Haliburton immediately went down and started hitting the floor and crying out in pain. As play stopped, league MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander stopped near his fellow Olympian to say

Haliburton was in the middle of one of the best postseason runs in NBA playoff history, guiding the Pacers to the NBA Finals by leading several improbable comebacks and hitting game-changing shots against the Milwaukee Bucks, New York Knicks and OKC.

Shai Gilgeous- Alexander will join an elite list of players who won both the Kia NBA season MVP and the Bill Russell NBA Finals MVP in the same season.