One of the Indiana Pacers' unlikely heroes in Game 2's win over the New York Knicks on Friday night was Pascal Siakam, who put up a playoff career high 39 points to lift his team to a thrilling 114-109 victory.
Thanks to Tyrese Haliburton's heroics in Game 1 and Siakam's big statline in Game 2, the Pacers now hold a commanding 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference finals going into their two-game homestand at Gainsbridge Fieldhouse. It's the most ideal of starts in the ECF for a young and largely underestimated Pacers side that many NBA analysts and pundits didn't give a second thought to in their preseason predictions.
