NBA playoffs: Pacers vs. Knicks Game 7 updates, score, highlights, analysis: Jalen Brunson out with fractured hand

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• Sun, May 19, 2024 at 11:51 PM GMT+2
• Sun, May 19, 2024 at 11:45 PM GMT+2

  Donte DiVincenzo has hit 8 3s

  Donte Divincenzo has now hit the most 3s in any Game 7 in NBA history.

  The previous record was 7 done 5x:

  Steph Curry (3x), Marcus Morris and Grant Williams.

  — Micah Adams (@MAdamsStatGuy) May 19, 2024

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  Sun, May 19, 2024 at 11:40 PM GMT+2

  Jalen Brunson (fractured left hand) will miss the remainder of the game.

  — NY_KnicksPR (@NY_KnicksPR) May 19, 2024

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  Sun, May 19, 2024 at 11:27 PM GMT+2

  Pacers are doing something pretty special

  With three minutes left to go in the third quarter of Game 7, the Pacers are averaging 2.33 points per play in transition, according to Cleaning the Glass — an absolutely absurd number, so far above the league’s best transition offenses that it might as well be an imaginary number.

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  Sun, May 19, 2024 at 11:13 PM GMT+2

  Knicks starting to get it together

  tring together a few stops, make a few baskets, and the game can start to shift. New York’s ball pressure — both picking up full-court and with its pickup points in the half-court — has been much better to start the third quarter, and the result has been a 12-5 run to get the deficit back within single digits.

• Sun, May 19, 2024 at 11:09 PM GMT+2

  The main reason Indiana is leading by 15 at half? The Pacers had the best shooting half in a playoff game in the last 25 years, per @ESPNStatsInfo, shooting 76 percent to surpass the Spurs in the first half of Game 3 of the 2014 NBA Finals against the Heat. https://t.co/JVZBgvl27u

  — Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) May 19, 2024

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  Sun, May 19, 2024 at 10:59 PM GMT+2

  Not great news for the Knicks

  In these playoffs, the Knicks are 7-0 when winning the rebounding battle, and 0-5 when losing it. At halftime? Indiana’s got a 22-13 edge on the boards to go with its 15-point lead on the scoreboard.

• Sun, May 19, 2024 at 10:51 PM GMT+2

  Pacers rolling at the half

  It’s 70-55 at the half as the Pacers shoot 76.3% (29-of-38) from the field and 66.7% (8-of-12) from 3. The Pacers have also outrebounded the Knicks 22-13. A visibly struggling OG Anunoby played 4:41 for the Knicks in the first quarter and did not return.

• Sun, May 19, 2024 at 10:41 PM GMT+2

  Every time Tyrese Haliburton makes a shot in this game, which is often, he’s having words with a courtside fan seated near the broadcast booth.

  Could become an all-time story if Haliburton keeps this up for another 26 minutes or so.

  — Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) May 19, 2024

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  Sun, May 19, 2024 at 10:39 PM GMT+2

  Jalen Brunson struggling in the first half

  A pair of free throws with 3:12 remaining in the half were Jalen Brunson’s first points in the second quarter. He’s got seven assists without a turnover, but just eight points on 3-for-10 shooting. If the Knicks can’t get this overwhelming Pacers offense under control, they’re going to need much, much more from him to match their firepower.

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  Sun, May 19, 2024 at 10:26 PM GMT+2

  How things are going …

  Andrew Nembhard getting whistled for two travels in a minute might represent the first time the Knicks have gotten multiple stops in quick succession all day.

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  Sun, May 19, 2024 at 10:18 PM GMT+2

  Pacers taking control

  Fantastic on-ball defense there by Ben Sheppard, absolutely refusing to let himself get screened off Donte DiVincenzo, results in a Knicks turnover, another Pacers fast break, and another bucket in the paint — their eighth of the game, less than three minutes into the second quarter. Indiana’s up 18, Tom Thibodeau wants to talk it over, and the Garden, for now, is pin-drop silent.

• Sun, May 19, 2024 at 10:15 PM GMT+2

  Every single Knicks player is moving like John Wick at the end of a movie

  — Harrison Faigen (@hmfaigen) May 19, 2024

• Sun, May 19, 2024 at 10:14 PM GMT+2
• Sun, May 19, 2024 at 10:12 PM GMT+2

  An absolutely torrid quarter of basketball for the Pacers. 16-for-21 from the field, 7-for-9 from 3-point range, 11 assists against one turnover. Pascal Siakam made his first five shots; Tyrese Haliburton scored 14 points in about trhee minutes. Dream start to Game 7 for Indiana.

  — Dan Devine (@YourManDevine) May 19, 2024

• Sun, May 19, 2024 at 10:09 PM GMT+2

  Pacers are on fire

  The Pacers shoot 77.8% (7-of-9) from 3 in the first quarter. Is that good?

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  Sun, May 19, 2024 at 10:05 PM GMT+2

  Tyrese Haliburton means business

  Welcome to Game 7, Tyrese Haliburton. Four straight buckets — including three transition 3-pointers — give him 11 quick points, and push the Pacers’ lead to double figures at 34-22. Indiana has 34 points on 17 possessions — absolutely scorching offense to start Game 7.

• Sun, May 19, 2024 at 10:02 PM GMT+2
• Sun, May 19, 2024 at 10:01 PM GMT+2

  Foul on Haliburton overturned!

• Sun, May 19, 2024 at 9:58 PM GMT+2

  The best part of the playoffs is that teams that had no issue with each other previously end up hating each other by Game 7. And then sometimes that carries over to make a rivalry that lasts a while.

  (I know Knicks-Pacers have history, but these versions of the teams don’t.)

  — Keith Smith (@KeithSmithNBA) May 19, 2024