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  • ESPN staffMay 31, 2025, 08:07 PM ET

The Indiana Pacers volition person different changeable to punch their summons to the NBA Finals.

The Pacers volition instrumentality location to Gainbridge Fieldhouse for Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the New York Knicks connected Saturday, whom they pb successful the bid 3-2.

Indiana is coming disconnected a Game 5 111-94 nonaccomplishment to New York, wherever Jalen Brunson enactment up a ascendant 32-point performance, followed by Karl-Anthony Towns' 24 points and 13 rebounds to unit a Game 6.

Saturday could perchance crook into a repetition of the 2000 Eastern Conference Finals, wherever the Pacers defeated the Knicks 93-80 successful Game 6 to beforehand to the NBA Finals, wherever they faced the Los Angeles Lakers.

New York collected a triumph implicit Indiana during Game 3 -- the archetypal crippled of the bid successful Indiana -- wherever the Knicks completed a 20-point comeback led by Towns' 24 points and 15 rebounds.

The Knicks volition look to trust connected large performances from their large men -- Towns and Mitchell Robinson -- and the prima powerfulness of Brunson to enactment alive.

Brunson has scored 189 points from drives, the 3rd astir points scored from drives successful a azygous postseason, according to ESPN Research.

Will Indiana beforehand to look the Oklahoma City Thunder for the Larry O'Brien Trophy oregon tin New York unit a Game 7? Follow on with unrecorded updates, highlights and champion moments.

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