Caitlin Clark was among the many basketball lovers who pulled up a seat to watch the Indiana Pacers and Tyrese Haliburton stomp on the heart of the New York Knicks in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference Finals matchup on Wednesday.
And the young WNBA superstar issued a powerful statement as a result of it all.
In the 138-135 OT win, Haliburton had 31 points and 11 assists and Aaron Nesmith had 30 points, each of them making clutch play after clutch play ... especially in the late going.
It's become a habit of sorts for coach Rick Carlisle's team ...
And who gets is better than the Indiana Fever's game-changing star Clark?
Her tweet to put it all in perspective?
"PACERS ARE THE GREATEST COMEBACK TEAM IVE EVER SEEN," she wrote on X.
Clark has of course been a huge supporter of the Pacers since she arrived in town a year ago, and the Pacers have returned the favor. She and and Haliburton have become pals in hoops-mad Indy, and Haliburton was at the Fever’s first game of the season against the Chicago Sky last weekend.
The two teams are intertwined. The two stars are connected.
And the Pacers are now one step closer to the NBA Finals.
Incredibly, the Knicks led by 14 points with just under three minutes to play in regulation at which time Nesmith and Haliburton got cooking; 20 of Nesmith's came in the epic fourth quarter.
Jalen Brunson led the Knicks way with 43 points, while Karl-Anthony Towns had 35 plus 12 rebounds, but neither of them could make their late game-tying three-pointer tries.
But after Haliburton's late-game make? He put his hands around his neck, like Pacers legend Reggie Miller once did against the Knicks, to signal that New York had choked away the game.
And how correct is Caitlin? Since 1996-97, teams that have trailed by 7 or more points in the final 50 seconds of the fourth quarter or OT in the playoffs have a record of 4-1,702.
The Pacers own three of those wins. And they've all happened year.