The Fever’s playoff run was supposed to be a quick chapter, not a headline. Aliyah Boston clearly didn’t read that script. With 7.4 seconds left, she dropped the go-ahead basket, Lexie Hull ripped the ball away on the inbound, and suddenly, Indiana had stunned the Atlanta Dream 87-85 to crash into the WNBA semifinals. Back home, one of the loudest voices cheering belonged to Tyrese Haliburton, as always.

The Pacers star wasn’t in uniform, but his energy was unmistakable. In a video posted by fiancée Jade Jones, Haliburton was shouting at the TV like a man who’d drawn up the play himself: “Steal! Give it up! Go! Go! Oh, yeah. Hell yeah, Lexi! Step forward! Let’s go! Come on! Yes.” Jade couldn’t resist a caption that landed like a dagger, as she wrote, “what’d I tell yall!!! FEVER IN 3

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