In the midst of their second straight Eastern Conference Finals ... at playoff time as every team that doesn't participate in the play-in round goes a whole work week without games in April ...

Reggie Miller played the primary Garden foil in those days. Tyrese Haliburton fully is leaning into that role now.

that run to the 2024 Eastern Conference Finals? No. There are no fluke runs to the conference finals — qualifying for the NBA playoffs in the first place, eliminating one NBA playoff team ...

When the calendar turned to 2025, the Pacers were just 16-18 and in eighth place in the Eastern Conference ... re different than every other team in the NBA,” said Haliburton, who became ...

Last year when they hit the Eastern Conference ... second-best team and defending champion Celtics not only face a 3-1 series deficit against the Knicks, but now do so without All-NBA wing Jayson ...

Haliburton’s level of hatred from the Garden crowd doesn’t yet match the wrath the New York fans felt for Indiana predecessor Reggie Miller back in the ’90s, but it’s getting closer.

No team has ever ... just 84 points. 2018 NBA Eastern Conference finals Tatum and Brown showed flashes of their potential as they took the Cavaliers to the brink without veterans Kyrie Irving ...