This was the eighth season for Carlisle with the Pacers, and he has compiled a 339-318 record during that time and has completely rebuilt this team in his image. He now has a playoff record of 41 ...

Carlisle, of course, played for Virginia back in the 1980s, helping lead the Cavaliers to the Final Four in 1984. He averaged 11.1 points and 2.9 assists per game for the Cavaliers before heading ...

Indiana Pacers head coach Rick Carlisle speaks prior to Game 4 of the NBA Finals basketball series against the Oklahoma City Thunder, Friday, June 13, 2025, in Indianapolis.

Indiana Pacers head coach Rick Carlisle speaks prior to Game 4 of the NBA Finals basketball series against the Oklahoma City Thunder, Friday, June 13, 2025, in Indianapolis.

Indiana Pacers head coach Rick Carlisle speaks prior to Game 4 of the NBA Finals basketball series against the Oklahoma City Thunder, Friday, June 13, 2025, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy) ...

When the Indiana Pacers overcame a 15-point deficit in the fourth quarter to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder, it was the first time an NBA Finals team had done that in 14 years. Rick Carlisle was ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — The drive between the little upstate New York towns of Lisbon and Ogdensburg, by Rick Carlisle’s recollection, would take about eight minutes. In that part of the world, in the ...

Carlisle’s Pacers were the last team Thibodeau coached against while directing the Knicks, with Indiana eliminating New York in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals in Indianapolis.

Instead, Carlisle returned to the Indiana Pacers, where he'd coached from 2003-07, an unlucky tenure where one of the NBA's best rosters was destroyed by the fallout from the "Malice in the Palace ...

This is no time to be popping champagne,” Carlisle, a 1984 UVA alum, told reporters after the Pacers’ Game 6 win. His Dallas Mavericks won the NBA title in 2011.