Pacers' Aaron Nesmith emulates Reggie Miller vs. Knicks in MSG 4th-quarter comeback

The Indiana Pacers had seen this movie before. An insurmountable deficit was on the scoreboard at Madison Square Garden against the Knicks in the playoffs.

Correction: A seemingly insurmountable deficit.

And just like Reggie Miller nearly three decades ago, the Pacers used a sharpshooter (Aaron Nesmith) to stun the Knicks again.

Miller's spurt was quick, eight points in almost no time at all.

Nesmith had about three minutes to work with, but he scored even more.

The Pacers trailed 116-102 with 3:14 left.

Tyrese Haliburton mixed one 3-pointer and the eventual game-tying buzzer beater in to the regulation-ending 21-7 run.

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Otherwise, it was all Nesmith.

He attempted six 3-pointers in three minutes. He made all six.

His last came with 22 seconds left to pull the Pacers within two, and missed foul shots eventually allowed Haliburton to hit his crazy shot to force overtime.

Nesmith is not yet anywhere near the caliber of a legend like Miller, who was courtside broadcasting the game for TNT.

Nesmith averaged 12 points per game each of the past two seasons.

He is a deadeye shooter, though, and knocked down a ridiculous 43.1 percent of his 3s during the regular season.

The MSG lights apparently allow Pacers shooters to shine even brighter in impossible situations.

Nesmith's run didn't guarantee a win, since the eventual outcome of the fourth quarter was simply overtime.

But it was epic in a longer-lasting period of the game than Miller's, and it could have a cool legacy if the Pacers eventually advance from these Eastern Conference Finals into the NBA Finals.

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