It is not being an easy year for the current finalists of the best league in the world. With the loss to the New York Knicks, Indiana Pacers are still winless since February 11, just before the All-Star Game in Los Angeles, when they defeated the Brooklyn Nets 110-115
Carlisle’s team has won only nine of the 34 games they have played in 2026 and has the worst winning percentage in the NBA. With 15 wins and 52 losses, they are bottom of the league with 28.8%, a figure that is a far cry from the success achieved in the previous season
They really miss Haliburton
This is the big problem for the Indiana team: the injury to Tyrese Haliburton in the seventh game of the NBA Finals, as well as ruining the previous work and losing the ring in the most cruel way, upset the plans of a club that had found a winning project
The point guard’s Achilles tendon injury hampered the team from the start of the season as they have always been down, winning just one of their first 14 games. Now, with no chance of a postseason for many games, they are trying to finish the year in the best possible way
Possible case of “tanking”?
There are those who say that this streak of consecutive defeats is no coincidence: the Pacers may be exercising, like other franchises, the famous ‘tanking‘: losing a lot of games to finish as low as possible
Teams without options to continue their path beyond the regular season, although the NBA is punishing this type of situation, do this because the lower they are, the better pick they will receive in the draft next June, so once Haliburton is recovered, Indiana could once again put together a team that is a candidate for everything for next season
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