NBA Playoffs, Cleveland Cavaliers and Indiana Pacers
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Indiana has reached the Eastern Conference Finals for consecutive years. That's not lucky, this team is for real.
With less than 30 seconds left in regulation, Gordon hit a 3 to tie the Denver Nuggets with the Oklahoma Thunder and send Game 3 into OT.
The Indiana Pacers emphatically pushed the top-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers to the brink of playoff elimination with a dominant 129-109 win to take a 3-1 series lead.
The second round of the 2025 NBA playoffs is here, and our NBA insiders have you covered for every game of the Eastern and Western Conference semifinals. The No. 4 seed Indiana Pacers kicked off the East semis by taking a 2-0 lead over the No.
129 points: It's the third-most points scored in a playoff game by the Pacers in the NBA playoffs. They scored 130 vs. the Knicks last season and vs. Boston in 1991. The franchise record is 150 vs. the Oakland Oaks in 1969.
1. “Cleveland played desperate,” Pacers coach Rick Carlisle said in Friday’s postgame press conference. “They played the way they needed to play. We have to be ready to fight from the beginning of the game. When you’re down 11-0 (to start the game), well, you’re not there … ”
The Indiana Pacers continued what has been an absolutely breathtaking start to the second round of the NBA playoffs with an improbable 120-119 Game 2 win over the top-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday,