What to know about getting tickets for NBA Finals in Indianapolis
Tickets to see the Indiana Pacers take on the Oklahoma City Thunder at home go on sale later this week.
Tickets to see the Indiana Pacers take on the Oklahoma City Thunder at home go on sale later this week.
Indiana will try to exorcise the demons of its decades-long, tough-luck history and actually win the title when the Pacers take on the Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA Finals.
Since Dec. 13, including regular-season and playoff games, the Thunder have the NBA’s best record. The team with the second-most wins in the league over those last 5-1/2 months? That would be Indiana.
Oklahoma City swept the season series with Indiana 2-0, part of a regular season where the Thunder—who finished with the NBA’s best record—went 29-1 against the Eastern Conference.
Some tickets are already available for each of the games on resale sites with prices starting at $734.
More than 10,000 people claimed free tickets to Thursday night’s watch party, which lacked opportunities for full-throated sports bedlam among Pacers’ faithful.
The Knicks won on their home floor for the first time in the series and prevented the Pacers from earning the second NBA Finals trip in franchise history. Indiana will try again Saturday night at home at Gainbridge Fieldhouse.
Nearly a dozen former Pacers players joined Tyrese Haliburton’s father in the heavily gold-clad crowd. So did WWE Hall of Famer Triple H, rappers Rob 49 and 50 Cent and singers John Mellencamp and Jelly Roll.
A victory Tuesday night in Indianapolis would put the Pacers within one win of reaching the franchise’s second NBA Finals.
Since the Indiana Fever Sports Performance Center was first announced in January, Pacers Sports & Entertainment has been working with architectural firm Populous to make minor updates to the design of the three-story, 108,000-square-foot facility.
Caitlin Clark and the Fever host the WNBA champion New York Liberty on Saturday. On Sunday, the 109th running of the Indianapolis 500 starts not long after noon. And Sunday night, the Indiana Pacers host the New York Knicks in Game 3 of their Eastern Conference Final playoff series.
On Sunday, Indy’s twin passions will combine forces for a rare doubleheader that will send a jolt of adrenaline throughout central Indiana and capture the attention of the nation.
The Knicks led by 14 points with under 3 minutes remaining in regulation, but Aaron Nesmith brought the Pacers back with a flurry of late 3-pointers in Game 1 of the East finals in New York.
Carlisle is back in the Eastern Conference finals not because he stuck to his old-school philosophy, but because he figured out how to adapt to the league’s new ways.
The Indiana Pacers and New York Knicks have faced each other eight times in the postseason and are set to meet again in the Eastern Conference finals beginning Wednesday.
Indiana should have had everyone’s attention long before this postseason began.
Tyrese Haliburton said he expected to be fined for the “dance” he performed after his game-winning shot Tuesday night. Other players have previously drawn fines for what the league has described as an “obscene gesture.”
The Pacers closed the game with an 8-0 run over the final 40 seconds of overtime to eliminate the Bucks in the first round of the playoffs for the second straight season.
The team has been known as the Mad Ants since it was launched in Fort Wayne in 2007 as part of the NBA’s then-named D League, but the rebranding gives it a name Bobby “Slick” Leonard would have admired.
Indiana won its sixth straight and clinched a top-four seed and the home-court advantage in a playoff series for the first time since 2014.