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Cavaliers Ice Cold Night From Three Proves Costly In Game 1 Loss To Indiana Pacers
As the old saying goes, live by the three and die by the three. The Cleveland Cavaliers died by it during a 121-112 Game 1 loss to the Indiana Pacers.
The top-seeded wine and gold shot a pitiful 23.7% from deep on Sunday. What really killed the Cavaliers, though, was Indiana shooting a blistering 52.8% from beyond the arc. That included role players like Andrew Nembhard and Aaron Nesmith, knocking down nine three pointers combined.
It was a perfect storm for the Pacers to pull off an upset and take a 1-0 series lead in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
Similar to Game 2 of Cleveland’s first round series with the Miami Heat, Donovan Mitchell tried his damnedest to will the Cavs to victory, taking over in the third quarter in particular, where he dropped 12 of his 33 points.
A dazzling comeback effort brought Rocket Arena to life over the final 16 minutes or so of regulation. Mitchell’s heroics left him gassed in the final stanza, though, he and his Cavaliers teammates simply didn’t have enough to finish off what could have been a memorable playoff comeback win.
On a night where the shots weren’t falling, it certainly looked like the Cavaliers were missing All-Star point guard Darius Garland, who was ruled out for a third straight game with a sprained toe.
That left much of the scoring burden to Mitchell and Mobley, who combined for 53 points. Mitchell’s 33 points actually pushed him past the great Michael Jordan for most Game 1s with 30-plus points in NBA history.
Mobley provided a balanced effort in support of Mitchell, with 20 points and 10 boards. Off the bench, Ty Jerome added 21 on what was an inefficient night shooting overall. Jarrett Allen added 12, De’Andre Hunter 11. Still, not a single player made more than two threes, which ultimately told the story of the game.
There was a rare tenseness felt throughout Rocket Area throughout much of the first quarter. Cleveland looked out of sorts early on. There were bad passes that led to turnovers and an offense that thrives on ball movement and everyone getting involved saw too many possessions ending with iso ball.
It didn’t help that the Pacers simply couldn’t miss, shooting 66.7% from the floor and from three in the opening stanza. Trying to keep pace the Cavs shot 12 threes of their own, but made only three of them.
It became pretty clear early on that the Pacers were going to sell out to limit the damage from three, while leaving the paint susceptible to cutters and slashers. Cleveland started taking advantage of that in the second quarter, scoring 22 points in the paint to head to the half with 38 in the painted area.
The taking what they were giving strategy helped reduce the Pacers lead to just six at the break, 64-58. That felt like a win in of itself. The glaring discrepancy continued to be the three-point shooting though, as the Pacers went to the break shooting 60 and 60 from the floor and three.
It was more of the same during most of the third quarter as Indiana built the lead to 12 with about 7 minutes to play in the period. Nothing seemed to be going right for the Cavs. Then Donovan Mitchell happened.
It was actually Mobley who gave Cleveland its first lead since early in the first quarter when they led 8-6, with a hook shot to make the score 85-84. Mitchell stole the show, though, scoring 12 points in the third to ensure his team was within striking distance heading into the fourth.
The final period lived up to the billing of an epic NBA Playoff bout, with both teams exchanging blows throughout the first seven to eight minutes of play. After six lead changes, the Pacers finally settled back in, knocking down some critical shots in the final few minutes to pull away and steal Game 1.
For the first time this postseason, the Cavaliers were punched first. For the first time this postseason, the Cavaliers will play from behind. They’ll look to deliver a counterpunch in what is now a critical Game 2 on Tuesday.
Jeremy Busby is a writer and activist incarcerated in Texas.
A few days before my best friend’s execution date in 2006, prison administrators granted me one last chance to see him in a legal visit. We discussed his concerns about the humaneness of the lethal injection that would kill him. I will never forget his terrified look.
The day of his execution, I paced my cell hoping for the best. Without access to a telephone, my only method to monitor if or how my friend had died was through radio reports from members of the media who were allowed to witness his final breath.
News reports have historically allowed us as a society to monitor our government when it exercises its greatest power: ending a person’s life. But the state of Indiana has decided to inhibit that public access by banning members of the media from attending executions — unless the condemned person chooses to give a reporter a spot that could instead have gone to their relatives or friends. An appellate court upheld the ban this week.
Prison officials in Indiana claim the media ban is mainly about respecting the dignity of the condemned person. But the idea that there could ever be dignity in state-sanctioned killing of a perfectly healthy human is ludicrous within itself. That would be the case even if executioners eschewed cruel and unusual methods. But they don’t, even when the media is watching.
Angel Nieves Diaz continued moving for half an hour after receiving an injection of a drug that was supposed to paralyze him during a Florida execution. It took Arizona officials two hours to kill Joseph R. Wood. He had to be injected with 14 doses beyond the dose that was supposed to cause his death.
It took officials two hours to kill Joseph R. Wood.
Byron Black yelled, “It’s hurting so bad,” five minutes into a botched execution in Tennessee. John Marion Grant began convulsing and vomiting during his execution in Oklahoma. Prison officials had to enter the death chamber multiple times to wipe away and remove the vomit. The entire time, Grant was still breathing. Just last month, Tony Carruthers lay on a Tennessee gurney for more than hour moaning and bleeding as executioners struggled to find a vein. The execution was eventually called off by government officials.
Byron Black yelled, “It’s hurting so bad.”
These are only a few of the botched executions that lack “dignity.” This week, a federal appellate court upheld a decision blocking Alabama from using nitrogen gas to kill Jeffery Lee. Suffocating and asphyxiating on one’s own vomit seemed like a bridge too far.
As a result of the barbarity of these events, it’s not far-fetched to wonder if Indiana officials have an ulterior motive. Perhaps the media ban has nothing to do with preserving the dignity of the condemned and is instead about obstructing government accountability and public oversight.
Executions in this country were once highly public affairs. Often held in town squares, any member of the public could attend. In the 1830s, government officials began to enact laws that made executions private events.
Tony Carruthers laid on a gurney moaning and bleeding as executioners struggled to find a vein.
This was not because 19th century executioners were moved to protect the dignity of the condemned (who were disproportionately Black). It was an effort to halt a growing capital punishment abolitionist movement. A significant number of Americans found the public spectacle disgusting.
The same is occurring today. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, support for capital punishment in America has decreased from 80 percent in 1994 to 52 percent in 2026. This division necessitates transparency — otherwise, the only nongovernment actors able to tell the public the truth are dead.
The “dignity” playbook is a well-worn one that I know well as an incarcerated journalist. As a result of restrictions placed on media access to prisons, prisons have become unjustifiably cruel, less humane and more difficult to monitor. Restricting press freedom erodes human rights and constitutional safeguards and blinds the public to the kinds of cruelty and abuse depicted in HBO’s Oscar-nominated documentary “The Alabama Solution.”
Perhaps the media ban has nothing to do with preserving the dignity of the condemned and is instead about obstructing government accountability and public oversight.
The film was made possible not because officials granted access to outside journalists, but because incarcerated people risked (and endured) severe punishment to document their reality with contraband phones.
It’s not the first time surreptitious reporting methods revealed the real motives behind media restrictions. In 1906, a reporter in Minnesota ignored a ban on media executions and sneaked in to watch a condemned man spend 14 minutes gasping for air before he strangled to death because the rope used to hang him was too long – he hit the floor when dropped and needed to be raised back up.
As appellate judge Candace Jackson-Akiwumi wrote in a dissenting opinion in the Indiana case, “A government exercises its greatest power when it ends a person’s life. As I see it, such severe and irreversible punishment on behalf of ‘the people’ must be observable to comply with the Constitution.”
Lifting the media ban is the only dignified thing Indiana can do, not only for the condemned but also for the people being asked to fund irreversible punishments.
INDIANAPOLIS (WNDU) – Residents in four Indiana counties are being asked to report damage from June 11 storms to help state officials assess the impact and plan recovery efforts.
Residents of Lake, Porter, Huntington and Elkhart counties can contact Indiana 211 by calling 866-211-9966 or visiting the Indiana 211 website to report damage.
The Indiana Department of Homeland Security will use the reports to determine damage estimates and develop the next course of action in the disaster recovery process.
Officials say only residents of Lake, Porter, Huntington and Elkhart counties should use Indiana 211 for June 11 damage reports. Residents in other counties should contact their local emergency manager.
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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The IHSAA baseball state tournament has reached the semi-state round, with the games taking place on Saturday.
Here are the matchups in the semi-state round in each class:
Class 4A
North (Griffith, at Gary Steel Yard)
Game 1 (10:30 a.m. CT): Zionsville vs. Lake Central
Game 2 (12:30 p.m. CT): No. 7 Penn vs. Fort Wayne Snider
The winners will play at 7 p.m. CT. Lake Central is the last team of the group to win the state title, doing so in 2024.
South (Castle; at Braun Stadium, University of Evansville)
Game 1 (10 a.m. CT): No. 3 Evansville North vs. No. 1 Center Grove
Game 2 (1 p.m. CT): No. 10 Bloomington South vs. North Central
The winners will play at 7 p.m. CT. Evansville North made it to state last season, losing to Valparaiso. Center Grove made it to state in 2023, losing to Penn.
Class 3A
North (LaPorte, at Schreiber Field)
Game 1 (10:30 a.m. CT): NorthWood vs. Norwell
Game 2 (12:30 p.m. CT): No. 1 Andrean vs. No. 5 DeKalb
The winners will play at 7 p.m. CT. Andrean won the 3A state title last season, and has won nine state championships.
South (Jasper, at Ruxer Field)
Game 1 (11 a.m. ET): Providence vs. No. 2 Guerin Catholic
Game 2 (2 p.m. ET): No. 4 Gibson Southern vs. No. 8 Cathedral
The winners will play at 8 p.m. ET. Providence is the last team of the group to make the state championship, winning the 2A state title in 2024.
Class 2A
North (Oak Hill)
Game 1 (11 a.m. ET): Lafayette Central Catholic vs. Bluffton
Game 2 (2 p.m. ET): No. 2 Eastbrook vs. Lakeland
The winners will play at 8 p.m. ET. Lafayette Central Catholic made the 1A state championship in 2024, losing to Barr-Reeve.
South (Lawrence Central)
Game 1 (11 a.m. ET): No. 9 University vs. No. 1 Evansville Mater Dei
Game 2 (2 p.m. ET): Heritage Christian vs. Sullivan
The winners will play at 8 p.m. Evansville Mater Dei made it to state last year, losing to Boone Grove.
Class 1A
North (Lafayette Jefferson, at Loeb Stadium)
Game 1 (11 a.m. ET): Fort Wayne Blackhawk Christian vs. North Miami
Game 2 (2 p.m. ET): No. 10 Rossville vs. No. 1 Kouts
The winners will play at 7:30 p.m. ET. Kouts made it to state last year, losing to Lutheran.
South (Mitchell)
Game 1 (11 a.m. ET): Hauser vs. North Daviess
Game 2 (1 p.m. ET): Greenwood Christian vs. No. 4 Northeast Dubois
The winners will play at 7 p.m. ET. Hauser is the last team of the group to make it to state, back in 2005, when it lost to Fort Wayne Blackhawk Christian.
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