'Overrated' Haliburton Having Last Laugh After Latest Winner
- Tyrese Haliburton made the game-winning shot for the Indiana Pacers on June 5, 2025, at Oklahoma City's Paycom Center in Game 1 of the NBA Finals.
- Haliburton had been voted the league's most overrated player two months earlier, drawing criticism for his shooting form and scoring despite his playoff impact.
- He responded by hitting multiple clutch shots this postseason, including three go-ahead baskets in the final five seconds of separate games, helping the Pacers build momentum.
- Haliburton recorded a double-double with 21 points and 12 assists in a first-round series and expressed confidence in his shooting ability, addressing past doubts about his jump shot as he entered the NBA.
- While Indiana leads the Finals 1-0, it remains uncertain if they can upset the Western Conference champion Thunder, but Haliburton’s performance has silenced many doubters so far.
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Qualified as the most overvalued player of the NBA by several of his peers in April, the leader of the Pacers Tyrese Haliburton silenced his critics.
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If there is one way to shut the mouths of your critics, it’s to take what they critique you on and throw it in their faces. That is essentially what Indiana Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton is doing to one critic after another. Many of those critics are his peers, as was made evident in The Athletic’s 2024-25 NBA players survey. Haliburton was voted the most overrated player in the league. It was nonsense then, and it remains nonsense now as Halibu…
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