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'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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'Overrated' Haliburton having last laugh after latest winner

Two months after being named the NBA's "most overrated player" in an anonymous poll of his peers, Tyrese Haliburton is having the last laugh.

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Sportskeeda broke the news in on Friday, June 6, 2025.
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