Tuesday’s NBA champion Denver Nuggets g Pacers Coach gets ame saw Indiana Pacers coach Rick Carlisle dismissed from his team.
With 8:07 left in the third quarter, Pascal Siakam picked up two technical fouls in rapid succession, leading Carlisle to believe that he had been fouled without a call:
According to Tony East of the SI Pacers, Carlisle discussed his expulsion following the game:
“It wasn’t at all what I was seeing out there.” Carlisle remarks of his ejection, “Not one bit.”
Nikola Jokic’s triple-double helped the Nuggets defeat the Pacers 114-109 in the end.
Having 13 rebounds, 10 assists, and 31 points, he recorded his 13th triple-double of the year. He finished with a 3-point shooting percentage of 3 of 4, making two of them with 6.1 seconds remaining to seal Denver’s 114-109 victory over Indiana. One of his three-pointers came late in the first half. He also had just one turnover.
The Pacers are 24-20 on the season and have dropped five of their previous six games.
Due to star Tyrese Haliburton’s absence due to a strained hamstring, the Pacers found themselves in a difficult situation when they faced the Nuggets.
The Pacers guard’s most recent game was a 118-115 defeat over the Portland Trail Blazers on January 19. In his 35 minutes of action, he dished out 17 assists while scoring 21 points. It was Haliburton’s first appearance since he played 13 minutes in a 133-131 victory against the Boston Celtics on January 8. That was the match in which he first pulled his hamstring.
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