Behind the Boxscore: Indiana in Los Angeles

We've heard nervous crowds, right? Chatting among themselves, one-in-four attending know-it-alls telling their four-person group all about the ways in which the visitors could win the game, break the hearts, ruin the night. Every group has that guy, Oklahoma City's Game 1 crowd would seem to
Are the two most-entertaining NBA teams meeting in the league's Finals? Appears as if this is the case. A real rip an' roll series, flying up and down the field, reminds me of the time the 1994 Chargers took on Steve Young and his Niners in the
There are three great Pacer teams in Indiana's NBA history, they are all late risers, they do not go down easily. The mid-1990s teams were very good, not great. The 1998 Pacers ran Chicago to seven games in 1998, they were great, the near-champions who lost the 2000
The only people the Pacers let down on Thursday night were those who already wrote their column. The one sending Indiana to its first NBA Finals in a quarter-century with a win in New York, over the franchise which hasn't hit a Finals since the last century. The