Caitlin Clark wasn’t on the courtroom Saturday night time, however whipped out a notable celebration anyway.
Clark was sitting courtside together with Fever teammates Lexie Hull and Aliyah Boston because the Pacers eradicated the Knicks within the Jap Convention Finals, and whipped out Jalen Brunson’s signature 3-point celebration after a Tyrese Haliburton three.
Clark is at the moment out with a quad challenge, so she will’t hit the celebration for herself. However she took the possibility to have fun the opposite workforce on the town and troll the Knicks’ level guard.
Brunson has made a little bit of a thriller out of the celebration up to now, saying after a 2023 playoff sport, “Don’t fear about it,” when ESPN’s Lisa Salters requested why he does it — although he did open up about it to The Submit’s Stefan Bondy final yr.
We’ll see whether or not Clark — who may effectively have been the most effective 3-point shooter within the constructing on Saturday — breaks it out with the Fever as soon as she returns.
Within the meantime, she will do loads of celebrating of the Pacers, who took a 125-108 win over New York to achieve their first NBA Finals since 2000. They’ll face the Thunder, with Recreation 1 set for Thursday night time in Oklahoma Metropolis, with the possibility to win their first-ever NBA title.
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The Knicks, who had reached the convention finals for the primary time since 2000, will rue this sequence all summer season.
They blew a 10-point lead within the remaining minute of Recreation 1 and noticed their finest two gamers — Brunson and Karl-Anthony Cities — largely fail to entry their highest degree throughout six video games.
With the season on the road Saturday, the Pacers pulled away within the third quarter with the Knicks struggling defensively all night time and turning the ball over 17 occasions.
The Pacers obtained a 31-point effort from Pascal Siakam, who narrowly beat out Haliburton for MVP of the sequence, with the Indiana level guard scoring 21
