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How We Got to the NBA Conference Finals

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The NBA’s conference finals are set after two game sevens on Sunday. In the east the Boston Celtics will take on the Indiana Pacers, while out west, we’ve got the Minnesota Timberwolves against the Dallas Mavericks. It’s a star-studded affair, and frankly a window into the next chapter in the NBA. And the most important question is, who’s going on to the finals? So today ESPN NBA writer Tim Bontemps says goodnight to the Knicks, and explains how the Pacers, Celtics, Mavs, and TWolves got to the final four. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is a really a neat moment here here the team on the verge of being eliminated

0:06.4

but these fans have fallen in love with this team.

0:10.1

It's just it's always you know the old ABC wild world of sports saying the thriller

0:17.6

victory in the agony of defeat no better example than in a game seven. Tim Bon Temps, good times.

0:25.0

You just came from within the belly of the Beast Madison Square Garden.

0:32.6

Vibcheck, what was it like, sir?

0:34.5

I mean, it was a heck of an atmosphere,

0:36.0

as you would expect, but it was an even better performance

0:38.8

from Tyreece, Alberton, and the Indiana Pacers.

0:41.4

I mean, in game sevens these are the games that

0:44.1

really burnish legacies and legends and 30 years ago Reggie Miller made a

0:50.3

legacy for himself forever in New York and in the NBA with his performances

0:54.0

of Madison Square Garden and Tyries Hal Burton wearing a Reggie Miller hoodie with

1:00.1

his picture on it doing the choke sign from back then.

1:03.2

Pad 26 and 6 was John with a fan court side and led the pacer's to what was the single

1:10.1

greatest shooting performance in history of the NBA playoffs, set a new record for field goal

1:14.4

percentage in a playoff game, and the Pacers stun the Knicks and advance to the conference

1:19.5

finals and continue what's been a pretty remarkable season for them going back to

1:24.4

their running the end season tournament back in December.

1:26.6

It's not exactly championship gear but I do love post-game statement gear that otherwise

1:32.2

wouldn't have come out of the closet if you had lost.

1:35.7

That is an excellent move.

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