Indiana Pacers are an American professional basketball team based in Indianapolis.
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42 Facts About Indiana Pacers
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The Indiana Pacers compete in the National Basketball Association as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Central Division.
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Indiana Pacers'steams were buoyed by the great play of superstars such as Mel Daniels, George McGinnis, Bob Netolicky, Rick Mount, Freddie Lewis and Roger Brown.
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Additionally, the Indiana Pacers had some financial troubles, which dated back to their waning days in the ABA; they had begun selling off some of their star players in the last ABA season.
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Early Indiana Pacers came out on the short end of two of the most one-sided trades in NBA history.
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The next season, the Indiana Pacers returned to the playoffs in 1992 and met the Celtics for the second year in a row.
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Miller and Rik Smits both made the All-Star team that year, and in the playoffs, the Indiana Pacers breezed past the Cleveland Cavaliers and New York Knicks before falling to the Chicago Bulls in a seven-game Eastern Conference Finals.
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However, the Indiana Pacers dealt Los Angeles their worst playoff defeat up to that time by a margin of 33 points in game five.
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The trade bolstered a team that had been floundering, and the Indiana Pacers managed to return to the playoffs, where they pushed the top-seeded New Jersey Nets to five games before losing Game 5 in double overtime.
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The Indiana Pacers signed Larry Bird as team president, and Bird wasted little time in dismissing coach Isiah Thomas and replacing him with Rick Carlisle.
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O'Neal and Artest made the All-Star team, and Artest was named the NBA's Defensive Player of the Year; the Indiana Pacers swept the Boston Celtics easily in the first round and squeezed by a scrappy Miami Heat team in the conference semifinals.
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The Indiana Pacers signed George to his rookie contract on July 1,2010.
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On January 30,2011, the Indiana Pacers relieved Jim O'Brien of his coaching duties and named assistant coach Frank Vogel interim head coach.
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Indiana Pacers named Vogel their permanent head coach on July 7,2011.
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The Indiana Pacers acquired another key piece in Leandro Barbosa from the Toronto Raptors at the trade deadline, mid-season.
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Pritchard was promoted by the Indiana Pacers after serving as the team's director of player personnel.
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The Indiana Pacers then beat the New York Knicks in six games to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time since 2004 to face the defending champs, the Miami Heat.
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Indiana Pacers then took back the homecourt advantage in the series, winning Game 4 by 3 points in Atlanta.
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The Indiana Pacers got the lead up to nine in the third quarter, but the Hawks came back and had a three-point lead at the end of the quarter.
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On May 3,2014, the Indiana Pacers hosted a Game 7 at home for the first time in franchise history.
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The Indiana Pacers then defeated Washington in 6 games in the semifinals, then a rematch with the second-seeded and defending champion Miami in the Eastern Conference Finals.
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Unfortunately for the Indiana Pacers, they ended up losing the next 3 to the Heat before managing to avoid elimination in Game 5 with a close win over the Heat.
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The Indiana Pacers received heavy criticism for this trade, but it would eventually prove to be the best season of Oladipo's career, with him showing an increase in points, steals, assists, rebounds, free throw percentage, field goal percentage, as well as three-point percentage, which resulted to winning the NBA Most Improved Player Award.
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The Indiana Pacers faced the Cleveland Cavaliers in the first round of the 2018 NBA playoffs for the second year in a row.
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On June 24,2021, the Indiana Pacers announced that they had reached an agreement with former Dallas Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle to become the next head coach following Bjorkgren's departure.
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The Indiana Pacers were very successful in their tenure at the Coliseum, winning three ABA Championships.
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In 1976, the Indiana Pacers became a franchise in the National Basketball Association when the ABA merged with the NBA.
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The first Indiana Pacers basketball game ever held in the arena was a preseason game against the Milwaukee Bucks; attendance was 16,929.
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The final Indiana Pacers game to be played in Market Square Arena was a pre-season exhibition game against the Utah Jazz on October 23,1999.
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The Indiana Pacers wear the usual white home uniform with blue and yellow trim.
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Indiana Pacers unveiled new uniforms and logos to coincide with the NBA's uniform contract with Nike on July 28,2017.
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The Indiana Pacers finished with a league-best 61 wins and were led by Jermaine O'Neal, Ron Artest, and Reggie Miller, and coached by Rick Carlisle.
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Indiana Pacers won the first 3 matchups in the regular season, before being defeated by the Pistons in the final regular-season meeting at the Palace.
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Indiana Pacers narrowly won Game 1, thanks to some late heroics from Miller.
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The Pacers blew an 18-point lead, but still won Game 3 in Indianapolis.
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True to form, the Heat and the Indiana Pacers met in the Conference Finals of the 2013 NBA playoffs on May 22,2013.
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Miami and Indiana would meet for the first time since 2014 in the 2020 playoffs with the Heat sweeping the Pacers in the first round.
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Indiana Pacers hold the draft rights to the following unsigned draft picks who have been playing outside the NBA.
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The most recent head coach of the Indiana Pacers was Frank Vogel, until May 5,2016, when his contract was not renewed after the number 7 seeded Indiana Pacers lost game 7 of the first round of the 2016 NBA playoffs to the number two seeded Toronto Raptors.
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On June 24,2021, the Indiana Pacers re-hired Rick Carlisle for a third stint as the team's head coach.
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