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The Indiana Pacers and New York Knicks will play the match 1 of the finals of the Eastern Conference Wednesday evening at Madison Square Garden, where they will add another chapter to their history of qualifying series.
The Knicks and the Pacers clashed in the playoffs six times from 1993 to 2000, with these series strewn with heated moments between players and fans.
Here are some of the most emblematic moments of clashes between the bitter rivals over the years.
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New York Knicks goalkeeper John Starks, on the right, fallen on goalkeeper from Indiana Pacers Reggie Miller in a match on April 2, 1996, in Indianapolis. (John Ruthroff / AFP via Getty Images)
The head
The Knicks were up to 2-0 on the Pacers in the first round of the NBA qualifiers in 1993, when Tempers broke out in the third quarter. The star goalkeeper of the Knicks, John Starks, after marked, spoke of the trash cans towards Reggie Miller.
The fall of the trash culminated with Starks Headbutting Miller. Starks was quickly ejected from the game. The Pacers won this match 3, but the Knicks won match 4 and the series.
However, the bases of the bitterness between the teams were laid with the whim.
The gesture of strangulation
In 1994, the two teams met again, this time in the final of the Eastern Conference. The Knicks sought to take an advance of 3-2 commander in match 5 and increased by 70-58 in the third quarter.
However, Miller dominated the fourth quarter, where he scored 25 of his 39 points. Throughout the fourth quarter, Miller went back and forth with Knicks Supperan Spike Lee.
Miller mulled Lee by making a gesture of now infamous. The Pacers won this match 5 behind the strong performances of the Millers, but lost the following two games, and the Knicks won the series in seven games and went to the NBA final.
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Larry Johnson of New York Knicks overturns a 3 -point pointer and is the victim of a fault by Antonio Davis of Indiana Pacers for a rare game of 4 points during the victory in the Knicks qualifiers on June 5, 1999. (Linda Cataffo / Ny Daily News Archive via Getty Images)
The improbable return
For the third consecutive year, the Pacers and Knicks faced the playoffs in 1995, this time in the semi-finals of the Eastern Conference.
Miller, who had been at the heart of the rivalry, is the author of one of the most incredulous returns in the history of the NBA qualifiers.
The Knicks were up 105-99 with 16 seconds playing in the fourth quarter of the match 1 when Miller shot the match by scoring eight points in nine seconds.
The Pacers star pierced a 3 -second pointer with about 16 seconds to play, then struck another 3 pointer after stealing the incoming pass of the Knicks. After the Knicks missed a pair of free throws and an attempted step back, Miller caught the rebound and was then at fault.
Miller went to the free throw line, buried two free throws and gave the Pacers an advance of 107-105.
The 1995 series, like the 1994 match, experienced the seven full games, but the Pacers prevailed this time and went to the final of the Eastern Conference.
Larry Johnson’s 4 -point game
The two teams gathered in the semi-finals of the 1998 Eastern Conference, but the Pacers were heavy favorites due to the wrist injury of Knicks star, the star of Knicks. The Pacers sent the Knicks in five games.
However, during the 1999 Eastern Conference finals, the two teams reinvested themselves and the Knicks were not as surpassed as the previous season.
The Knicks won the series in six games, Johnson delivering one of the most emblematic shots in the history of the franchise in match 3.
The Pacers held an advance of 91-88 with six seconds to play in the match when Johnson nailed a 3-point pointer and was also the victim of a fault by Antonio Davis. Johnson struck the franc launch to give the Knicks an advance of 92-91, and this score would be held as the Knicks ripped the victory of the jaw from the defeat.
The Indiana Pacers Tyrese Haliburton goalkeeper was presented during the fourth quarter of match 7 in the second round of the playoffs against the Knicks at Madison Square Garden in New York on May 19, 2024. (Brad Penner-USA TODAY SPORTS)
A shooting performance of all time
The Pacers and Knicks played again in the final of the Eastern Conference in 2000, and the Pacers survived the Knicks in six games, take revenge for 1999.
The next time the two teams met in the playoff series, it was 2013 in the semi-finals of the Eastern Conference, with new stars involved to revive the rivalry.
The pacers led by Paul George killed the Knicks led by Carmelo Anthony in six games.
The two teams would not meet in the playoffs before last season in the semi-finals of the Eastern Conference. The Pacers sent a Knicks team which was decimated by an injury in match 7 with a historic shooting performance.
The Pacers pulled an astonishing 67.1% of the field in this match 7, good for a record for the NBA qualifying series, in their victory of 130-109.
The Pacers have a record for the 5-3 series on the Knicks in the playoffs and have a record of 26-22 playoffs against the Knicks.
