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After John Mellencamp struck Pat McAfee for his explicit media threshing speech for Fans of Indiana Pacers, a franchise legend seemed to take one side.
McAfee inflated the pacers fans in the last minutes of match 4 of the Eastern conference finals Tuesday, but it left Mellencamp “embarrassed”.
The old bettor of the Indianapolis colts called fans of famous Knicks Timothée Chalamet, Spike Lee and Ben Stiller and told the fans of Pacers to “turn this S — Up” and “send these sons of B ——– in New York with their ears”.
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Former Indiana Pacers Reggie Miller goalkeeper before match 3 of the Eastern Conference final in 2025. (Trevor Ruszkowsk / Imagn Images)
MellenoCamp said that “someone” used “a bad sporting spirit”. He did not specifically mention McAfee by name, but it was not exactly a secret, and McAfee replied on X that “I am someone”.
Before calling match 5 Thursday, the legend of the Pacers Reggie Miller published a video editing of him greeting MellenoCamp who included the successful song of Mellencamp, “Jack & Diane”.
“Only the real hoosiers know what this man means for Indiana. Honoré to call [Mellencamp] A real friend, “Miller wrote on Instagram.” Dinners, video shoots, a tourist bus jump, singing on stage, I did everything with him. Nothing but incompetional [love] For him and his family, thank you for always being there for some of these end of evening calls to let off steam during the day. #Jackanddiane. “”
John Mellencamp and Pat McAfee (Getty Images; Imagn)
The Pacers won the match 4 after McAfee took the microphone to take a 3-1 lead, but the series returned to Indiana after the Knicks wiped the ground with the Pacers in match 5.
Hide McAfee challenged to attend match 5 At Madison Square Garden in New York on Thursday, but McAfee said that he “did not pay $ 70,000 for a ticket.”
Match 6 will be played on Saturday evening. With a victory, it will be the first trip of the Pacers to the NBA final since 2000, when they also beat the Knicks in the finals of the Eastern Conference.
If the Knicks manage to win the next two, it will be their first appearance in the final since 1999, when they beat the Pacers to get there.
Reggie Miller and Spike Lee speak before a match between the Golden State Warriors and the New York Knicks on December 14, 2021, at Madison Square Garden in New York, NY (Jesse D. Garrabrant / NBAE via Getty Images)
The winner of the series will face Oklahoma City Thunder, who will play for a championship for the first time since 2012.
