With references to Spike Lee, Reggie Miller and more, Indiana's celebratory posts match the team's dominance on the hardwood.
's 26 points, the Pacers shot 67.1%, the highest field goal percentage in any playoff game in NBA history. With six players reaching double digits in scoring, Indiana became the first team to have five players with more than 15 points in a Game 7 since 1987.The storied playoff history between these two teams combined with the Game 7 atmosphere in New York raised the stakes -- and the postgame trolling on social media upheld that standard.
The Academy Award-winning director is a longtime Knicks fan and even reunited with Pacers legend Reggie Miller ahead of Game 2. After the Pacers won their Game 5 matchup in the 1994 Eastern Conference finals, New York newspapers blamed Lee for taunting Miller. Haliburton capped off the trolling by wearing a hoodie with a photo of Miller's choke gesture celebration from the 1994 Knicks-Pacers series to the postgame news conference.
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