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The NBA Finals are a matchup between two small markets, and Indiana Gov. Mike Braun is making sure he basks in the national spotlight.
It's been tough sledding for Siakam, who is averaging 17 points on 13 shots per game through two Finals contests, having missed 12 of his 20 attempts inside the arc and four of his six launches from beyond it,
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OKC Thunder Wire on MSNBennedict Mathurin says hostile OKC crowd is when he realized he was in NBA FinalsNow it's the Pacers fanbase's turn to be obnoxiously loud. Bennedict Mathurin revealed he thought the OKC crowd was the moment everything hit him that they were in the NBA Finals. An unlikely destination considering how Indiana was viewed before the playoffs started in April.
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OKLAHOMA CITY — Game 1 of the NBA Finals saw an epic fourth-quarter comeback followed by a Tyrese Haliburton game-winning shot that will live forever in Indiana Pacers lore. HALIBURTON WINS GAME 1 FOR THE PACERS. THEY TRAILED BY 15. ANOTHER CRAZY INDIANA COMEBACK 🚨 https://t.co/heI0ELIivW pic.twitter.com/1Qr6XlDbA7
The Indiana Pacers aren't a destination for the NBA's free agents and rarely earn high draft picks. To reach the Finals, they had to buck convention and get creative.
NBA rumors: Pacers willing to go into the luxury tax to keep vital player, but how far will they go?
They say life's two certainties are death and taxes, but for the past 20 years, the Pacers have done a pretty good job of avoiding the latter. They last paid the luxury tax in 2005. The only other teams to have avoided the tax for the two decades that have passed since are the Hornets and Pelicans,
Tyrese Haliburton and the Indiana Pacers couldn't replicate their success from Game 1 of the 2025 NBA Finals, losing to the Oklahoma City Thunder by the final score of 123-107 in Game 2 on Sunday.
The second-year player suffered an ankle injury in Game 6 against the New York Knicks in the Eastern Conference Finals.