INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Pacers and Denver Nuggets accomplished one goal Friday night. They fought their way back into the conference semifinals by avoiding the dreaded 3-0 deficits. Now comes the harder part — getting even. After earning key wins in very different ways, the Pacers and Nuggets return to the court Sunday for pivotal Game 4 matchups against the bruised New York Knicks and the strong Minnesota Timberwolves. “We understood our backs were against the wall, we're here at home,”
P.J. Washington has scored 57 combined points in the last two games to lead Dallas past the Thunder.
Anunoby injured his hamstring in Game 2 and did not play in Friday's loss to the Pacers.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The San Antonio Spurs presented Victor Wembanyama with the NBA Rookie of the Year trophy on Saturday at the planetarium on the campus of San Antonio College — an appropriate venue, perhaps, for a player nicknamed “The Alien.” The 7-foot-3 center from France was a unanimous selection, the sixth player in league history to receive every first-place vote for an award that's been handed out since 1953. He joined Houston’s Ralph Sampson (1984), the Spurs' David Robinson (1990), the