Mario Chalmers scored 26 points, Chris Bosh added 24 and the Heat won their 18th straight game, easily topping the Indiana Pacers 105-91 even with James scoring only a season-low 13, yet clearly helping control play with seven assists and six rebounds.
Roy Hibbert's block of Anthony's dunk attempt midway through the fourth quarter spurred an 11-2 run that rallied the Indiana Pacers to a 106-99 victory over the Knicks in Game 6 of their second-round series, sending them into their first Eastern Conference final since 2004.
With the win, the Knicks (51-26) are nearly certain to land the second seed in the Eastern Conference Playoffs, relegating the Indiana Pacers (49-29) to the third seed.
Only the 1993-94 Indiana Pacers advanced as far as the Conference Finals without an All-Star.
Then there are the Indiana Pacers, the money-losing NBA team owned by Herbert.
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The New York Knicks felt they were outworked even more than outplayed in a 102-95 loss to the Indiana Pacers on Sunday that put them in a 1-0 hole in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
Brooklyn is still going to the playoffs, but could have closed to within one game of Indiana after the Pacers lost 90-80 to the New York Knicks.
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TORONTO In the moments that followed their most embarrassing defeat of the season one in which the offensively challenged Indiana Pacers embarked on a slam-dunk deluge and essentially scored at will the Knicks spoke again of how they played without passion.
Having been locked in four gaunlet-style contests with the rough-and-tumble Indiana Pacers who are fantastic defensively, but struggle to score the Knicks figured they'd be in great shape to force a Game 7 if they could only have a breakout game on offense.
They can't get enough rebounds, can't get Dwyane Wade on track, can't get consistency out of Chris Bosh and will likely see all those story lines either grow exponentially or basically disappear Thursday night, when they host to the Indiana Pacers in Game 5 of a super-competitive Eastern Conference finals that's now knotted at two games apiece.
Atlanta was called for two more technicals because of defensive 3-second calls, got outrebounded 51-28 and still had to hear Indiana fans complain that the Pacers weren't doing enough on the glass, and were outscored 36-28 in the paint.
Anthony scored 28 points and the Knicks avoided elimination in the Eastern Conference semifinals with an 85-75 victory over the Indiana Pacers in Game 5 on Thursday night.
And despite having a treacherous set of teams on their side of the bracket Boston, the Indiana Pacers and the Atlanta Hawks each possess top-10 defenses the Knicks likely would be favored to advance to the Eastern finals regardless of who they face next round.
Back when World Peace was still Artest and playing for the Indiana Pacers, he made headlines in 2004 for his role in a brawl between players and fans at a Pacers-Pistons game after somebody threw a drink on him.
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The free throw Indiana got as a result put the Pacers up 17, 38-21, with 10 minutes left in the half.
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Anthony scored 21 points and the Knicks held on after blowing most of a 26-point lead to advance to the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Indiana Pacers.
LeBron James thoroughly dominated the Indiana Pacers in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals on Wednesday night, scoring a game-high 30 points, collecting a triple-double, and securing a Miami victory with a game-winning layup as time expired.
They'd watched a 13-point lead dissolve into a two-point deficit in the span of just one quarter, and the Indiana Pacers, full of momentum and already up by one game in the playoff series, seemed to have the home team right where they wanted it for a second straight victory.
It might have fired up Indiana a bit as the Pacers scored the final nine points of the third quarter to get within 79-65.
Anthony scored 25 points on 9-for-23 shooting against the rugged Indiana defense, and the Knicks wrapped up the second spot with a 90-80 victory over the Pacers on Sunday.
Paul George, Indiana's All-Star, managed just four points on 2-of-10 shooting as the Pacers closed out the Hawks on Friday in Atlanta.
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