{"id":482293,"date":"2024-04-24T00:45:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T04:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482293"},"modified":"2024-04-24T00:45:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T04:45:58","slug":"siakam-notches-37-as-pacers-beat-bucks-125-108-to-tie-the-series","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/siakam-notches-37-as-pacers-beat-bucks-125-108-to-tie-the-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Siakam notches 37 as Pacers beat Bucks 125-108 to tie the series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pascal Siakam finished with 37 points, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/indiana-pacers\/\">Indiana Pacers<\/a> overcame another phenomenal 1st-half scoring show from Damian Lillard to defeat the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/milwaukee-bucks\/\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> 125-108 at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, WI, and even their Eastern Conference 1<sup>st<\/sup>-round postseason matchup at a match apiece.<\/p>\n<p>Pacers ended a 10-match postseason losing streak that started with a Game 7 defeat to the Cavaliers in a 1<sup>st<\/sup>-round matchup in 2018. Indiana was swept by Celtics in 2019 and by Heat the next year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">series evened.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PacersWin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#PacersWin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G9Ioh5yfy4\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/G9Ioh5yfy4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Indiana Pacers (@Pacers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pacers\/status\/1782968165145657524?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Two days after notching all 35 of his points in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half of Milwaukee\u2019s 109-94 Game 1 triumph, Damian had 26 after the 1<sup>st<\/sup> two quarters and finished with 34.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pascal Siakam COOKED in Game 2.<\/p>\n<p>he&#39;s the second player in franchise history to score 35+ points in consecutive playoff games (Reggie Miller). <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gF5JysTaKI\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/gF5JysTaKI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Indiana Pacers (@Pacers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pacers\/status\/1782972799587340448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But this time, his team lost. The guard didn\u2019t get enough help with Milwaukee once again without <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/giannis-antetokounmpo\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/giannis-antetokounmpo\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/giannis-antetokounmpo\/\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a><\/a><\/a> because of a strained left calf.<\/p>\n<p>The Greek superstar hasn\u2019t competed since he was hurt in an April 9 win against Celtics.<\/p>\n<p>The matchup heads to Indianapolis for the next 2 matches from the series, with Game 3 on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Myles Turner notched 22 points, and Andrew Nembhard added 20 for Indiana. Tyrese Haliburton finished with a double-double \u2013 12 points and 12 assists.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p8s3CwEr1QE?si=jOncOnNuRQ_zgDdG\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pascal Siakam finished with 37 points, and the Indiana Pacers overcame another phenomenal 1st-half scoring show from Damian Lillard to defeat the Milwaukee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":482294,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16971,16726,17837],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18386,17841,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Indiana evened the matchup with Milwaukee 1-1.","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\/482293"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482295,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482293\/revisions\/482295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482293"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482293"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}