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NBA Betting Online: The Indiana Pacers were founded in 1967. They currently compete in the Central Division of the NBA's Eastern Conference.
The Pacers have won three championships (all in the American Basketball Association), six conference titles and seven division crowns. They play homes games at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.
Indiana quickly established a dynasty in the upstart ABA. Coached by Bob "Slick" Leonard, the Pacers won three championships during the first four seasons of the league. Those teams were led by Jimmy Rayl, Mel Daniels, George McGinnis, Bob Netolicky, Rick Mount and Roger Brown.
The Pacers would reach the ABA Finals five times in the league's nine-year history before joining the NBA during the merger in 1976. This is when the Indiana organization began to struggle.
The Pacers posted a 36-46 record in their inaugural season. Over the next 13 years, they would attain a winning record just three times and only qualify for the playoffs twice.
It wasn't until Reggie Miller showed up in 1987 did Indiana's bad fortunes begin to somewhat fade. Center Rik Smits was taken in the following draft but the team still didn't have a competent head coach.
Larry Brown was brought in before the 1993-94 season and he led the Pacers to a franchise-high 47 wins. They swept Shaquille O'Neal and the Orlando Magic in the first round and upset the Atlanta Hawks in the semis as heavy underdogs. Miller became a household name in the conference finals against New York, proving to be a clutch 3-point shooter.
Miller also put a bull's eye on his back at Madison Square Garden by taunting New York superfan Spike Lee in that series. But Miller would have the last laugh the following postseason. The Pacers trailed the Knicks by six points with 8.9 second left in Game 1 but Miller scored eight points in the waning ticks to secure the victory.
Indiana went on to beat the Knicks in that series but it lost to Orlando in the Eastern Conference Finals. The next two seasons produced the same results, conference finals exits, but the Pacers finally broke through in 2000 by beating New York in six games. But they ultimately lost to the Lakers in the NBA Finals.
Miller provided plenty of magic moments in Pacers history but one of the team's most infamous moments wasn't so positive. Early in the 2004 season Indiana was playing the Pistons on the road. Mercurial guard Ron Artest and another player engaged in a shoving match which would eventually spawn an all-out melee.
While Artest was lying on top of the scorer's table, a Detroit fan threw a cup of beer on him. Artest became enraged and stormed into the stands, throwing punches at every spectator that tried to stop him.
Teammate Stephen Jackson followed Artest while Jermaine O'Neal hit a fan who came onto the court. The game was called off with 46 seconds still on the clock. The Pacers exited the building amid a shower of beer and boos.
The incident has simply become known as "The Malice at the Palace." Artest was suspended by Commissioner David Stern a total of 73 games, which cost him nearly $5 million in salary. Jackson received a 30-game suspension while O'Neal got docked 15 games.
The current Pacers roster is comprised players like Danny Granger, Darren Collison, Paul George, Roy Hibbert and Tyler Hansbrough. As an interim coach, Frank Vogel took the team to the playoffs in 2011, the first trip since 2006. Vogel was named the permanent head coach following the postseason where Indiana lost to Chicago in five games.
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