Rick Carlisle poured out his heart Monday night before his team was eliminated from the NBA playoffs, when he started reflecting on the impact of Bill Walton, who died Monday at age 71.
It certainly wasn’t easy against the Pacers, who were a perfect 6-0 on their home court before ending the season with two straight home losses. Indiana lost three times in the series despite holding leads or being tied in the final minute.
I’ve had fun watching this group of Pacers play basketball. Their attitudes, drive and spirit are infectious. That appears to be thanks in large part to Haliburton, who seems to inject energy and positivity into everyone around him.
Indiana put up some of the best offensive numbers in NBA history during the regular season by pushing the tempo. The pace is rarely as quick in the playoffs, but don’t tell the Pacers that slow and steady is the only way to win this race.
The Indiana Pacers are the last team with a perfect home record in the playoffs. If they don’t extend that streak Friday night in Game 6 against New York at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, their season will be over.
No other month has captured a greater share of the city’s best memories.
Indiana Pacers coach Rick Carlisle made his comments after the Indiana Pacers’ 130-121 loss to the New York Knicks on Wednesday in New York.
The suspension was handed down one day after Indianapolis police said they were investigating an “NBA player and citizen” altercation that happened during the May 2 playoff game.
A consultant to the Simon family said their interest in the property predates discussion about a soccer stadium.
“Small-market deserve an equal shot,” Indiana Pacers Coach Rick Carlisle said after being ejected for arguing late in his team’s 130-121 Game 2 loss to the Knicks in New York.
Police are probing an “NBA player and citizen” altercation that happened at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on the night Milwaukee Bucks guard Patrick Beverley twice threw a ball at fans in the final minutes of a season-ending loss to the Indiana Pacers.
With the Pacers and Knicks set to renew their playoff rivalry Monday night in the Eastern Conference semifinals, it’s easy to think back to those rough and rugged tussles in the 1990s. But these are two very different teams.
After first-round losses in their last five playoff appearances, the Indiana Pacers rode hot shooting and solid bench play to victory Thursday night. They will play the Knicks in the second round.
The Pacers will enter the postseason with momentum from a dominant regular-season finale. They shot 65% and made 19 of 36 3-pointers against the Hawks on Sunday.
Simon, the longest-tenured team owner in NBA history, will be enshrined into the hall during festivities Aug. 16-17 in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Scot Pollard had grown so accustomed to his weak and failing heart that he didn’t realize how close he was to dying, he said a day after he was released from the hospital and two weeks after he received a heart transplant.
Shots that once were nicknamed home runs because of their rarity and distance are now sprayed like singles.
Clark, the all-time top scorer in NCAA women’s basketball, regularly draws sellout crowds to University of Iowa games, including away contests, sending ticket prices to all-time highs.
When Mel Raines takes over in June from retiring longtime Pacers executive Rick Fuson, she will be the first female chief executive in franchise history and only the third active female top executive for an NBA franchise.
For example, Indiana guard Tyrese Haliburton’s next contract might be worth more than $50 million less than he hoped if he doesn’t play enough games to qualify for a supermax—and at his current pace, he’d come up a bit short.
