Pacers Down Knicks in Game 6, Clinch NBA Finals Appearance

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00:00We expected the New York Knicks to hold serve on their home floor in game number five.

00:04Keep this series and their season afloat, staving off elimination.

00:09But Indiana understood they would have another home game to win it on their own home floor.

00:14To advance the NBA Finals for the first time in two and a half decades.

00:19And that's exactly what the Pacers accomplished.

00:21A 125-108 win on Saturday night in game number six.

00:26Indiana covers as a three and a half point home favorite.

00:30A total of 222 and a half.

00:32Even in an elimination game, skies to the over.

00:35The Pacers are parting like it's 2000 into the NBA Finals for the first time in 25 years.

00:42And actually should be a pretty good Finals too.

00:44We'll get to some of the numbers, which let us know that you probably won't have a competitive Finals.

00:48But I don't know if that's the case here.

00:50But the one thing we do know is the Indiana Pacers are the truth, man.

00:53You get through that.

00:53Look, it's, you know, entering into the playoffs.

00:56You say, well, Pacers.

00:57It's like, I don't, again, getting back to the point where nobody was talking about the Pacers.

01:01I think they can make a run or win a championship here.

01:03Because why?

01:04It was the Boston Celtics.

01:06Yeah, we thought they would be in the Eastern Conference Finals.

01:08Taking on who?

01:08The Cleveland Cavaliers.

01:10Neither one of those teams made it.

01:11Because the New York Knicks knocked out the Celtics and the Pacers easily dispatched of the Cleveland Cavaliers.

01:15But here we are in a six-game win for the Pacers.

01:18And you say, like, boy, what can they do in the Finals?

01:21They were the better team than the Knicks.

01:22It wasn't a surprise to Ben and Donnie here on the early line by saying, well, who's going to win this series?

01:26We thought it was going to be the Pacers.

01:27Just didn't think it would be in a game five.

01:29And it wasn't because you had a home court advantage for the Knicks.

01:32We knew that they would throw the kitchen sink.

01:34But game number six, you were lying in wait, understanding that you could not force a game seven and go there, win it.

01:40Say, you know what, Pacers?

01:41Handle your business in game number seven.

01:42It felt like games five and six, Ben, for me, were paint by numbers.

01:46Love the Knicks in game number five.

01:48Love the Pacers in game number six.

01:50And it played out that way.