Pacers legend Reggie Miller appears to take sides in John Mellencamp-Pat McAfee beef

After John Mellencamp bashed Pat McAfee for his explicit hype-up code for Indiana Pacers fans, a franchise fable appeared to instrumentality a side.

McAfee pumped up Pacers fans successful the last minutes of Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals Tuesday, but it near Mellencamp "embarrassed."

The erstwhile Indianapolis Colts punter called retired personage Knicks fans Timothée Chalamet, Spike Lee and Ben Stiller and told Pacers fans to "turn this s--- up" and "send these sons of b------ backmost to New York with their ears ringing."

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Former Indiana Pacers defender Reggie Miller earlier Game 3 of the 2025 Eastern Conference finals. (Trevor Ruszkowsk/Imagn Images)

Mellencamp mentioned that "somebody" utilized "poor sportsmanship." He did not specifically notation McAfee by name, but it wasn't precisely a secret, and McAfee replied connected X that "I americium somebody."

Before calling Game 5 Thursday, Pacers fable Reggie Miller posted a video montage of him greeting Mellencamp that included Mellencamp's deed song, "Jack & Diane."

"Only existent Hoosiers cognize what this antheral means to Indiana. Honored to telephone [Mellencamp] a existent friend," Miller wrote connected Instagram. "From dinners, video shoots, circuit autobus jumping, to singing connected stage, I’ve done it each with him. Nothing but unconditional [love] for him and his family, convey you for ever being determination for immoderate of those precocious nighttime calls to vent astir hoops backmost successful the day.. #JackAndDiane."

John Mellencamp and Pat McAfee (Getty Images; Imagn)

The Pacers won Game 4 aft McAfee took the mic to instrumentality a commanding 3-1 bid lead, but the bid is headed backmost to Indiana aft the Knicks wiped the floor with the Pacers successful Game 5.

Stiller challenged McAfee to be Game 5 astatine New York's Madison Square Garden Thursday, but McAfee said helium was "not paying $70,000 for a ticket."

Game 6 volition beryllium played Saturday night. With a win, it volition beryllium the Pacers' archetypal travel to the NBA Finals since 2000, erstwhile they besides bushed the Knicks successful the Eastern Conference finals.

If the Knicks negociate to triumph the adjacent two, it'll beryllium their archetypal Finals quality since 1999, erstwhile they bushed the Pacers to get there.

Reggie Miller and Spike Lee speech earlier a crippled betwixt the Golden State Warriors and the New York Knicks Dec. 14, 2021, astatine Madison Square Garden successful New York, N.Y. (Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images)

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The victor of the bid volition instrumentality connected the Oklahoma City Thunder, who volition beryllium playing for a title for the archetypal clip since 2012.

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