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The Pacers only made it to the NBA playoffs three times in their first 13 seasons. [1] The Pacers would not win their first playoff series until the 1993–94 season, which came against the Orlando Magic. It was during this time that the Pacers were led by 1987 draft pick, Reggie Miller, who entered the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012. [2]
Reggie scored 29 points in that game, but the Hawks came away with a two-point victory to put an early end to Indiana's season. This 1995–96 team did manage to go down in history as the only team to defeat the Chicago Bulls twice that year, a Bulls team which made history with an all-time best 72–10 record.
Denotes player who has been selected for at least one All-Star Game with the Indiana Pacers x: Denotes player who is currently on the Indiana Pacers roster: 0.0: Denotes the Indiana Pacers statistics leader (min. 100 games played for the team for per-game statistics) player: Denotes player who has played for the Indiana Pacers in the ABA
Best record heading into the All-Star Break in NBA history (48–4, 0.923) Winning streaks of 24 and 11 games Second earliest clinch of playoff berth since 1984 (the 2016–17 Warriors beat it by two days and was eventually beaten by the 2019–20 Bucks )
However, at the end of the day the Raptors' best scorers were too physical for the remaining Pacers defenders to slow them down. Toronto scored 66 points in the paint, making 33 of their 50 shots ...
Outlook: After earning first-team All-Rookie honors in 2022-23 and scoring the third-most points of any Pacers rookie in history, Mathurin had to get used to the idea of playing within the system ...
The Gonzaga Bulldogs are the only team to break into the top 50 on the all-time ranking list, landing at number 41. The South Carolina Gamecocks come in at 62, and the Oregon Ducks are listed at 66.
The 1995–96 Chicago Bulls had, at the moment, the best single-season record in NBA history with 72 wins. Six out of the 30 NBA franchises (29 franchises at the time of announcement) had a team named to the list; the Boston Celtics, the Chicago Bulls, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Philadelphia 76ers had two teams selected.