{"id":482488,"date":"2024-04-29T03:40:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T07:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482488"},"modified":"2024-04-29T02:49:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T06:49:29","slug":"pacers-beat-short-staffed-bucks-126-113-to-take-3-1-lead","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/pacers-beat-short-staffed-bucks-126-113-to-take-3-1-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers beat short-staffed Bucks 126-113 to take 3-1 lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Myles Turner scored 29 points, while Tyrese Haliburton added 24, propelling the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/indiana-pacers\/\">Indiana Pacers<\/a> to a convincing 126-113 victory over the undermanned <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/milwaukee-bucks\/\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> in Game 4 of their Eastern Conference first-round series held in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>Turner showcased his long-range shooting prowess by sinking seven 3-pointers, contributing significantly to the Pacers&#8217; impressive 51.2 percent shooting from beyond the arc. Overall, Indiana shot 51.7 percent from the field, enabling them to seize a commanding 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven series.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">MYLES TURNER THROWS DOWN THE MASSIVE POSTER \ud83e\udd2f\ud83e\udd2f\ud83e\udd2f<\/p>\n<p>Bucks-Pacers | Game 4 on TNT \ud83c\udf7f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Iej1IJcnns\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Iej1IJcnns<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1784746667016589419?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Despite being listed as questionable due to a nagging back issue just 90 minutes before tipoff, Haliburton delivered a stellar performance, knocking down five 3-pointers to redeem himself from a subpar shooting display in Game 3.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">PACERS BEAT BUCKS TO LEAD SERIES 3-1 \u203c\ufe0f\ud83d\ude31 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QJANQZjeZI\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/QJANQZjeZI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1784757897794031808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The series will now shift back to Milwaukee for Game 5 on Tuesday, with the Pacers holding the upper hand.<\/p>\n<p>For the Bucks, Brook Lopez led the scoring effort with 27 points and nine rebounds, while Khris Middleton contributed 25 points and 10 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the valiant efforts of Malik Beasley, who added 20 points, and the contributions from the Bucks&#8217; supporting cast, including the absence of injured stars Damian Lillard and <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>, Milwaukee found themselves short-handed due to the early ejection of Bobby Portis. Additionally, Lillard aggravated his Achilles injury in Friday&#8217;s game, while Antetokounmpo has been sidelined since sustaining a left calf strain on April 9th.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KV9xmyExaEU?si=f4uKmHviGTwFw6QU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myles Turner scored 29 points, while Tyrese Haliburton added 24, propelling the Indiana Pacers to a convincing 126-113 victory over the undermanned Milwaukee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":482489,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16971,16726],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[18386,17841],"acf":{"announce":"Indiana is one game away from reaching the second round in the playoffs ","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\/482488"}],"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=482488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482491,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482488\/revisions\/482491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482488"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482488"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}