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Pacers now 0-4 in NBA Conference Finals games played on Indy 500 day

Indianapolis was the center of the sports world on Sunday night, when the NBA’s Eastern Conference finals and the Indianapolis 500 went on practically back-to-back. The Indy 500 was raced, as it always is, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana, an enclave of Indianapolis named after its most famous feature, while the Pacers hosted the New York Knicks in Game 3 of the conference finals at the Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis proper.

The Pacers blew a 20-point lead and lost, 106-100, cutting their lead in the series to 2-1. Prior to Sunday night, was it unrealistic to believe that Indiana would sweep the Knicks? Did the scope of New York’s collapse in Game 1 overstate the differences between these two teams? Should we be trying to glean meaning from a single game like this at all? 

Or maybe we should have seen this coming in the first place, regardless of how the series had gone to this point. After all, the Pacers have yet to win an Eastern Conference finals game at home when it’s played on the same day as the Indianapolis 500.

Karl-Anthony Towns reacts after dunking the ball against Andrew Nembhard and Myles Turner of the Indiana Pacers during the fourth quarter in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals. (Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images)

Indiana first played an ECF game on the same day as the Indy 500 in 1999, on May 30… against the Knicks. That was a Game 1 matchup, which New York won 93-90 — the Pacers would end up going on to lose the series, 4-2, while the Knicks dropped the NBA Finals to the Spurs. Then, in 2004, the Pacers dropped Game 5 to the Pistons on Indy 500 day, before Detroit went on to the NBA Finals to defeat the Lakers. In 2013, Indiana took on the Heat, led by LeBron

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