Caitlin Clark says it's a great time to be a basketball fan in Indiana. It's enough to turn Clark, one of the state's biggest stars, into a fan during the NBA playoffs. Clark said before the Indiana Fever's WNBA game at the Atlanta Dream on Thursday night that she was so caught up in the Indiana Pacers' come-from-behind 138-135 overtime win at the New York Knicks on Wednesday night that she took video of her reaction to the signature play -- Tyrese Haliburton's jumper that sent Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals into OT.

The NBA fans on social media blasted Stephen A. Smith for his disrespectful comment towards Tyrese Haliburton.

The New York Knicks had a Game 1 win in the Conference Finals in their hands, and they let it slip through their fingers on Wednesday night. Yet, despite blowing a near 20-point lead in the fourth quarter,

Toppin scored the final points of the game on an epic dunk contest-level slam late in overtime as the Pacers stole Game 1.

Still, the visitors carried that momentum into the extra period and emerged with the win with late baskets from Obi Toppin and Andrew Nembhard. Jalen Brunson and Karl-Anthony Towns also missed threes that could have forced double-overtime as the Pacers completed the stunning win.

Indiana fan Hans Perez was caught in the middle of a flood of New York fans, catching some of the mob mentality. Video shows fans throwing things at Perez, including what looked like a large bag of trash. Perez has now broken his silence on the matter, appearing on The Pat McAfee Show.

The New York Knicks guard spent a lot of time attacking the basket and drawing contact in the first half of Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals.

Nikola Jokic admires the Indiana Pacers. So does LeBron James. So does Caitlin Clark. Will casual NBA fans join them?