Indiana beats New York to go to conference finals for the first time in 10 years

The Indiana Pacers advanced to the conference finals.

Indiana won 130-109 in Game 7 of the conference semifinals against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden on the 20th (Korea time) and confirmed its advance to the conference finals with a total of 4-3 wins.

It is the first time in 10 years that the team has gone to the conference finals since the 2013-14 season.

They will first play the best-of-seven conference finals against the first-seeded Boston Celtics.

Indiana was on a roll from the start. It led 39-27 in the first quarter alone.

According to "NBA.com ", 39 points in the first quarter was the most in the first quarter of Game 7 of the playoffs since the 1997-98 season when the game situation began to be recorded.

In the second quarter, the gap widened to 22 points. When the buzzer sounded at the end of the first half, the score was 70-55. Indiana recorded a field goal success rate of 76.3% (29/38) in the first half alone.

NBA.com introduced 76.3% as the best team fielding success rate in the first and second half of the playoffs since the 1997-98 season.

New York chased again in the third quarter, narrowing the gap to 73-67, 6 points with 8:06 left, but the gap no longer narrowed.

Tyreece Halliburton scored 26 points, Pascal Siakam and Andrew Nembard scored 20 each, Aaron Nesmith scored 19 and Myles Turner scored 17.

New York's OG Anunobi, who forced his participation despite a hamstring injury, played only 4:41 seconds, and to make matters worse, even the team's main scorer Jaylen Brunson left due to a broken left hand.

Donte DiVincenzo scored 39 points and Alec Birx, who started on the bench, scored 26 points, but it faded. 안전놀이터 추천