🍿 Pacers troll Knicks after NBA Finals berth

The Indiana Pacers are embracing everything astir advancing to the NBA Finals for the archetypal clip since 2000.

Indiana defeated the New York Knicks successful six games successful the Eastern Conference finals, capping it disconnected with a 125-108 triumph successful Game 6 connected Saturday night. Indiana volition instrumentality connected NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Oklahoma City Thunder successful the NBA Finals, which statesman Thursday (8:30 p.m. ET, ABC).

The Pacers' triumph was 1 for the books, with 7 players scoring successful treble figures, led by Pascal Siakam, who scored 31 points and was named Eastern Conference Finals MVP. Tyrese Haliburton had a ascendant 2nd fractional and finished with 21 points and 13 rebounds.

Haliburton is the 3rd subordinate to grounds implicit 60 assists and 10 oregon less turnovers successful a series, joining Chris Paul and Tim Hardaway, according to ESPN Research. He is the archetypal subordinate to execute the feat successful the league finals.

Indiana's roadworthy to the Finals wasn't casual -- connected and disconnected the court.

So erstwhile the Pacers had the Eastern Conference rubric successful the bag, their societal media squad -- and Haliburton -- didn't clasp backmost connected the Knicks and their shared history, landing a fistful of worthy societal media jabs.

Pacers packed up New York

The Pacers person a storied past of defeating the Knicks successful the playoffs successful the 21st century. They accomplished the feat successful 2000, 2013, 2024, and present 2025.

To showcase their dominance implicit New York successful the playoffs, the Pacers dropped a graphic highlighting their bid wins implicit the Knicks with the Empire State Building and the 73-story One Vanderbilt operation down Indiana's starting five.

The 'Big Apple'

The Pacers besides sent a station featuring the sports pages of assorted newspapers from each crippled successful which they defeated the Knicks, portion besides taking a changeable astatine New York's nickname, "the Big Apple."

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Haliburton is the caller Miller

In Game 5 of the 1994 Eastern Conference finals, Pacers defender Reggie Miller made the infamous choking motion toward manager and Knicks instrumentality Spike Lee astatine Madison Square Garden. Twenty-five years later, Haliburton recreated the motion successful Game 1 aft completing a comeback successful which the Pacers trailed by much than 14 points with 2:51 remaining successful regulation. The Pacers' societal media squad was speedy to instrumentality note.

Haliburton goes astatine Ben Stiller

Actor Ben Stiller is known for his courtside Knicks appearances and for supporting the Knicks connected societal media. In Haliburton's accomplishment to Game 6, helium wore an all-black outfit with a achromatic duffle bag. Stiller responded to the station pregame, saying: "Good happening helium brought his duffle for the formation to NY."

Haliburton's effect aft the game?

"Nah, was to battalion y'all up," referring to the Knicks.

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Haliburton vs. New York

Knicks fans were relentless with their antics during the playoffs -- adjacent throwing garbage bags astatine a Pacers instrumentality and heckling him for wearing a Haliburton jersey connected the streets of New York successful the hours aft the Knicks knocked disconnected the Celtics successful Game 6 of the East semifinals.

Haliburton really invited the accosted instrumentality to be Game 4 successful Indianapolis. He besides kept the receipts and topped disconnected a reel with his highlights from the series.

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