Cleveland, he silenced the home crowd with one shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Down two with seconds to play, Haliburton grabbed his miss on a free throw and reset Indiana&#8217;s offense at the top of the key. He hit Ty Jerome with two crossovers before stepping back and draining a cold-blooded three to put Indiana up one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ballgame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TYRESE HALIBURTON WINS GAME 2 FOR THE PACERS \ud83d\ude31\ud83e\udd2f<br><br>WHAT. A. WILD. PLAY. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rFsjZmtrBz\">pic.twitter.com\/rFsjZmtrBz<\/a><\/p>&mdash; NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1919933647932551462?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not a single &#8220;overrated&#8221; chant could be heard in the Rocket Arena. However, those chants and detractors only fuel the Iowa State product, who thrives when people doubt him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I love negativity. I love seeing negativity on Twitter. I love hearing people say negative comments about my game. It always interests me. It could be somebody with, like, no followers, I just want to prove them wrong,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/the-magazine\/tyrese-haliburton-245\/\">Haliburton said in an interview with SLAM.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This postseason, Haliburton and his team have done just that\u2014continuously proving everyone wrong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pacers have been one of the most efficient teams in the postseason. Haliburton himself is averaging a double-double, dropping a quiet 18.4 points per game while dishing out 10.7 dimes a game against top competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They easily handled the Bucks in the first round, and after being underdogs in both games against the Cavaliers, stole home-court advantage from the top dogs in The Land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the Pacers traveling back to their home court up 2-0, Haliburton&#8217;s got everybody in the state of Indiana excited\u2014especially his fellow star counterpart on the Fever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TY!!!!!!!! WHAT A WIN !!!!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pacers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Pacers<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Caitlin Clark (@CaitlinClark22) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaitlinClark22\/status\/1919932188855865369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyrese Haliburton is having a postseason for the ages. After being voted as the most overrated player by his counterparts in The Athletic&#8217;s anonymous player poll back in April, the two-time All-Star has all but silenced those critics with clutch shots and signature performances. He first crossed up Giannis to hit a series-winning layup to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":829597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[99,63379],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-829595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-tyrese-haliburton"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829595"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829608,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829595\/revisions\/829608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829595"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=829595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}