6 playoff encounters in 8 years! 3 times stepped on the opponent to the finals!

It can be seen that MOP (Most Overrated Player) Halliburton really wants to cosplay Reggie Miller too much. After the tie in G1, he replicated Miller's classic throat lock gesture. Today, he hit a key three-pointer in the last 3 minutes and paid tribute to Miller again. Then he made a confident move outside the three-point line and made a three-pointer...

, Halliburton made 3 of 10 three-pointers and 5 of 16 shots, but the Pacers tried their best to score 2-0 away.

Don't blame Halliburton for being too good at rubbing, it's really the story between the Pacers and the Knicks is so legendary. If I change to me, I will do it too.

Today's game is the 50th playoff game between the two teams, with the Pacers winning 28 games and the Knicks winning 22 games.

Except this round of the Eastern Conference Finals, they met 8 times in the playoffs, and the Pacers eliminated the Knicks five times.

It seems that the walkers have the upper hand. But in the 1990s, when the two teams had the deepest grudges, they actually met opponents and were nemesis on each other.

From 1993 to 2000, the two teams met six times in the playoffs within 8 years.

1993 should be worthy of memory for the Knicks.

That year, since Jordan began to dominate the league in 1991, a team pulled the Bulls from the throne of the Eastern Conference in the regular season for the first time - the Knicks won 60 wins, tying the best record in team history.

In the first round, the Knicks easily defeated the eighth Pacers in the East 3-1, and fought all the way to the Eastern Conference Finals, but was eliminated by the Bulls for the third consecutive year. Compared with the later battle with the Pacers, the Bulls were the biggest heart disease of the New Yorkers at that time.

The following year, Jordan retired for the first time. Despite this, the Knicks narrowly defeated the Bulls led by Pippen after seven fierce battles in the second round.

Pacers are the sixth in the East, and have eliminated the Magic, which has the first dual core of Hardaway and O'Neal, and the Hawks, who are the first in the East in the regular season. Before that, Miller led the team to the playoffs for the first time in 1990, and has been in the round for four consecutive years. In 1994, it was the first time they actually played on the card table in the playoffs. In the Eastern Conference Finals, the two teams had a full-scale battle of seven games. It was not until the last 27 seconds of G7 that Ewing's score was won and lost. The Knicks returned to the finals after 21 years.

This Eastern Conference Final also laid the foundation for the grudges between the two teams in the 1990s - 6 duels, 3 times were in the Eastern Conference Finals. Whoever wins will be able to reach the finals and then lose to the West...

In 1995, the two teams met in the playoffs for the third consecutive year. In the second round, there were seven more bloody battles, and it was not until the last moment of tiebreak that the winner was decided. Ewing lost a tie layup, allowing the Pacers to eliminate the Knicks in the playoffs for the first time.

In the two consecutive years of showdown, Miller also played two world-famous paintings in his career - G5 in 1994, with 25 points in the last quarter, aiming at Spike Li Suoho; G1 in 1995, with 8 points in 9 seconds in the last quarter. In 1996 and 1997, the Pacers and the Knicks had a hard time. Of course, in those two years, other teams in the Eastern Conference, and even all teams in the league, had a hard time - except for the Bulls.

Because I came back on the 23rd.

In those two years, the Knicks had never entered the Eastern Conference Finals, and the Pacers simply couldn't even enter the playoffs. It was not until 1998 that the last dance of the Bull Dynasty, that the two teams finally smelled the collapse of the dynasty.

In the Eastern Conference semi-finals that year, the Pacers defeated the Knicks 4-1 and almost pulled the Bulls off, leaving only Miller pushing Jordan away from his three-pointer.

In 1999 and 2000, the two teams met in the Eastern Conference Finals in a row, and each won again. Subsequently, they lost to the Spurs and Lakers in the finals.

It is not embarrassing to lose to them, because since 1999, the two teams have won seven championships in nine years.

However, after finally enduring Jordan and fighting each other for a loss, the old Ewing and Miller discovered that the other side of the mountain was already the dawn of the gods.