This giddy clash — Hicks versus Knicks, cornfields versus concrete — revives a rivalry that shaped the N.B.A.’s most ...

"At last I fit somewhere in the category of Larry Bird and Magic Johnson," he said. >> Episode 3 opened with the Indiana Pacers beating the Bulls, 94-83, on Nov. 27, 1997 to drop Chicago to 8-7.

Team owner Paul Gaston approached Bird, who had long retired as a player but remained a living symbol of Celtics pride, and ...

Few people could go toe-to-toe with Michael Jordan on a basketball court. Larry Bird was one of them. 12-time All-Star Larry Legend is a three-time NBA champion, two-time Finals MVP and three-time ...

"He rebounds. He plays at his own pace. He sort of controls the tempo on offense," he further said of Dirk. "It'd be nice to ...

Bird wasn't a loudmouth trying to compensate. He spoke with quiet confidence, throwing out lines that cut deep but didn't beg ...

Pacers two-time All-Star point guard Tyrese ... Later Tuesday, Haliburton helped lead Indiana to a 2-0 series lead with a 123-115 win over the Bucks in their first round matchup.

The Indiana Pacers are moving on after a Game 5 win over the Milwaukee Bucks on April 29. Indiana, the No. 4 seed in the Eastern Conference, will play the top-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers in the ...

but the Pacers dropped an easy 128-115 decision to the hated Knicks on Tuesday night for other reasons, reasons like Indiana’s ongoing rebounding deficiencies and a supernova night from New York ...

Knicks fans are no strangers to postseason collapses, and the Pacers have delivered more heartbreaks than any other team.

"He just really wanted to motivate himself," Ainge said of Larry's trash-talking. "But the most characteristic one was he ...