{"id":23324,"date":"2025-09-13T04:30:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T08:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/13\/lakers-legend-magic-johnson-provided-this-advice-to-pacers-tyrees-halliburton-ahead-of-game-4-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T04:30:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T08:30:30","slug":"lakers-legend-magic-johnson-provided-this-advice-to-pacers-tyrees-halliburton-ahead-of-game-4-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/13\/lakers-legend-magic-johnson-provided-this-advice-to-pacers-tyrees-halliburton-ahead-of-game-4-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers Legend Magic Johnson provided this advice to Pacers&#8217; Tyrees Halliburton ahead of Game 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>On Friday evening, the Pacers will hold Game 4 Lightning in the 2025 NBA Finals. After a 116-107 victory in Game 3, Indiana increased 2-1 in the series vs. Oklahoma City. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a crucial game for both teams. OKC is desperately hoping to even a series, and the Pacers want to lead a 3-1 lead. Prior to Game 4, Lakers legend Magic Johnson offered advice to Pacer All-Star PG Tyrees Halliburton. Johnson proceeded to ESPN&#8217;s first take, urging Halliburton to be offensive and offensive.<\/p>\n<h2>The Pacers are hosting Lightning for Game 4 of the 2025 NBA Finals<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Magic Johnson places the gauntlet for Tylese Halliburton. Scoring for this series is important for OKC! \u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBAPlayoffs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#nbaplayoffs<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oTYKIfH55u\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/otykifh55u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Wire Report NBA (@wirereportnba) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WireReportNBA\/status\/1933186173947588668?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Head coach Rick Carlisle has locked Pacer into his run to the NBA Finals. No one predicted Indiana would be in this position. It&#8217;s proof of how his team plays every night. Indiana has a well-balanced roster. However, their star player is three-time All-Star PG Tyrees Halliburton. He is consistently streamed during the Pacers clutch moments during his 2025 playoff runs.<\/p>\n<p>This includes four game winning shots this postseason alone. On Thursday, Lakers legend Magic Johnson took part in ESPN&#8217;s first take and shared his advice to Tyrees Halliburton. The five-time NBA champions hope Haoiburton will be more aggressive in Game 4. Indiana is a well-run team and they are always looking for the best shots possible. It doesn&#8217;t matter who takes it.<\/p>\n<p>Magic Johnson hopes that Tyrese Halliburton will put it on the side of Game 4 and score 25-30 points. The Pacers are a perfect 8-0 when Halliburton scored more than 21 points this postseason. The 25-year-old is a selfish player and is about to get his teammates involved. Lakers&#8217; magic Johnson wants Tyrese Halliburton to be more selfish in Game 4 and take control of the Pacers. Friday night&#8217;s victory marked the cliff to win its first NBA Championship.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday evening, the Pacers will hold Game 4 Lightning in the 2025 NBA Finals. After a 116-107 victory in Game 3, Indiana increased 2-1 in the series vs. Oklahoma City. This is a crucial game for both teams. OKC is desperately hoping to even a series, and the Pacers want to lead a 3-1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[39,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-23324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}