A few of you, our dear readers, saw that butt-kicking coming. Most of you knew an Indaina Pacers victory was possible, but not like that.
Another segment didn’t think beating Cleveland was possible.
Even less of you were in Darren Rovell’s camp, where you just had an epiphany: “Well I’ll be damned, they play basketball in Indiana. Who knew?”
A few days before game one, we published an article called “The Pacers can knock off the Cavaliers, but it won’t be easy” which you can read here. The thought behind that story was: if Indiana does these things they should win.