Carlisle would not endorse the chosen order of issues here. As he began to field questions after the game, he made it quite clear that he believed the turnovers — 23 in all that led to 32 Thunder points — were far and away at the top of the Pacers’ list of problems.

Indiana Pacers' Tyrese Haliburton's Game 5 Performance Was Historically Bad originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The Indiana Pacers dropped Game 5 of the 2025 NBA Finals 120-109 to the Oklahoma City Thunder. Coming into the game, the series was tied 2-2, with the winner laying claim to the series advantage.

Former Kansas shooting guard Johnny Furphy's fast-break and-one layup with 54 seconds left in Game 5 of the 2025 NBA Finals did not go unnoticed by social media users Monday night. The Indiana Pacers' slender 6-foot-9,

The Oklahoma City Thunder are one win away from an NBA championship. OKC defeated the Indiana Pacers 120-109 in Game 5 of the 2025 NBA Finals on Monday at Paycom Center. It now leads the series 3-2 after overcoming a deficit in crunch time of Game 4 on the road to avoid a 3-1 hole.

As the Pacers push through the NBA Finals, their balanced approach and defensive identity are drawing strong comparisons to a team that shocked the league in 2011.

The jerseys both have ''Indiana'' across the front, but the similarities end there between IU and the NBA's Indiana Pacers. Still, I was curious, and went to Twitter to take a poll. Hoosiers fans, how big is your love for the Pacers?

Indiana Pacers coach Rick Carlisle offered an impassioned and somewhat unprompted defense of referee Scott Foster, evidently aware of mountains of online criticism.