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Pacers use second half comeback to send the Heat an early warning
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Roy Hibbert threw all the inside body jabs on Tuesday night. Paul George finished it off with the knockout blow.
Together, the Pacers’ devastating one-two scoring punch did it again to the champs.
Hibbert finished with 24 points, George made two big 3-pointers during a 15-point second half scoring spree and Indiana rallied from a seven-point halftime deficit to take Round 1 against Miami 90-84.
“It was fun, a real intense game,” George said. “Both teams were playing at a high level. You could see an urgency to win this game tonight.”
While Indiana extended its franchise-record home start to a perfect 10-0 and took a three-game advantage over Miami in the early chase for home-court advantage, this was no ordinary regular season game.
The hometown fans were already in post-season form, booing loudly at the officials, chanting “He’s a flopper” on some contestable foul calls and eventually serenading Miami players with those familiar chants of “Beat the Heat.”
But the Pacers (19-3) also understood this was only the start of a season-long quest that could pit the two best teams in the East in the conference finals for a second straight year.
In other games, it was: Thunder 101, Hawks 92; Spurs 116, Raptors 103; Cavaliers 109, Knicks 94; Timberwolves 121, Pistons 94; Nets 104, Celtics 96; Bucks 78, Bulls 74; and Suns 114, Lakers 108.
Kevin Durant scored a game-high 30 points as the Oklahoma City Thunder pulled away from Atlanta to win their third consecutive game.
Paul Millsap finished with 23 points to lead the Hawks (11-11) but they were undone when the Thunder (16-4) embarked on a 13-0 run in the fourth quarter.
Manu Ginobili came off the bench to score 16 points while adding nine assists as the San Antonio Spurs defeated the Toronto Raptors.
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