The Indiana Pacers head coach is one win away.
Rick Carlisle is on the verge of history.
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He has the Pacers one win away from the franchise’s first ever NBA championship.
All that’s standing in their way is Game 7 against the Oklahoma City Thunder in their building.
Before the game, Carlisle spoke to Dustin Dopirak of the Indianapolis Star and couldn’t shake the image of what he had just seen.
“Rick Carlisle says he saw some open top busses in Oklahoma City that have already been painted for a championship parade and that’s all he’s thinking about right now,” Dopirak reported on X.
“Carlisle said he saw video of this, I should state,” Dopirak made clear.
Could Carlisle use this as motivation before the biggest game in franchise history?
Sure, why not?
“The ol’ THEY’RE ALREADY PLANNING THE PARADE card,” Albert Bree wrote on X.
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