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0 -- Postseason series won by the Indiana Pacers when they lost Game 1. The Pacers are 0-11 in series when losing the opener, but are 11-0 when winning Game 1.
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Shaquille O'Neal averaged 26.5 points and 14.5 rebounds a game against the Pacers in the regular season. Allsport
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2 -- Players on the Pacers' roster who have been to the NBA Finals -- Sam Perkins (Seattle in 1996) and Zan Tabak (Houston in 1995). The Lakers have six -- A.C. Green, Ron Harper, Robert Horry, Shaquille O'Neal, John Salley and Brian Shaw.
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3 -- Times a team has won a Game 7 on the road in the NBA Finals -- Washington over Seattle in '78, Boston over Milwaukee in '74 and Boston over Los Angeles in '69. |
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4 -- Players who led the league in scoring and won the NBA title in the same season -- Michael Jordan (six times), George Mikan (twice), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Joe Fulks. |
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5 -- Eastern Conference finals appearances by the Pacers before they finally advanced to their first NBA Finals. Indiana lost in the conference finals in '94, '95, '98 and '99. |
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7 -- Steals by Horry in Game 2 of the 1995 NBA Finals while with Houston, which remains a Finals record. |
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8 -- Coaches who have led two teams to the Finals, including Lakers coach Phil Jackson. This will be Jackson's seventh trip to the Finals -- six with Chicago and now one with Los Angeles. |
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11 -- NBA championships by the Lakers, second only to the Celtics' 16. |
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11-6 -- 2000 postseason records of both the Pacers and Lakers entering the Finals. |
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12 -- Times, since 1967, that the top seeds in each conference made it to the Finals. It has happened four times in the past five years after occurring just eight in the previous 29. |
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13 -- Seasons in Reggie Miller's career. It took Lakers Hall of Famer Jerry West 12 seasons before he won his first NBA championship |
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13-40 -- Indiana's all-time record against Los Angeles. The Pacers have only won four times in 27 games on the Lakers' home floor. |
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18 -- Times the NBA's MVP won the league championship in the same season. The regular-season MVP has been named the Finals MVP 11 times in the same season. |
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19.3 -- Miller's career points per game average against the Lakers. Miller has scored 439 points in 25 career meetings with Los Angeles. |
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28 -- Margin of the Lakers' largest win against Indiana. Los Angeles beat the Pacers 134-106 at the Forum on Nov. 12, 1978. Indiana's largest margin of victory over the Lakers is 27 -- 114-87 in a Jan. 3, 1992 game at the Forum. |
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33 -- O'Neal's single-game scoring high in an NBA Finals game. Shaq averaged 28 points a game in Orlando's four-game sweep by the Rockets in 1995, his lone Finals appearance. |
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34 -- Highest individual scoring game by a Pacer against the Lakers. Both James Edwards (Dec. 26, 1980) and Adrian Dantley (Oct. 19, 1977) put up 34 against Los Angeles for Indiana. |
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37 -- 40-point games in Finals history, 20 of which are by Lakers. |
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58.6 -- Percentage of NBA Finals games won by the home team since 1984 (54 of 92). Twelve of the past 16 champions have held the home-court advantage. |
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66-75 -- The Lakers' all-time record in Finals games. |
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79.7 -- Percentage of Game 1 winners that have went on to win a best-of-seven series since the NBA's inaugural season in 1946-47. This season, 13 of the 14 series winners won Game 1 (Knicks-Heat being the lone exception). |
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105 -- Playoff games in Indiana's NBA history before its first Finals game. |
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122 -- Career postseason wins by Jackson, second only to former Lakers coach Pat Riley (155). |
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128 -- Postseason games by Derrick McKey before his first NBA Finals appearance, which was the most all-time of any player. Terry Cummings (110 games) inherits the dubious distinction. |
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1,679 -- Points scored by West in his Finals career, the most in history. Abdul-Jabbar is second with 1,317. |
