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Seems unsustainable. He's going to have to get to the rim at some point.
Rory McIlroy is the first player in Masters history to start his round with six consecutive threes. #themasters
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Wild to see SportsCenter post a video of Dame doing an interview with TNT from the bubble when he was with the Blazers, but edit it to be a Bucks jersey and ESPN mic. A little alarming, honestly.
DAME DIDN'T COME TO MILWAUKEE TO WASTE HIS TIME 🗣️
Community note
This interview originally took place during the 2020 NBA season, when Lillard was a member of the Portland Trail Blazers
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Bennedict Mathurin just said mid-media session that he hopes to wrap it up soon so he can go home and bake some cookies.
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I asked Obi Toppin about what the moment of seeing Haliburton go down was like.
“I felt like that was my fault too. Passed the ball to him and… (long pause) as soon as he went down, that shit hurt. I ain’t gonna lie. I was thinking about that the whole game.”
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Jackson, a young fan sitting near the white team bench, just jokingly asked if he could check in. So the Pacers let him. And he scored, wearing Buddy Hield’s jersey.
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Caitlin Clark just threw a pass so nice that Tyrese Haliburton stood up and put his hands on his head.
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“Even dating a pretty girl gets boring after a while if she can’t guard anybody,” - Rick Carlisle, out of context, about his team.
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Tyrese Haliburton jokingly blaming Steph Curry for his off night.
“He convinced me to try out pregame naps, because I told him I don't nap. And he told me to try it out and text him after the game… So he'll be getting a text from me shortly. No more pregame naps for Tyrese.”
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“Nahhhh,” Aaron Nesmith said postgame when someone showed him this photo. “I haven’t seen that, I don’t know what you want me to say about it. First time I’ve seen it. Might be a new thing. It worked today, so might have to do it again for Game 7.”
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Lexie Hull doesn’t know where her 3-point contest invite came from specifically. She was told she was doing it and hadn’t really practiced, but she’s ready:
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"I've never had a coach that poured into me, respectfully, like Steph has," Kelsey Mitchell says. "For the first time in my career, I feel like I have smoeone that values what I bring as a player and person."
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Hopped on LinkedIn this morning and saw Cody Zeller as a “person you may know” since we both went to IU. I think it’s both outstanding and hilarious that he updates his LinkedIn with his NBA experiences:
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The eruption from Fever players and fans as the Caitlin Clark pick is made. @TheNextHoops:
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Some golf talk with Caitlin Clark today at Fever practice. I asked Clark if she had played with Grace Berger, who won a state championship in golf in high school. Clark… was unaware of that fact:
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Clark was the last player on the floor after practice today, working on some defender-on-hip ball handling with Stephanie White and some assistants.
Fever rule out Caitlin Clark for Fever-Aces tomorrow with groin injury. Head coach Stephanie White: “My goal has always been the same. I don’t want this to be something that lingers… we want to make sure that she is 100% ready to go.”
Said the team is maintaining perspective.
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Indiana Fever players Lexie Hull, DeWanna Bonner, and Aliyah Boston taking photos with fans tonight. First fan in line with happy tears:
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Haliburton says his wrist is sore. "They said they were going to ramp up the physicality, they did. We're not crying, it's just basketball."
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"There's nothing like a bunch of pissed-off Colts fans to make the atmosphere what it needs to be," Carlisle said of the crowd.
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Caitlin Clark, Aliyah Boston, and Lexie Hull have arrived to see their head coach introduced.
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Fever wing Sophie Cunningham offers clarifying thoughts about her comments on WNBA expansion from earlier this week:
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AP photo from Michael Conroy of John Haliburton watching his son have perhaps the best game of his career.
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"I don't want to talk about the officiating. We're not expecting to get calls in here," Rick Carlisle says.
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I asked Rick Carlisle if he got an explanation for either his non-granted timeout or the Thunder's granted one on Toppin's steal late. "I'm not talking about the refs. If I talk about the refs, I'll be fined an exorbitant amount of money."
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And it's Tyrese Haliburton's night. 43 points (a career high), 10 threes (a Pacers franchise record), and the game winner with 2.5 seconds to go. A star.
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Lexie Hull, Erica Wheeler, and Maya Caldwell have Caitlin Clark jerseys on. @TheNextHoops:
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Danny Granger in the house tonight. Can’t remember the last time I saw him at Pacers anything.
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"Thomas Bryant in the second half gave us some of the greatest minutes you can ask of a backup center," Carlisle says.
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The Mad Ants are no more - the Pacers G League affiliate is now officially the Noblesville Boom.
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Tyrese Haliburton, discussing Tony Bradley postgame, said “Tony is just such an awesome guy.”
His presser ended, he pointed right at me and said “NOT you.”
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Asked Fever head coach Stephanie White for an update on Sophie Cunningham’s ankle injury. I might never get a better injury update response than this:
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It’s a scrimmage, but Tyrese Haliburton is currently telling the refs about a move he is going to do and clarifying that it’s not a travel.
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Myles Turner not traded, and it never made sense that he would be. It was all ridiculous.
Anyway, it's very cool that he'll play 10 full seasons with one franchise. Very rare in this NBA. Devin Booker will make it, too.
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It sure sounds like the Pacers found out Myles Turner was signing with the Bucks when Shams tweeted it. Caught them off guard.
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The Pacers have gone 3-12 in the last 3 postseasons and have been outscored by a total of only 6 points in that span.
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It's 7/1, so the NBA salary cap year has flipped over to 2022-23. Monta Ellis is officially no longer on the Pacers books.
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Programming: Won’t be covering Pacers-Grizzlies or Pacers-Clippers. Got married! Honeymooning quite far away.
Fortunately for you, @DustinDopirak will be at both games!
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"We're talking about 8 more wins for an NBA championship. The league is wide open this year," Carlisle says. "We've just got to keep believing."
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This shot ended up being the difference between the Pacers hosting their first-round series or not.
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Tyrese Haliburton says his little brother was called the n-word in the stands during Game 1. It didn't sit well with him and his family, and they had to talk through it.
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Christie Sides walk off after another impressive win for her team. Temi Fagbenle + Sides is pure energy.
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Caitlin Clark with the cannon to make sure the higher up fans get a ball on fan appreciation night.
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NBA says no missed calls in the final 2 minutes of Pacers-Thunder last night.
The L2M report for the qualifying game played yesterday has been posted on official.nba.com.
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Aliyah Boston has no color in her hair. I personally have never seen this. She said it’s had color since she was a junior in high school - 8 years! @TheNextHoops
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Tyrese Haliburton still getting front window treatment here at the official NBA store in Paris.
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Okay, time for a nonsense investigation into Jay Huff's age via two tweets. Here, you see the NBA wishing him a happy 28th birthday, implying he was born in 1997. That is his listed birth year on the NBA's website, too.
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“My mentality tonight is be on demon time,” Aari McDonald says of her first game back with the Fever.
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A lot of love for Andrew Nembhard from his teammates as he walked off the floor. They all know what he did defensively tonight was special.
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Tyrese Haliburton said Aaron Nesmith is someone who would “die for this.” @DustinDopirak asked Nesmith about it. His response:
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Asked Buddy Hield why he took this 3: “The crowd. They were like “shoot it, shoot it!’ I was like ‘imma listen to the crowd.”
Buddy Hield hits a nonsense 3 at the buzzer and the Pacers beat the Celtics. 122-112 final score. They're going to Vegas. Triple double for Haliburton. Myles Turner is hyped during his postgae interview. "We're gpoing to Vegas baby! Woo!"
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I might go to my grave never forgetting that Tyrese Haliburton made $200 million and then went to Twitter to post a video of The Million Dollar Man laughing for 34 seconds. An all-timer.
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Haliburton: "After we won, I kinda blacked out. I don't remember a ton."
Didn't know anything about the Giannis interaction with his dad. "I don't agree with what transpired there from [my dad]. Basketball is basketball."
He talked to his dad and told him he was in the wrong.
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Here’s Haliburton and Perez
Tyrese Haliburton is flying out Pacers fan Hanz Perez to a playoff game after he was hit with trash in New York for wearing his jersey 🔥
(Via @PatMcAfeeShow )
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Rick Carlisle says he was almost in tears yesterday telling TJ McConnell about his minutes. McConnell promised to be a professional.
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Tonight, the Indiana Fever will play their 11th game of the season. It is the 19th day of the 2024 WNBA calendar.
11 of their 40 games = 27.5%
19 out of 128 days = 14.8% of the season
Just a comical schedule to start the season. @TheNextHoops.
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Paparazzi Tony. Spotted Caitlin Clark signing items before heading out onto the floor to watch Team Clark practice.
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Pacers wins this season:
Last year's NBA Champions
Last year's Western Conference Champions
The Detroit Pistons
Sure!
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A whirlwind of a week for Chloe Bibby, joining the Fever after being in China when she got the call about Fever’s interest:
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