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NBA RUNDUP: Pacers remove goats to Tyrese -Haliburton's late layup

Tyrese Haliburton scored 26 points, including the go-a-haeAd layup with 1.4 seconds in extra time.

Haliburton jumped onto the goal scorers' table and raised his arms to celebrate the wild comeback that Indiana achieved a 4-1 win in the best-of-Seven series. The Pacers with fourth seeds climbed into the semi -finals of the east, where they are confronted with the upper seeds with the Cleveland Cavaliers Cleveland.

Indiana remained 118-111 with 40 seconds in overtime. They closed the game with an 8-0 run behind a 3 pointer by Andrew Nembhard, a three-point game from Haliburton and finally a driving layup in which Haliburton Giannis Antetocounmpo blew past the decisive basket.

Antetocounmpo scored with 30 points, 20 rebounds and 13 assists for the Bucks a triple double that played their first game without injured Wachmann Damian Lillard (Achilles). Gary Trent Jr. scored 33 points, including 12 points in extra time. Trent made eight 3 hands, but his turnover with 10.8 seconds in OT had Haliburton's winner of ripening.

Celtics 120, Magic 89

Jayson Tatum scored 35 points to help Boston at the round in the Eastern Conference Playoff series with a win 5 against Orlando.

Tatum was 10 out of 16 off the field and made his attempts at free throwing all eleven, while he added eight rebounds and 10 assists when the Celtics completed their first round in five games for the second time in a row. Jaylen Brown added 23 points for the Celtics, which surpassed the Magic 73-40 in the second half.

The magic lost its sixth series in a row in the episode of 25 points from Franz Wagner from 2010-11. Paolo Banchero collected 19 points, nine rebounds and six templates.

Nuggets 131, Clippers 115

Jamal Murray scored 43 points in the second half of his game height, and Host Denver pushed Los Angeles to the brink of excretion with a win in game 5 of her Western Conference quarter-finals.

Denver won the last two games to take the lead in the first round with 3-2. Game 6 is on Thursday evening in Los Angeles. Murray scored 11 points in a third quarter and added 13th place in fourth place. Nikola Jokic had 13 points, 12 assists and 10 rebounds a third triple double of the series for the nuggets that had never been followed in the background.

James Harden from Los Angeles was recorded on 11 points at 3-against-9 shootout, but Kawhi Leonard had 20 points, 11 assists and nine rebounds and Ivica Zubac added 27 points. Bogdan Bogdanovic scored 18 points, Kris Dunn had 15 and Norman Powell did 12 for the Clipperers.

Pistons 106, Knicks 103

Cade Cunningham scored 24 points, Ausar Thompson added 22 and made a clutch shot in the last two minutes to avoid Detroit in the first round of the playoffs with a coarse -grained victory over New York in game 5.

The Pistons sent the series back to Detroit for game 6 on Thursday. Tobias Harris added 17 points and Dennis Schroder contributed 14 of the bank for the pistons, which shot 42.4 percent. Malik Beasley ended with 10 points, while Jalen Duren added nine points and 14 rebounds.

OG Anunoby scored 19 points to guide the Knicks, who have not won a series on their home square for the first time since the Indiana Pacers beat 6 of the Eastern Conference Final in 1999. Karl-Anthony Towns and Mikal Bridges ended at 17 per piece, but Jalen Brunson was held on 16 at 4-of-16 shooting.

– Field Level Media

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