The one who went toe-to-toe with Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing and Shaquille O’Neal. The one whose posters still line the walls of local bars and barbershops. The one who, every time he comes home, receives a champion’s applause — even though he never was one.

Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton acknowledged he needs to "figure out how to be better earlier in games" after getting off to another slow start Sunday night in Oklahoma City -- one Indiana couldn't recover from in a 123-107 Game 2 loss.