After dropping two close games at home to open the series, the Knicks are slight underdogs in Indy in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals on Sunday night.

Even though the Knicks have to believe that they can come back and win this series, the stats show the Knicks have no chance of coming back to beat the Pacers. If the Knicks were to come back and win the series, they would be doing something that no one in NBA history has ever done before. The Pacers are sitting in a very good spot.

Before coming to Sunday's Indianapolis 500, Austin Pettijohn dressed appropriately — checkered flag shorts and an Indiana Pacers jersey. For the 32-year-old from nearby Franklin, Indiana, it just meshed as it did with so many others in this colorful race-day crowd.

Brunson leads the league with 6.3 dribbles per touch, but it's hard to imagine that changing throughout the rest of the series.

This current iteration of the Indiana Pacers represent the spirit in what the game of basketball was predicated upon when first developed over a century ago. R

Rest will be at a minimum for die-hard fans of the Pacers and IndyCar — especially those in Indianapolis brave enough to attend both events.