{"id":481911,"date":"2024-04-14T15:38:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T19:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=481911"},"modified":"2024-04-14T15:42:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T19:42:44","slug":"pacers-clinch-playoff-spot-after-157-point-franchise-record-vs-hawks","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/pacers-clinch-playoff-spot-after-157-point-franchise-record-vs-hawks\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers clinch playoff spot after 157-point franchise record vs Hawks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/indiana-pacers\/\">Indiana Pacers<\/a> are heading into the postseason with momentum on their side.<\/p>\n<p>In a dominant performance on Sunday, the Pacers secured a playoff berth with a resounding 157-115 victory over the Atlanta Hawks.<\/p>\n<p>The remarkable point total matched a franchise record for a single game and also solidified their position as the No. 6 seed in the Eastern Conference standings.<\/p>\n<p>Securing a top-6 seed means that the Pacers will bypass the NBA play-in tournament. Myles Turner led the charge in Sunday&#8217;s win with an impressive stat line of 31 points, 12 rebounds, and four blocks.<\/p>\n<p>This playoff qualification marks Indiana&#8217;s first since the 2019-20 season, signaling a return to postseason action for the team.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z5GJOYl_occ?si=iiMeLvDt3C1C6xJn\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indiana Pacers are heading into the postseason with momentum on their side. In a dominant performance on Sunday, the Pacers secured a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":481912,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17176,16971],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[17947,18386],"acf":{"announce":"Indiana will bypass the NBA play-in tournament","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481911"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481918,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481911\/revisions\/481918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481911"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=481911"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=481911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}