Haliburton got the game-winner with 1.1 seconds to play. — May 21, Indiana trailed New York 121-112 with 51.1 seconds left in regulation.

They won 68 regular-season games and 12 playoff games. They know what is required. They will look at the film. Of Indiana’s 25 turnovers, the Thunder had just 11 points off those turnovers.

But games like these are sometimes best quantified in numbers, and this was no exception. OPINION: Pacers teach Thunder hard lesson in NBA Finals Game 1. You cannot count them out.

That was the biggest first-half lead of any playoff Game 1 in the league’s digital play-by-play era that goes back to 1996-97. Oklahoma City had 35-point leads twice — 61-26 and 63-28.

Some 31 years after the infamous “choke” game, the Knicks suffered another all-time-devastating defeat to the Indiana Pacers on Wednesday night in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals.