The Pacers are two wins from the team’s first NBA title, with two Finals games left to play in Indianapolis. It is the closest the Pacers are to an NBA title since the team’s previous NBA Finals game in Indianapolis a quarter-century ago, when Indiana struck in the face of a 3-1 deficit to win Game 5 of the 2000 Finals.
And closest – Shaq, Kobe – wasn’t all that close. And that was a long time ago.
There is no thirst to explain the Indiana Pacers’ professional basketball titles in Indiana at the moment, no movement to codify those 1970, 1972 and 1973 ABA title banners as accomplishments
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