Milwaukee Bucks – Indiana Pacers · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 29 April 2025

MIL118–119IND

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 98% of NBA games since 2017

· It was still open in the final minutes
· The win probability swung between the two teams 22 times
· It stayed close for almost the whole game

It measures how much the win probability moved during the game —without looking at who won or at the score— and compares it with the 10,950 NBA games with a curve since 2017. “Highly recommended” is the most intense 20%, “recommended” runs from 50% to 80%, and “skippable” is the rest. Source: ESPN.

↑ IND winsMIL wins ↓

Home team's win probability across the game (source: ESPN). The band rises when IND leads and falls when MIL does.

This is how the game was decided.

Tyrese Haliburton decided it, the Indiana Pacers player with the most points (26, with 5 rebounds and 9 assists; -3 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Obi Toppin's (+5). The criterion: the winner's points in the box score; plus-minus says who was on the floor when the game opened up.

The game-winner in Indiana Pacers 119-118 Milwaukee Bucks (April 29, 2025) was hit by Tyrese Haliburton: a layup with 1.1 s left in overtime, putting the Indiana Pacers up 119-118. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Indiana Pacers 119-118 Milwaukee Bucks (April 29, 2025) was a 13-0 run by the Milwaukee Bucks in the first quarter (from 10:32 to 8:09), from 0-0 to 13-0. The Indiana Pacers' best was a 9-0 run in the third quarter (from 10:52 to 9:03), from 43-51 to 52-51.

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Play: Tyrese Haliburton makes driving layup.

I count as the game-winner the basket that puts the winning team ahead for good. Source: the official NBA play-by-play (since 2002-03) and each team's official box scores.

A run here is consecutive points by one team without the opponent scoring. Source: the official NBA play-by-play (since 2002-03) and each team's official box scores.

Source: the game's official box score and play-by-play.

Tyrese Haliburton decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 1.1 seconds left in overtime 1, and the opponent never led again.

It is one of the 7 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Haliburton decided

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A game is decided by the last basket that puts a team ahead in the final ten seconds of the fourth quarter or of an overtime, if that team wins.

29 April 2025 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401768050:692; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Rotations · who was on the floor

Closing lineup · MIL

Trent · Porter · Green · Antetokounmpo · Portis

Closing lineup · IND

Turner · Haliburton · Nesmith · Siakam · Nembhard

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MIL

Gary Trent Jr.

48′ · -8

Kevin Porter Jr.

47′ · +4

AJ Green

46′ · +6

Giannis Antetokounmpo

44′ · -2

Bobby Portis

44′ · +1

Jericho Sims

11′ · -3

Kyle Kuzma

13′ · -1

Brook Lopez

8′ · 0

Taurean Prince

4′ · -2

IND

Myles Turner

43′ · -5

Tyrese Haliburton

42′ · -3

Aaron Nesmith

41′ · +3

Pascal Siakam

41′ · +1

Andrew Nembhard

37′ · 0

Jarace Walker

11′ · +1

T.J. McConnell

17′ · +1

Bennedict Mathurin

16′ · +1

Obi Toppin

11′ · +5

Ben Sheppard

6′ · +1

Thomas Bryant

0′ · 0

Each bar is a stint on the floor (source: NBA). The number is minutes played and the team's +/− with him on the court. MIL and IND.

These lineups played the most minutes together.

Milwaukee Bucks

Portis, Trent, Porter, Green, and Antetokounmpo played 33.0 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
Portis, Prince, Trent, Green, and Antetokounmpo played 3.4 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Portis, Kuzma, Porter, Green, and Antetokounmpo played 2.6 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 5 points.

Indiana Pacers

Turner, Siakam, Nembhard, Haliburton, and Nesmith played 26.9 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Turner, Nembhard, Haliburton, Nesmith, and Walker played 8.9 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Siakam, Toppin, Mathurin, Sheppard, and McConnell played 6.2 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.

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Milwaukee Bucks

Portis, Kuzma, Trent, Porter, and Sims played 2.5 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 4 points.
Kuzma, Porter, Sims, Green, and Lopez played 2.4 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Kuzma, Trent, Porter, Sims, and Lopez played 2.2 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
Portis, Trent, Porter, Sims, and Green played 1.7 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 4 points.
Kuzma, Trent, Sims, Lopez, and Antetokounmpo played 1.3 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Trent, Porter, Sims, Green, and Antetokounmpo played 1.2 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Trent, Porter, Green, Lopez, and Antetokounmpo played 1.1 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.

Indiana Pacers

Siakam, Toppin, Haliburton, Mathurin, and McConnell played 3.9 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 5 points.
Turner, Siakam, Nesmith, Mathurin, and McConnell played 2.8 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.
Turner, Siakam, Haliburton, Mathurin, and McConnell played 1.2 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 4 points.
Turner, Nembhard, Nesmith, Walker, and McConnell played 1.1 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.

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The lineups come from the NBA's official rotation: who was on the floor and when. Each lineup's plus-minus is worked out from every player's stints and is only shown when they all add up with each other and with the final score.

Kevin Porter Jr. covered 6.13 km, more than anyone in the game.

Tyrese Haliburton touched the ball 126 times, a game high.
Tyrese Haliburton made 99 passes, a game high.
Giannis Antetokounmpo had 24 rebound chances, a game high.

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Milwaukee Bucks

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Kevin Porter Jr.	6.13	7.3	71	56
AJ Green	5.94	7.1	58	46
Bobby Portis Jr.	5.36	6.8	54	34
Gary Trent Jr.	5.36	6.2	57	25
Giannis Antetokounmpo	5.02	6.3	116	79
Kyle Kuzma	1.67	7.4	20	13
Jericho Sims	1.51	7.6	17	12
Brook Lopez	0.93	6.6	9	7
Taurean Prince	0.56	7.8	7	5

Indiana Pacers

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Myles Turner	5.16	6.7	50	31
Tyrese Haliburton	5.13	6.8	126	99
Aaron Nesmith	5.10	7.0	58	43
Andrew Nembhard	4.81	7.2	76	58
Pascal Siakam	4.78	6.5	53

The figures come from the NBA's optical tracking (NBA.com) for this game; speed is each player's average while on the floor.

Who stood out on defense during the season

These figures cover the whole 2024-25 regular season, not this game.

Milwaukee Bucks

Brook Lopez contested 13.6 shots per game over his 80 games.
He ranks 1 of 388 in the league.
Kyle Kuzma drew 0.14 charges per game over his 64 games.
He ranks 23 of 388 in the league.
Bobby Portis contested 6.3 shots per game over his 49 games.
He ranks 43 of 388 in the league.

Indiana Pacers

Aaron Nesmith drew 0.16 charges per game over his 45 games.
He ranks 16 of 388 in the league.
Myles Turner contested 8.7 shots per game over his 72 games.
He ranks 19 of 388 in the league.
Pascal Siakam recovered 0.8 loose balls per game over his 78 games.
He ranks 19 of 388 in the league.

Hustle figures come from the hustle stats the NBA publishes (NBA.com) and rim defense comes from its tracking; both cover the regular season. For each player in this game we show the figure that ranks him highest in the league, and for each team, the three best ranked. Ranks count players with at least 30 games and, at the rim, at least 4 defended shots per game.

The Indiana Pacers have won 111 of their 238 games against the Milwaukee Bucks.

111-127record of the Indiana Pacers · NBA 1976-77 – 2025-26, regular season and playoffs

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Official NBA box scores, regular season and playoffs, 1976-77 – 2025-26. It counts every game between the two teams that the house holds, this one included.

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Game context

Attendance

17.274

96.4% of capacity

Gainbridge Fieldhouse · Indianapolis

Series

Game 5

First round

IND 4-1

Scoring

237

combined points

19.5 above the season average (217.5)

⚖️ The last two minutes

Official NBA L2M report: every call in the endgame, reviewed by the league.

25 calls reviewed1 errors admitted by the NBA

Foul: Shooting · 00:17.1

AJ Green → Tyrese Haliburton

Green (MIL) maintains a legal guarding position alongside of Haliburton (IND) during his drive to the basket and shot attempt.