Indiana Pacers Rumors & News

ESPN.com "Erik Spoelstra is already in adjustment mode. The Miami Heat and the Indiana Pacers don't play Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals until Wednesday, but the Heat's coach is tweaking at least the narrative entering the best-of-seven series to advance to the NBA Finals. At one point while..." May 21

ESPN.com "Among the immediate concerns for the Indiana Pacers heading into the Eastern Conference finals against Miami is the state of David West's right calf. One of the longer-term worries, though, is West's forthcoming free agency. The Pacers' veteran leader openly loves his situation in Indiana,..." May 21

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel "Indiana Pacers coach Frank Vogel stressed Monday that he meant no disrespect to the Miami Heat in his postgame comments Saturday night and took to South Florida radio to clear the air. In the wake of the Pacers eliminating the New York Knicks in Saturday's Game 6 of that Eastern Conference..." May 20

ESPN.com "Frank Vogel said Monday that he has great respect for LeBron James and the Miami Heat, but as for James' perception that the Indiana Pacers coach considers Miami "just another team," he said the Heat superstar is mistaken. "Sorry, sports world, the words 'just another team' never came out of my..." May 20

Indianapolis Star "The Pacers-Heat starts in Miami on Wednesday and there already is plenty of chatter going on with LeBron James reacting to Pacers coach Frank Vogel saying the Heat are another team in our way. Vogel actually said “next team in our way.” LeBron James says he knows Pacers will try to put him on..." May 20

NBA.com "The Indiana Pacers had the No. 1 defense in the NBA this season and just shut down Carmelo Anthony and the New York Knicks over six games. The Miami Heat had the league's No. 1 offense and just dispatched Tom Thibodeau's D in five. The trump card in the Eastern Conference finals, tipping off..." May 20

Indianapolis Star "Small market, big heart. Clearly, somebody forgot to get the word out on the small-market conspiracy because, well, look at the NBA’s final four. Tiny Memphis. Tiny San Antonio. Miami, a big market but a fickle one. And now, the Indiana Pacers, owners of the league’s 22nd-ranked..." May 19

ESPN.com "The Miami Heat and Indiana Pacers don't start the Eastern Conference finals until Wednesday, but that hasn't stopped the teams from engaging one another early. Heat star LeBron James took exception Sunday to Pacers coach Frank Vogel referring to Miami as "just the next team" standing between..." May 19

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel "The rivalry has simmered for a year. Now the stakes are even higher. After defeating the Indiana Pacers in a bitterly contested six-game series in last season's Eastern Conference semifinals, the Miami Heat now will face the Pacers in the Eastern Conference finals, a series that opens..." May 19

New York Post "The Pacers prepared for the worst. But it worked out for the best — in every way. Indiana was preparing to go without George Hill, who had missed Thursday’s game with a concussion, but the starting point guard was cleared in the afternoon by team doctors and the league. He started and played 42..." May 19

Indianapolis Star "Lance Stephenson finished with a playoff career-high 25 points and 10 rebounds and the Indiana Pacers pulled away late to beat the New York Knicks 106-99 at Bankers Life Fieldhouse on Saturday night and won their Eastern Conference semifinal series four games to two. The victory sends the..." May 19

New York Post "Part of what has turned Lance Stephenson into a useful piece for the Pacers this season after two years spent mostly watching from the bench has been a much improved 3-point shot. And, according to Stephenson, a lot of the credit for that goes to Pacers associate head coach Brian Shaw. “He’s..." May 18

Indianapolis Star "Indiana Pacers point guard George Hill took part in the team’s shootaround at Bankers Life Fieldhouse today. But Hill, who suffered a concussion earlier this week, still isn’t cleared to play in tonight’s Game 6 against the New York Knicks at the fieldhouse. Pacers coach Frank Vogel said..." May 18

New York Post "If they absolutely had to, the Pacers believe they could win a Game 7 at the Garden. But it’s like getting in a car driven by Lindsay Lohan. If you can avoid it, by all means do. The way to avoid that winner-take-all, pack-your-bags-for-Miami showdown would be winning Game 6 of the Eastern..." May 18

New York Post "There is Cope! And hope. The Knicks are taking this series back to Indiana — something coach Mike Woodson predicted yesterday morning in a bold “I’m-expecting-to-win’’ declaration. Buoyed by ferociously physical defense, a bounce-back game from J.R. Smith, 28 points from Carmelo Anthony, a..." May 17

Indianapolis Star "The lack of respect is still there for the Indiana Pacers. They have beaten up, bullied and shut down the New York Knicks for most of the NBA’s Eastern Conference semifinals. But the credit has yet to show up for the Pacers. The talk of the series has centered on how the Knicks are..." May 16

New York Post "The Knicks went big in Indianapolis — and lost big. Now embattled coach Mike Woodson is ready to admit his mistake. The Knicks are expected to go back to small-ball tonight in looking for their season’s most giant victory in do-or-die Game 5 at the Garden. Carmelo Anthony will head back to his..." May 16

Indianapolis Star "One more win and the Indiana Pacers are in the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time in nine years. The Pacers took care of business on their home floor for the second straight game Tuesday night, beating the Knicks 93-82. The victory gives Indiana a commanding 3-1 lead in this..." May 15

New York Post "All they had to do was win one game on the road, and they would have been champions. All John Starks had to do was shoot a 3 over Hakeem Olajuwon at the end of Game 6 of the 1994 NBA Finals at the Summit, and they might have been champions. All Pat Riley had to do was sit Starks once he started..." May 14

New York Post "During a drive to the basket on Saturday, Iman Shumpert had a scary fall to the court, his legs doing an ugly split. It’s a spill that may affect him tonight. Shumpert, the Knicks’ second-year swingman who has been invaluable in the postseason, did not practice yesterday due to a sore left..." May 14

New York Post "Did you hear the one about the 7-foot-2 center who was fourth in the league in blocks, has confounded a high-scoring Knicks team in the playoffs with his inside presence and yet was found nowhere on the NBA’s All-Defensive teams? Yeah, the Pacers also thought it was a joke that Roy Hibbert was..." May 14

New York Post "This is a maddening, infuriating basketball team, these Knicks, a team that only sometimes plays tough and plays smart and does not understand the kind of commitment, the kind of will the NBA playoffs demand of you. They are in a hole now against the Pacers because only in Game 2 did they play..." May 13

New York Post "A little more than a month, roughly a quarter of the NBA season, had passed. Indiana center Roy Hibbert, after a summer that included signing a healthy contract extension, hovered near the bottom of the league’s field goal percentage stats. Just what you want from your 7-foot-2 two-way anchor...." May 13

New York Post "It’s entirely possible that whenever this season ends — this week, next week, next month — we will start to hear a few things about Tyson Chandler, about his neck, about his knee, about just how badly the late-season flu knocked out his legs and deflated his lungs. To Chandler’s credit, we hear..." May 13

New York Post "Faced with a 2-1 hole, an uncertain rotation, a flu bug making the rounds and a scoring tandem in the tank, coach Mike Woodson sounded desperate at yesterday’s practice. It’s crisis time for the Knicks going into Game 4 of this second-round series tomorrow at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, where they..." May 13

NBA.com "It’s not a subject anyone wants to discuss in too much detail with playoff games still to play, but it looms on the horizon. David West, the Pacers’ acknowledged locker room leader and vital power forward, becomes a free agent at the end of the season. Without question, losing the 32-year-old..." May 12

Indianapolis Star "Indiana Pacers center Roy Hibbert rebounded from a shaky offensive showing in Game 2 to power the Indiana Pacers Saturday night. Hibbert scored 24 points and grabbed 12 rebounds as the Pacers took a 2-1 series lead over the New York Knicks with a 82-71 victory on at Bankers Life Fieldhouse...." May 12

New York Post "Pacers center Roy Hibbert had not spoken to the playoff media from the interview podium before. So he asked teammates whether or not he should do it. Well, whether he was a logical choice to do so was a no-brainer. “This is his best playoff game ever, probably,” Pacers coach Frank Vogel..." May 12

New York Post "So you pick up a boxscore after Game 3 of the Eastern Conference semifinals between the Knicks and the Pacers. You look at 3-pointers and there’s no surprise. One side took 33, the other side took 11. Surprise. It was the Knicks, the guys who averaged 29 a game, taking just 11 and the Pacers,..." May 12

New York Post "Donnie Walsh said he is unsure he will return as Pacers president next season and thinks there’s still a chance Larry Bird will unretire and retake the helm. Walsh, the 72-year-old former Knicks president, told The Post Sunday he recently asked Bird if he wants to come back and he’d be willing..." May 12

Indianapolis Star "Indiana Pacers coach Frank Vogel is again facing one of the reasons for the team’s demise in the second-round playoff exit to the Miami Heat last season. Play the starters heavy minutes or roll the dice and hope the bench shows up? Vogel likely will have to play his starters longer minutes..." May 11

New York Post "Part of what has turned Lance Stephenson into a useful piece for the Pacers this season after two years spent mostly watching from the bench has been a much improved 3-point shot. And, according to Stephenson, a lot of the credit for that goes to Pacers associate head coach Brian Shaw. “He’s..." May 11

Indianapolis Star "Indiana Pacers swingman Paul George knows he can play his man tight on the perimeter. He can gamble a little more for steals because his backside is protected. Center Roy Hibbert knows he doesn’t have to worry about George being lazy on defense, allowing his man to beat him off the dribble like..." May 11

New York Post "The Pacers have been called boring, an under-the-radar team generally ignored nationally. So they finally got some notice, although it wasn’t what coach Frank Vogel intended. “If I knew all I had to do was call a bad timeout to get this team some national attention, I’d have done it two years..." May 10

Bergen Record "It wasn’t eight points in nine seconds, the lingering memory of that bit of Indiana Pacers history still jabbing at the Knicks as they took the floor Tuesday. In a must-win playoff game with the villain, Reggie Miller, was sitting courtside to provide an eery reminder of the event 18 years to the..." May 08

Indianapolis Star "I was wrong about Lance Stephenson. I’m sure I have lots of company, there. When the Indiana Pacers took him in the second round of the 2010 draft — and gave him a guaranteed contract — I thought Larry Bird was hitting the liquor cabinet. Stephenson was a too-typical New York City schoolboy..." May 07

New York Post "Mike Woodson isn’t changing his lineup, Carmelo Anthony will keep shooting and the Knicks say they will start redeeming tonight. The Knicks face a genuine must-win Game 2 against the Pacers, who took Game 1 of the second-round series, 102-95, Sunday at the Garden. A loss would put them down 0-2..." May 07

New York Post "So much for the Knicks’ claim they were “starving’’ for more success after their first-round conquest of Boston. In their first Eastern Conference semifinal game in 13 years, the Knicks looked sated, sluggish and just plain awful. A foul-plagued Carmelo Anthony and J.R. Smith combined to a..." May 06

New York Post "The stat lines indicated a mismatch, but were not nearly revealing enough. For the Knicks, Tyson Chandler: four points, three rebounds, fouled out. For the Pacers, Roy Hibbert: 14 points, eight rebounds, five blocked shots. Believe it, there was no bigger mismatch in the Pacers’ 102-95..." May 06

New York Post "Lance Stephenson, who won four city high school championships for Brooklyn’s Lincoln High at the Garden, said he was not about to go buying too many playoff tickets to yesterday’s game. He got five, and that was enough. “Tickets are very expensive and I’m not trying to waste my money,” he said..." May 06

New York Post "Knicks coach Mike Woodson called out Tyson Chandler yesterday, saying his center was outplayed by the Pacers’ Roy Hibbert and declaring that he needs Chandler to win his matchup against the Indiana big man going forward. The biggest individual matchup in this Eastern Conference semifinals..." May 06

New York Post "George Hill, the Pacers’ starting point guard, gave a simple message to his backup D.J. Augustin. Shoot. “I’ve been telling him even when he only has 10 minutes in the game to try to get 10 shots, because he’s that good of a shooter,” Hill said after the Pacers’ 102-95 Game 1 victory over..." May 06

North Jersey "Just four minutes and 12 seconds into the second half, Mike Woodson had to make a decision. Carmelo Anthony was whistled for his fourth foul and the Knicks coach decided with the Knicks down by six points, he would sit his star. Anthony sat on the bench, already struggling with his left..." May 05

Indianapolis Star "Donnie Walsh is Dr. Frankenstein, and the New York Knicks, the Pacers’ second-round opponent today at 3:30, are his monster. Or mostly his monster, anyway. How strange is that? The team Walsh built from the detritus left by Isiah Thomas’ bungled leadership against the team he has taken over..." May 05