NBA Playoffs: Pascal Siakams 39 points lead Pacers to the 2 -win against Knicks

The Indiana Pacers are halfway home to play for a difficult to grasp NBA title.

You could rather stay exactly where you are.

Pascal Siakam scored 39 points with a playoff career and the Pacers defeated the New York Knicks 114-109 on Friday evening to take the lead in the final of the Eastern Conference.

Game 3 is on Sunday evening in Indiana, which will rock the Indianapolis 500 all day all day. The Pacers can only hope to be as good as on the go, where they won six games in a row since they fell into Milwaukee in Milwaukee in game 3 of the first round.

“We still have a long way ahead of us and it is only more difficult for us,” said Siakam.

Myles Turner added 16 points and Tyrese Haliburton had 14 points, 11 assists and eight rebounds for the Pacers, who had lost in their only NBA final against the Lakers in 2000.

Siakam ended in one night, nobody else in the top -class Pacers, 15 for 23 for 23.

“Special game,” said Pacers coach Rick Carlisle. “In the first half he was the guy who got us running and brought us through some difficult distances.”

No team lost the first two games at home and returned to win a series in the conference final.

“If you go to the fourth quarter, it is a TIE ball game. We just have to play better games and more competitions,” said Thibodeau.