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The unsinkable Pacers don’t need the lead. They just need the last word

Tyrese Haliburton of the Indiana Pacers is defended by Luguentz Dort of the Oklahoma City Thunder during the second quarter of Thursday’s Game 1 of the NBA finals.Photograph: William Purnell/Getty Images This is why you play the games, as the old adage goes. In recent years, the later rounds of the NBA playoffs – and

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Pacers vs. Thunder: History repeats, and OKC stands stunned after letting Finals opener slip away

OKLAHOMA CITY — The lead wasn’t big enough. The Thunder had opened the 2025 NBA Finals with a borderline-unbelievable half of defensive basketball. They’d forced the visiting Pacers into a whopping 19 turnovers of all shapes and sizes — travels in the open floor, kickouts airmailed into the backcourt, thread-the-needle bounce passes picked off, bobbled

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DeMarcus Cousins: As great as Nikola Jokic is, you can’t sell him. You can’t market him because he’s not this great personality

DeMarcus Cousins: You can’t be a superstar if you’re only known in the States. I don’t consider that a superstar. The league is bigger than that—it’s a global brand. Once you start having that global impact, you go into that superstar status. I think it’s a combination of all those things. Charisma, as well. I

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Indiana’s basketball moment: Pacers’ NBA Finals run and Caitlin Clark mania

INDIANAPOLIS — The scene spoke to this team’s hard luck history, all the way back to the night it nearly died. The Indiana Pacers were on the verge of collapse in July 1977, broke and bereft of hope, desperate enough to host a 16-hour telethon on local TV in hopes of selling a preposterous number

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