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Tyrese Haliburton scored 31 points, Pascal Siakam added 21 and the Indiana Pacers advanced to the ESE conference for the second consecutive year with a 114-105 victory on Cleveland on Tuesday night, eliminating the best planted cavaliers in five games.
Donovan Mitchell, who lost the second half of Sunday’s game due to a sprain in the left ankle, took Cleveland with 35 points. Evan Mobley added 24 points and 11 rebounds.
The fourth -sized Pacers will now wait for the winner of the confrontation between the Boston Celtics and New York Knicks. New York has an advantage of 3-1 in the series with game 5 on Wednesday night in Boston.
The Celtics swept the Pacers last year in the East Finals.
Indiana recovered from a 19 -point deficit in the first half and took control after part time, since she won the three games at Cleveland Rocket Arena.
It is the first time from a 2005 first round series against Boston that the Pacers won three road games in a playoff series.
The cavs fell three games at home in a postseason series for the first time.
Cleveland came to an advantage of 44-25 with 8:10 remaining in the second quarter before Indiana recovered.
The Pacers arrived within 56-52 in the half time and then fired 14 of 22 from the field in the third quarter, including four triples, to climb 85-76 in the last 12 minutes.
Indiana took control with a 17-2 race in a period of five minutes in the third when Siakam had eight points and Haliburton five. That was part of an outbreak of 29-8 that saw the Pacers take a 12-point advantage at the end of the third.
Cleveland was only 7 of 26 of the field in the room.
Triple of Mitchell obtained the CAVs within 106-103 with 1:27 remaining, but Indiana closed it by scoring eight of the 10 final points.
Associated Press reports.
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