The Los Angeles Lakers will face the Indiana Pacers in the NBA’s In-Season Tournament championship game and Anthony Davis knows Tyrese Haliburton’s Pacers are a load to deal with.
“They are a good ball club,” Davis said. “We were actually talking about maybe last week that they score a lot of points. A lot of 140s and things like that, 130s. Obviously, the head of the snake is Tyrese, with good role players around him who complement him very well. They are young. They are scrappy. They get out and run, and they play the right way. So it’s going to be a test for our defense, for sure. But it’s going to be an exciting game.”
The Pacers are first in the NBA in points per game. They average 128.4 points. The Lakers, meanwhile, give up 112.0 points. They are 13th in the NBA in points per game allowed. It will be very interesting to see who wins the first-ever NBA Cup, as both teams are good at different things.
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Haliburton is averaging 26.9 points, 4.2 rebounds and 12.1 assists on the season for the Pacers. The 23-year-old is shooting 52.5% from the floor, 44.1% from 3 and 88.4% from the foul line.
Davis, meanwhile, is averaging 22.7 points, 12.7 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 2.7 blocks for the Lakers. The future Hall of Famer is shooting 53.3% from the field, 23.1% from beyond the arc and 83.7% from the free-throw line.
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Both the Lakers and Pacers are undefeated in In-Season Tournament games. The players on the winning team will each get $500,000.
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