The Pacers took back control of their first-round series against the Cleveland Cavaliers Friday night by edging the LeBron & Co. 92-90.
Bojan Bogdanovic turned in a playoff career high 30 points on 11 of 15 shooting, including seven 3-pointers. Those seven makes matches a franchise playoff record, one of three players to do it. Most recently, Paul George hit seven on May 11, 2014 …
All even at one game apiece, the Pacers and Cavaliers first-round series shifts to Indianapolis for games three and four.
Game 3 is on Friday at 7:00 pm (FSI, ESPN), and Game 4 is a late one, on Sunday tipping after 8:30 pm (FSI, TNT).
Here are six takeaways from the first two games in Cleveland.
Pacers Are The Better TeamThis is a fair …
Here are my running thoughts from the Pacers’ 100-97 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers Wednesday night at Quicken Loans Arena.
It was game 2 of their best-of-seven first-round series. The series is tied, 1-1.
We knew there would be changes from the Cavaliers, including their starting lineup. Coach Ty Lue opted to start veterans JR Smith and Kyle Korver over Rodney Hood and Jeff Green.…
After games, Victor Oladipo always checks his phones. He has a routine he goes through — getting wrapped in ice bags, talking to the media, firing up his Bose bluetooth speaker, singing, and then hitting the showers.
At the Pacers’ final road game of the regular season in Charlotte, he didn’t need a text from his former coach … because Tom Crean was in the …
The Pacers’ belief in their talents, belief in each other is nothing new.
They knew.
It goes all the way back to September, before the season when they first started hanging around one another, on and off the court. There were six players returning, just two starters, from last year’s 42-40 team that was swept in the first round by Cleveland. It wasn’t a bad …
The Pacers had just completed practice Friday, two days before their opening game of the NBA Playoffs against the Cleveland Cavaliers. The team was in good spirits, and Victor Oladipo is always in a talkative mood.
As he made his way to the backdrop, where he answers questions from the media, he first fielded one from the good-humored assistant coach Bill Bayno. But, it had …
It took some time — and wins — for this Indiana Pacers team to convince fans that it was for real, but once they got a look, fans fell for them.
FOX Sports Indiana’s ratings of Pacers games for the 2017-18 regular season garnered an average household rating of 3.5, up 18 percent from the previous season, according to Nielsen. That equates to a typical …
Here are my running thoughts from the Pacers’ 98-80 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers Sunday afternoon at Quicken Loans Arena.
It was game 1 of their best-of-seven first-round series.
LeBron-led teams enter this series with 21 consecutive first-round victories. They’re 48-7 all-time. His last loss was all the way back in 2012, to the New York Knicks when already leading 3-0. The Pacers wore their…