Coach Rick Carlisle keep insisting the Indiana Pacers wanted to do more than just make the playoffs. He believed this young team could win, advance and perhaps even extend its season again.
Indiana Pacers center Myles Turner , right, gets a hug after Game 6 against the Milwaukee Bucks in an NBA basketball first-round playoff series, Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Indianapolis. The Pacers won 120-98. Indiana Pacers forward Pascal Siakam, right, gets a hug from teammate James Johnson after Game 6 against the Milwaukee Bucks in an NBA basketball first-round playoff series, Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Indianapolis. The Pacers won 120-98.
For longtime Pacers fans, the series is sure to rekindle all images from the 1990s when Reggie Miller and Spike Lee became iconic figures in postseason lore. For most of these Pacers, though, the only memories from those battles come from the stories they’ve heard, the highlights they’ve seen or the game tapes they’ve watched.
Yet here they are, the league’s highest-scoring team, ready to begin another series on the road against a higher-seeded foe fully confident it can keep winning. That might not have been what Pacers fans anticipated when Carlisle returned to Indiana in 2021-22 with a roster that seemed poised for a resurgence. But the Pacers opted to break things up in February 2022 with midseason trade that sent All-Star forward Domantas Sabonis to Sacramento for Haliburton.
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