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This year’s NBA finals are a battle between two small market franchises, but the governor of Indiana is completely hugging the national care center that shines in its state.
The Pacers are in their first NBA finals since 2000, facing the Oklahoma City Thunder. The Pacers won three ABA titles in the early 1970s, while the Thunder organization has not won a title since 1979, when they were the Seattle Supersonics.
The Pacers have 1-0 in the series after another incredible return. Governor Mike Braun said he saw the game again shortly after he finished, and then once again the next morning. Now, he is starting to think that they are a “destination team” that embodies the blue neck attitude of his state.
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The Indiana Pacers striker Aaron Nesmith, and Guard Tyrese Haliburton celebrate after a play against the Oklahoma City Thunder during the NBA finals in Paycom Center. (Kyle Terada-Imagn images)
Braun was a basketball player in high school, and even played against the legend of Indiana Larry Bird.
“Basketball to Hoosiers, are another 49 states, and then it is Indiana. It means a lot, because the Pacers have always been competitive, but they have never been in that position to win it,” Braun said in a recent interview with Pak Gazette Digital. “And this is not one with authority that has now become a destination team, it seems almost. But returning from 15 points (in game 1), it is a state of forgiveness.
“I have always loved when I was in sport and even as a politician, and there is something about it. When it works, it is even sweeter. So Spotlight goes in Indiana, the same center of attention to Oklahoma, two states that are not to the national right. Of course, we are now knowing every minute …
Braun said that the finals are an opportunity for Indiana to tell their own history, and show why people are going there to live.
“I remember that when I lived in Boston for two years going to the Business School, geography should not have taken high school. They had a couple of people who asked:” Where is Indiana? “Braun recalled.
Then-sen. Mike Braun speaks at the United States Capitol on March 6, 2024 in Washington, DC (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
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Braun has lived the American dream. After playing against Larry Bird at high school, he became an entrepreneur before entering politics. Today, while leading Indiana, three of her four children run her business, and her wife has owned the same home accessories gift store for 47 years.
And while he is watching his Pacers compete for his first NBA championship, he can’t stop thinking about a film about Indiana’s basketball and the next generation.
“Well, I think that would come back if you saw the movie ‘Hoosiers’, that would tell you all the reasons for (why Indiana is the state of basketball). We have so much history of that, and the test is in the pudding.”
That test is Braun’s attire while campaigning and discussed, only long -sleeved sleeve shirts. Ah, and Bobby Knight bind to him in the campaign.
Indiana Pacers Guard, Tyrese Haliburton, dribble the ball against Oklahoma City Thunder Shai Gilgeous-Alxander during the NBA finals. (Kyle Terada-Imagn images)
“Where I grew up, right on the 231 highway, he really didn’t pay much attention driving every day,” said Braun, “but in that same basketball goal in which I played he is a high school student or a high school student still on the entrance way.”
