Winning Is Fun: Haliburton

He justifies Pacers' faith in him with clutch jumper for 111-110 victory in series opener

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OKLAHOMA CITY - The National Basketball Association (NBA) Finals between the Indiana Pacers and the Oklahoma City Thunder have tipped off, and they started in the most dramatic of ways on June 5.

Indiana's Tyrese Haliburton sank the game-winning basket in the very last second to give the Pacers a stunning 111-110 comeback victory over Oklahoma City in the opening game of the best-of-seven series.

Haliburton, who had 14 points and 10 rebounds, crucially gave his team their only lead of the game on a dramatic jump shot with 0.3sec remaining to deliver a shock after Indiana had trailed by 15 points with 9min 42sec remaining.

"We got the stop and coach trusts us in those moments to not call a timeout, trusts me in those moments, guys trust me and just trying to make a play," the star point guard, 25, said of the last shot.

"Basketball is fun, man, winning is fun," he added during his on-court interview. "That's a great win for us."