Indiana Pacers coach Rick Carlisle has his team hunting a massive upset in the NBA Finals. It’s not the first time—just ask LeBron James.

Charles Barkley joked about the Knicks' coaching search strategy by making a direct reference to the Pacers' head coach Rick Carlisle.

If the Pacers lose this series, they will look at the Game 4 loss as the one that made the difference, the one that altered the direction of the NBA Finals.

The Indiana Pacers are looking to bounce back from a tough loss in Game 4 against the Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA Finals.

and you're executing a large strategy for an organization. Those are things that have to exist in order to be a sustainably successful team in the NBA.” Pacers coach Rick Carlisle first met ...

Carlisle, the longtime NBA head coach, has received endless praise over the offseason as he's helped lead the Pacers through the Eastern Conference and now to a lead in the NBA Finals over the league's best regular season team. Barkley's only kidding, but with how the Knicks have went about their coaching search, don't put anything past them.

Through it all, it appears that Indiana has all of the ingredients to pull off one of the biggest upsets in NBA Finals history.

Game 1 of Indiana’s first NBA Finals series in 25 years is set for Thursday, June 5, in Oklahoma City. The Pacers will use the series opener to test the Thunder and begin to decipher pressure points in the league’s best defense.

Tyrese Haliburton was hearing the usual comments about lack of aggression after Game 2 and answered with 22 points and 11 assists in Game 3.