Carlisle, the longtime NBA head coach, has received endless praise over the offseason as he's helped lead the Pacers through the Eastern Conference and now to a lead in the NBA Finals over the league's best regular season team. Barkley's only kidding, but with how the Knicks have went about their coaching search, don't put anything past them.

The NBA’s 3-point shot ... in this season’s playoffs at 40.1% while making 13.4 per game. How important has the 3-point shot become? Two decades ago, teams averaged 15.8 3-point attempts ...

John Schuhmann The Pacers are at their best scoring off made baskets, which is a strategy ... Finals matchup that will produce a 1st-time NBA champion. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander leads an explosive ...

Tyrese Haliburton credits Stephen Curry for his NBA Finals success, utilizing decade's worth of Curry's defensive strategies.

Thunder series, Oklahoma City suffered a crushing business loss to Indianapolis. OKC rebuilt itself in Indy's image.

Charles Barkley joked about the Knicks' coaching search strategy by making a direct reference to the Pacers' head coach Rick Carlisle.

Gilgeous-Alexander was off his game for much of the night, but played like the league MVP in the fourth to lead the OKC rally.