Joe Vardon
Senior NBA Writer at The Athletic
Covers NBA for @TheAthletic. The white line’s getting longer and the saddle’s getting colder. [email protected]
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4 days ago |
nytimes.com | Joe Vardon
INDIANAPOLIS - The Indiana Pacers went to Paris this season. The French sports media are a reverent bunch, so it would be wrong to say that the Pacers were treated like the Washington Generals, Reggie Strickland (I admit I had to look him up, but he lost 276 out of 363 career boxing matches, so you can see where this is headed) or Prairie View A&M.
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6 days ago |
nytimes.com | Joe Vardon
INDIANAPOLIS - The Indiana Pacers came in as the returning Eastern Conference finalist most had forgotten about. All of New York, and the basketball world, remembers them now. The Pacers won Game 6 over the Knicks, 125-108, on Saturday to clinch their second NBA Finals berth and a matchup against the league's best regular-season team, with MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander on its side, the Oklahoma City Thunder. Game 1 in Oklahoma City is at 8:30 p.m. Eastern on Thursday.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Joe Vardon
NEW YORK - Tyrese Haliburton and Andrew Nembhard share a former coach who was concerned about Game 5 for the Indiana Pacers. Haliburton played the last two summers for USA Basketball, which had the all-star coaching staff of Steve Kerr, Erik Spoelstra, Tyronn Lue and Mark Few - who was Nembhard's coach in college at Gonzaga.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Joe Vardon
INDIANAPOLIS - Tyrese Haliburton's best game of the 2025 playoffs, one of the best of his career, just happened to come on the night his dad was back in the building. The Pacers lifted their temporary ban on Haliburton's father, John, attending games, and his son dominated with a 32-point triple-double in the Pacers' 130-121 win over the New York Knicks in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Joe Vardon |Zach Powell
Tyrese Haliburton's father, John, will be allowed to attend Indiana Pacers home games ahead of Tuesday's Game 4 against the New York Knicks, a team source said. John will watch the game in a suite at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, according to the source. He missed the entirety of the Pacers' second-round playoff series against the Cleveland Cavaliers following an on-court confrontation with Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo in Game 5 of the first round.
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What we know about Donovan Mitchell’s injury situation after a disaster Game 4 for him and the rest of the Cavaliers, @TheAthleticNBA https://t.co/1gwgb3t0eC
Cavs’ Donovan Mitchell to undergo MRI on Monday, says he ‘will be good’ for Game 5 vs. Pacers — but calf strains are dangerous, @TheAthleticNBA https://t.co/1gwgb3t0eC
Other than call timeout to get Darius Garland and Evan Mobley out of this game, there is nothing else for Cleveland to do tonight
