{"id":440680,"date":"2025-05-05T08:46:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T06:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=440680"},"modified":"2025-05-05T08:46:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T06:46:50","slug":"haliburton-leads-pacers-past-cavaliers-in-game-1-road-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/haliburton-leads-pacers-past-cavaliers-in-game-1-road-upset\/","title":{"rendered":"Haliburton leads Pacers past Cavaliers in Game 1 road upset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1362\" data-end=\"1712\"><strong data-start=\"1362\" data-end=\"1383\">Tyrese Haliburton<\/strong> delivered a dazzling all-around performance to lead the <strong data-start=\"1440\" data-end=\"1458\">Indiana Pacers<\/strong> to a <strong data-start=\"1464\" data-end=\"1508\">121-112 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers<\/strong> in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. The Pacers\u2019 point guard finished with <strong data-start=\"1595\" data-end=\"1642\">22 points, 13 assists, 3 blocks and a steal<\/strong>, marking a playoff stat line never before achieved in Pacers history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1714\" data-end=\"1955\">Indiana controlled most of the game, despite a late fourth-quarter surge by Cleveland. After the Cavs took a brief lead, the Pacers closed with a <strong data-start=\"1860\" data-end=\"1873\">20-10 run<\/strong>, highlighted by a Haliburton step-back three and a chase-down block turned layup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1957\" data-end=\"2164\"><strong data-start=\"1957\" data-end=\"1991\">\u201cWe know we\u2019re the underdogs,\u201d<\/strong> Haliburton said. \u201cBut we believe in ourselves and in our style of play.\u201d Six Pacers scored in double figures, including <strong data-start=\"2112\" data-end=\"2163\">Andrew Nembhard\u2019s 23 points on 5-of-6 from deep<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"2166\" data-end=\"2254\"><strong data-start=\"2166\" data-end=\"2193\">Game 2 is Tuesday night<\/strong> in Cleveland, with Indiana now holding home-court advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 22 points, 13 assists and elite defense, Tyrese Haliburton stuns Cleveland to open the Eastern Conference semifinals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":440668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[259],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-440680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-serie-a"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/05\/GqJYSyyWkAAenoR.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440680"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=440680"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=440680"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=440680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}