[Highlight] Happy New Year r/nba. Here are the top 10 Plays of the 2025 Calendar Year.
That Haliburton run was special
We all got robbed of an all time finals finish.
I still believe, Hali makes that last shot to win 107-105 if his legs stayed together.
Everyone could see the thunder shitting their pants in game 7 before Hali went down. I doubt it comes down to a final shot
weren’t thunder winning before the injury though?
It was tied when he went down. Also pacers were up at half but crumbled in the third
Tied when he went down, Thunder were up 18-16 when he came out.
I mean yeah they let them play on in a 5v4
Too bad!
?XD nothing I said was wrong the game was tied when Haliburton went down
Scott Foster the extender got involved earlier in the series, in game 4.
I will say that series was fucked till the day I die.
Scott foster is a piece of shit but I’m sick of blaming the refs, there were plenty of other chances to close that game out and myles failed to show up and mathurin trolled the last few minutes
Any game that has a referees finger on the scale is a bullshit game, i dont care how it ends or how it looks like a team ‘just wasn’t good enough and deserved to lose’. Miss me with that bs
Nah we didn’t. Shai had a historic season. It was warranted. Too bad!
Just got out of a Thai prison. Is Halliburton the goat?
He was bathed in holy water from head to feet, only his achilles was left untouched by the water.
He was but he died
This is basically a Halliburton highlight reel lol
Hali had one of the best post season runs of all time. Gut wrenching how it ended but I believe he’ll get another shot at gold before all is said and done.
The game 7 injury broke my heart. He was on a heater, would have been one of the clutchiest postseason runs I’ve ever seen, had he won that game.
I think it was 9 points in 7 minutes? Pacers would be champions if Hali didn’t go down
Nah they wouldn’t but it was cute while it lasted!
Shoutout OKC
He won’t
I knew that’s exactly what it was going to be as soon as it included 25 playoffs, and for good reason too
Yeah. The old calendar year trick
That Sharpe dunk is absolutely ridiculous. I forgot how nasty it was.
And I think this year’s one where he goes full horizontal is somehow even better
Yea I keep looking for that one in these lists but seems like the Wizards one seems to generally be preferred. The one over Westbrook might be the only dunk I’ve seen where it looked increasingly filthier with every replay angle, like I was shouting increasingly louder with every replay than when I initially saw it 🤣
https://imgur.com/a/KSftujp
Im a Kentucky fan in college ball so I don’t like him at all but my god that’s one of the nastiest dunks of all time
yeah holy smokes
Comon. The Hali Choke shot was an all timer for how high it bounced of the rim. Who cares if his toe was on the line.
Also the Bulls/Giddy sequence was an all timer with the announcer call. ELIZABETH I’M COMIN BABY
Way better than Thunder Pacers G1.
I mean a game winner in the finals is obviously better than a game tying shot in the conference finals or a regular season game winner with 10 seconds left on the clock. You’re just mad cause you’re a thunder fan haha
You’re just mad cause you’re a thunder fan haha
Lost the battle won the war. Don’t care. Those two highlights AND the Gordon dunk to win it in the playoffs are objectively better.
The winners truly do write the history
objectively
You only won the war because the refs handed you game 4 and Hali went down in the subsequent game 7. Dort was allowed to shove Hali to the ground twice that game with no penalty, including in the final minutes when the pacers were just down 1. Refjob
I don’t mean to be frank, and yes I will acknowledge that Hali went 4⁄4 from 3 before the injury, but…..Vietnam didn’t win the war because of how many battles they won. Lol
Semantics+Scott Foster helped tho and that banner looks pretty 😘
At least you’re acknowledging the refjob, most don’t.
Work on your chirping. You guys got your first chip on a fluke injury and forgot how to act.
Hope you enjoyed it homie you won’t ever get to see it again!
Yeah people said that about the conference finals too lol
The Bulls/Giddy one is an all-timer because Stacey is high on so much cope that “this isn’t the same team”, when the Bulls are in fact very much the same team.
Ohhhh LAWWWD
Yeah it’s a good shot but a regulation star 3 is apparently better than a steal + assist + half court game winner. Nah.
Disagree, the finals will always be way more entertaining than a random bulls lakers regular season play while the lakers play dumber than a jr high team.
Tyrese is really built for the big stage goddamn my once and future king 🥲
Truly was the best of times, worst of times for us lol
I’m glad they included the Bridges defensive plays. Usually these lists are only offensive plays.
Game 2 was an all-time call by Kevin Harlan
its that knicks feel being up several baskets with less than 2m left and seeing that first three go in knowing whats coming
Pacers had a heck of a year. To end on that injury seems unfair.
It happens! It’s sports!
Is shaedon sharp this generations stromile swift? Absolutely ridiculous highlight tape. I’d even put his horizontal table dunk in the top ten too
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He’s definitely better than Stromile Swift, but he’s not at Vince Carter’s level. Not yet, anyway, he has the potential, but still a ways to go.
Man that run by hali last year was magical, miss that dude playing
I knew i was gonna have to watch that stupid ass Haliburton shot again
That shot/bounce is among the most unexpected events in sports history.
this decade’s Kawhi/Embiid shot
Must suck to have a game winner bounce like that……….
Hail’s buzzer beater vs the Knicks should be 1
Ngl as much as I fucked with Hali’s run, Giddy’s play probably should have been #1. That’s the shit that every kid on earth that’s ever held a basketball dreamed of doing.
The #1 play wasn’t even Hali’s best clutch shot from that run lowkey.
At least Giddey gets redemption from having his ankles broken with the half court shot later in the sequence.
honestly that play was just funny because Giddey falls down like a giraffe, but doesn’t belong in the top 10 for the year.
Ngl it’s not even that impressive of a highlight, I’ve seen that happen like 10+ times this year but just because of an actually tweaked his ankle (which he is prone to do) it’s apparently top 10 of the year which is stupid.
“You’re making jokes you don’t know shit about”- Josh Giddey about that comment probably
No disrespect to the others, especially the 2 defensive plays by Mikal Bridges, but this was a Haliburton show.
Ok but that sharpe dunk is one of the best of all time
Hali was on a heater man, across several games and series. sheesh
Damn I miss Tyrese
The Pacers postseason run was special. What could’ve been.
i’d rather be dunked on than have my ankles broken any day of the week sorry Giddey
If that happened to me where I went to high school I would have had to transfer schools
You at least get the respect from ball knowers for the contest if you get dunked on. When your ankles get took and you get injured there is simply no silver lining, your life may be over
I mean it happens like once a game it’s not that impressive
That series win over Boston healed my soul.
I couldn’t rewatch it. I had to fast forward through lol.
Why would you rewatch that lol
Sharpe over Westbrook dunk missing
Man, Bridges really just hates the Celtics
haliburton and the pacers had the craziest playoff run ever bro. like legit cinema, you CANNOT MAKE it up how they cooked us game 1 en route to taking okc to 7. hell of a team, i want my get back
like they were SO not in the picture pre season, mid season, even when the playoffs began nobody expected it. combined with the players calling hali overrated, just a movie storyline legit
Hali was insane. That sharpe dunk is one of the best dunks I’ve seen in years. He really cocked that joint back
The Gordon dunk and the Haliburton high bounce shot to win/tie were my favourite moments by just how insane they were to watch happen.
Kings fans avert your eyes
Tyrese actually made the most positive Reddit post ever with these highlights
Man I forgot how insane that Bulls-Lakers game ended, 9 points in 12 seconds is some voodoo shit
You can tell we have recency bias since all these happened last year.
random question but did Luka plays for the Mavs in 2025? I know he was injured when he got trades but I dont remember if he played in January or not
I think his last game was Christmas Day the previous year; he got hurt that game
Haliburton was clutch af in ‘25
Gosh, that Haliburton run truly was something 😢
How can you not be romantic about basketball?
For me it’s because these plays are few and far between and regular season ball is mostly not intense in any way and hard to watch
I’m not trying to be a boomer I love the playoffs but the regular season is rough if we are being honest with ourselves. Load management and injuries don’t help but even when the stars are playing they don’t look like they really care a lot of the time
I’m still coming off Spurs making an NBA Cup Final and then getting some getback against a quality Knicks side behind 11 three pointers from Champagnie and an efficient 30 point Wemby game. I def share some of your cynicism, and for same reasons, but I’m getting back into it. Spurs being dope again helps
I’m actually a spurs fan too lol
Do NBA players not sprint?
Not in the regular season no
Maybe sprint up from the bench, namsayin’?
Can’t wait to see Hali back out there. That was a magical postseason run by the Pacers
I miss Hali. Can’t wait till he can play again
indy’s playoff run was really fueled by the power of love and friendship. so many disney channel miracles lmao.
Damn I miss Hali
I hope the Pacers finals run is never forgotten man
Why is the quality so ass
A top play is Lakers vs Jazz. Fuck off.
Hali halo haliiiii
Hunter’s crossover one of the best I’ve seen…I’ll never get tired of watching that shit.
Man i had so much hope for the Lakers couple of weeks ago. Now, I cant even watch, it’s so bad.
yo that bulls announcer was TWEAKING on the giddey shot lmfao
Still can’t believe that Celtics/Knicks series. Some all time chokes by the Cs there
Deandre Hunter banished Josh Giddey’s ankle to the shadow realm
JB and JT getting sent to Mikal Jail as highlights of the year is amazing to me
I knew it would be the Haliburton show based on last season playoffs haha.
Hope the guy will manage to get back as strong as he was before the injury.
I totally forgot about that absurd Bulls/Lakers finish
Crazy that I forgot how incredible last years playoffs were. So many tight games coming down to the wire. I wish Hali never went down, his run was inspired.
That Halliburton shot that bounced off the back iron high and dropped through is arguably more epic than the one Kawhi hit against the Sixers. It the basketball Gods way of mocking the Knicks.
noticed that none of these are OKC highlights, but a ton of haliburton, and deservedly so
Lots of OKC highlights in the “top 10 Free Throws of the year”
My incredible bias aside I think Wemby’s block then and-1 three on Lively on opening night is at least worthy of the 10 spot. I was insufferable for a week after
Wow 😊✌️
We will never forget 2025 Calendar year Tyrese Haliburton
How is a buzzer beating Dunk in the playoffs just number 5?
I’m just going to cry, I accept the pain, I’m not going to run from it anymore… I’m just going to cry accept I’ll never heal
Wait, but this morning y’all said he didn’t pay defense.
Haliburton all over that
Hali’s high bounce into the choke sign is the most iconic play for the year.
long live tyrese haliburton
generational run by Pacers. what a fun to watch
Damn, if Haliburton hadn’t been injured and the Pacers had won, it would have gone down as one of the greatest play off runs of all time. He was hitting clutch shots after clutch shots. Such a shame that it ended how it did.
Man just a sad reminder pacers got robbed of a title. Okc did not deserve that lmao
There was only one way that Haliburton season would end.
How nobody else sees it is insane to me lol.
Hally we miss you.
How is Brunson sending Ausar Thompson into orbit and icing the division series with that 3 pointer not in these highlights!?
Mikals 1st steal from Brown is dope but the 2nd one is a 3 way defensive masterclass by OG and Mitchell Robinson too … Mikal got all the credit but the only reason Tatum was forced into that spot is because OG and Mitch also did great work
Still feel devastated for the pacers. That’s the greatest run in playoff history, probably forgotten in the near future.
Fuck you, u/nba fix your league.
What do you want the social media person to do?