Usually, it’d be sacrilege to root for the Pacers — particularly an Indiana crew that eradicated the Knicks in consecutive years.
However these circumstances compelled treachery from New York to each metropolis exterior of a small pocket within the southwest. No person anticipated the Pacers to get to the NBA Finals, not to mention attain Recreation 7. They had been Cinderellas, after which they had been flirting with a brand new Disney film script after Tyrese Haliburton’s Achilles exploded in Sunday evening’s first half.
However their magic ran out within the second half of the Thunder’s crowning victory, 103-91. The Pacers hung round longer than most thought doable, taking a one-point lead into the break and driving, appropriately, their bulldog backup, TJ McConnell, in a spirited third quarter.
McConnell is the embodiment of an underdog. He’s small, he went undrafted, he has by no means even dunked within the NBA. And in Recreation 7 of the Finals, McConnell stepped into Haliburton’s spot and dropped all of his 16 factors within the third quarter.
