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Sports Illustrated June 7, 2000 |
Larry Legend After distinguishing himself as one of the league's alltime great players, Larry Bird returns to the NBA Finals on June 7 as head coach of the Indiana Pacers....  |
Sports Central February 24, 2014 Ross Lancaster |
Five Games to Watch Down the Stretch Here are five basketball games to watch, in no particular order, which will help define the NBA playoff picture.  |
Sports Central May 22, 2013 Robert Campbell |
Sir Lance Despite all of his talent, Lance Stephenson of the Indiana Pacers has always found a way to draw criticism.  |
Sports Central May 10, 2012 Paul Foeller |
Pace Yourself The Indiana Pacers are going to give the Miami Heat all they can handle in a best of seven series that promises to at least come within a stone's throw of a Game 7.  |
Sports Central May 30, 2013 Kevin Beane |
Schadenfreude and the NBA Eastern Finals I think the Pacers just might be the team to give Cleveland fans a modicum of succor just like Dallas did two seasons ago, so I'm glued to the television every game.  |
Sports Central January 23, 2013 Ross Lancaster |
Can Bulls Contend For the East? Here are the Chicago Bulls through 40 games of the season at press time with a 24-16 record, good enough for fifth place in the conference and a mere three games behind Miami.  |
AskMen.com June 1, 2013 Jon Finkel |
The Man Behind The Success Of The Pacers' Power Game As the head strength and conditioning coach for the Indiana Pacers, Shawn Windle is the man responsible for putting the mettle and the muscle behind coach Frank Vogel's smash-mouth brand of basketball.  |
Sports Central May 16, 2011 Vito Curcuru |
Keys to the NBA Conference Finals The 2011 NBA conference finals are underway and this final four gives us youth, age, and plenty of superstar power.  |
Sports Illustrated June 6, 2000 Marty Burns and John Donovan |
Who will win the 2000 NBA Finals? Lakers or Pacers?  |
Sports Central March 23, 2004 Derek Daggett |
The East Will Rise Again Playoff time is rapidly approaching, and as usual, most people are looking ahead to the NBA Finals  |
Sports Central June 4, 2014 Ross Lancaster |
NBA Finals Are the Spurs' For the Taking The 2014 NBA Finals will feature the first rematch of the previous year's championship series since the Bulls and Jazz met in 1998.  |
Sports Illustrated May 23, 2000 |
Marty Burns' Breakdown: Pacers-Nicks  |
Sports Central October 19, 2009 Scott Shepherd |
82 Things to Watch For This NBA Season (Pt. 3) Here's a breakdown the former Eastern Conference and a prediction of how each team will fare as they begin a new decade of basketball.  |
Sports Central January 27, 2004 M. Edward Guest |
Chasing the Elusive Ring Ever since Larry Brown came to town about a decade ago, the Indiana Pacers have played some of the most consistent basketball in the NBA; they made the Eastern Conference Finals in 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, and 2000. Unfortunately, they lost the first four, three of them in seven games.  |
Sports Central July 24, 2013 Andrew Jones |
14 Teams to Watch in 2013-14 The NBA season is still a ways away, but the offseason has been an interesting one. Here are 14 teams to watch in the upcoming season, some for obvious reasons ... others for not so obvious reasons.  |
Sports Illustrated January 9, 2001 Ian Thomsen |
Changes At the Top The rebuilt Pacers have yet to hit their stride...  |
Sports Illustrated October 7, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Setting the Pace Indiana hopes its rebuilding phase is over. While other franchises trying to rebuild have had to live amid rubble for years, the Pacers' renovation has been fairly painless.  |
Sports Central December 9, 2015 Ross Lancaster |
Has the Tide Turned to the NBA's East? At the quarter-pole of the season after Monday's games, the East holds a two-game head-to-head advantage against the West.  |
Sports Central January 2, 2012 Ross Lancaster |
The Evolution of an NBA Fan Despite all the warts and sheer incompetency associated with upper levels of NBA leadership, many factors on the court have converged to make the regular season one worth watching, even if you normally ignore much of the period until the playoffs.  |
Sports Central March 14, 2011 Vito Curcuru |
Eastern Conference Race is Heating Up The NBA's Eastern Conference is garnerning a lot of attention and not just due to East Coast bias and Carmelo Anthony's presence in NYC. Some teams are imploding, while others are rising, and there are actual races for playoff spots.  |
Sports Central April 15, 2004 Mason Williams |
2004 NBA Playoffs Preview It's time for the NBA playoffs to take center stage.  |
Sports Central May 19, 2005 Andre Watson |
Pacers' Rick Carlisle Got Robbed There are no other ways to explain the ridiculous notion that Phoenix Suns coach Mike D'Antoni was the best coach in the NBA this season. It's false, wrong, stupid, and idiotic to think scoring and records should be the sole barometer that measures the effectiveness of a coach in any sport, let alone the NBA.  |
Sports Central July 9, 2014 Jonathan Lowe |
What's the Scenario? I'm feeling dizzy at this point. It's due to the whirling dervish of speculation surrounding the current round of NBA free agency.  |
Sports Central October 12, 2010 Bob Ekstrom |
NBA East Will Be Battle of Big Threes NBA general managers got a bit ahead of themselves last week when they penciled in the Los Angeles Lakers for a three-peat, but they did nail half the NBA Finals matchup in the process.  |
Sports Central June 25, 2012 Ross Lancaster |
Falling Down Just to Stand Up Over the last 20 years or so in the NBA, there's a fascinating trend that has developed: rarely do the league's biggest stars immediately find championship success on their first trip to the Finals or a grand, high-pressure stage.  |
Sports Central April 16, 2009 Scott Shepherd |
NBA Eastern Conference Playoff Preview Breaking down the Eastern Conference in round one of the playoffs.  |
Sports Central March 11, 2004 Timothy Hammill |
Playoff Predictions For the East Indiana vs. Cleveland... New Orleans vs. Milwaukee... etc.  |
Sports Central January 5, 2009 Scott Shepherd |
In the Rotation: NBA Week 10 A look at the five biggest breakout stars of the season, an upcoming game between the Celtics and Cavaliers and LeBron James' new commercials.  |
Sports Central May 29, 2004 M. Edward Guest |
Pistons, Lakers to Renew Rivalry? Four teams remain in the NBA Playoffs, and there is little doubt as to which contest this author would like to see in the final round: Lakers vs. Pistons.  |
Sports Central October 27, 2008 Scott Shepherd |
82 Things to Watch For This NBA Season (Pt. 5) The "82 things to watch for this NBA season" countdown concludes with a look at how the Eastern Conference stacks up in reverse order of projected finish.  |
Sports Central March 27, 2006 Joe Pietaro |
The Other Side of the River The New Jersey Nets have played second banana to the New York Knicks.  |
Sports Central September 28, 2009 Scott Shepherd |
SC's NBA All-Decade Team (Pt. 1) Here's a look back at the previous decade of NBA basketball.  |
Sports Illustrated June 6, 2000 |
Marty Burns' Breakdown NBA Finals matchups  |
Sports Central November 15, 2005 Dave Golokhov |
Contenders and Pretenders in the NBA The 2005-06 NBA season is predictable. There are only five or six teams who are a real threat to win the championship.  |
Sports Illustrated April 13, 2001 Phil Taylor |
L.A. stories still just rumors The rumors about Kobe Bryant being traded -- to Toronto, to Vancouver, to Orlando, to just about every team in the league -- are multiplying, but despite all the speculation, I don't think Kobe's going anywhere, at least not this summer...  |
Sports Central May 3, 2012 Gary Flick |
X-ceptional This year's NBA playoffs have already given us epic comebacks, suspensions, MVP season-ending injuries, confrontations with refs, confrontations with fire extinguishers, and (my personal favorite) superstar game winners ... and no team has played more than two games.  |
Sports Central May 30, 2011 Bill Hazell |
Don't Get Your Hopes Up, Mavs Fans Going into the 2011 NBA Finals, we should all be clear on two things: who the favorite is, and who the sentimental favorite is.  |
Sports Central August 9, 2005 Chris Speckman |
NBA Summertime Scorecard Three NBA teams that got better over the past three months -- and three that got worse.  |
Sports Central November 17, 2008 Scott Shepherd |
In the Rotation: NBA Week 3 This week's "starting five" is comprised of Olympians that have hit the ground running this NBA season.  |
Sports Illustrated January 22, 2002 Jack McCallum |
Conference conundrum The gap between teams in the East and West is huge in the NBA...  |
Sports Central August 26, 2013 Jonathan Lowe |
School's in Session Over half of the changes in NBA coaching came from almost half of the teams that made the playoffs. With so many new faces in new places, there are bound to be a few that NBA fans don't readily recognize.  |
Sports Central April 28, 2008 Scott Shepherd |
Top 10 Active NBA Players Without a Title Here is a list of the top 10 active players without an NBA title.  |
Sports Central June 6, 2005 Chris Speckman |
NBA Playoffs: Score More, Bore Less For the first time in a while, the NBA playoffs have been memorable and exciting.  |
Sports Central May 15, 2013 Ross Lancaster |
Grizzlies Roaring to New Heights The NBA playoffs, versus the postseason in any other major American sport, and especially those with single-elimination formats, are thought to be the most chalk-stained and uncompelling by many.  |
Sports Central January 18, 2010 Scott Shepherd |
Revisiting Preseason Predictions You know that at this time of year, there are only two things on my mind: NBA basketball and awards shows.  |
Sports Central October 13, 2008 Scott Shepherd |
82 Things to Watch For this NBA Season (Pt. 3) Here's a look at the preseason favorites to win some of the NBA's most prestigious awards.  |
Sports Central March 17, 2010 Bill Hazell |
How "Winning Time" Stole My Heart Nothing in at least the past eight years in the NBA has made me feel as alive again as what was re-lived in this documentary.  |
Sports Central April 22, 2013 Robert Campbell |
Welcome to the NBA Playoffs Welcome to the NBA playoffs. The tedious 82-game schedule has culminated into a 16-team race, a two-month battle to determine a champion.  |
Sports Central March 21, 2005 Joseph Sammour |
The NBA's Elite Eight We're going to be focusing on the second round of the NBA playoffs, which will involve the NBA's answer to the Elite Eight. For each team, I'll explain who they will beat in the first round, and how much further they can go.  |
Sports Central May 29, 2013 Matt Thomas |
It's Official, NBA Playoffs Are a Mess Throughout these playoffs, stars-in-the-making have emerged and established superstars have wilted under pressure with similar frequency. Big-name players have fallen to major injury.  |