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Detroit Pistons left in dust on the road by Indiana Pacers in choppy 133-119 loss
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For the second time this month, the Detroit Pistons were unable to overcome a division rival.
The Pistons fell to the Indiana Pacers on the road, 133-119, to fall below .500 (23-24 overall) and conclude their road trip with a 2-3 record. They’ve dropped three consecutive games, after losses to the Cleveland Cavaliers and Orlando Magic, and finished their season series against the Pacers 1-3.
After trailing by 20 midway through the second quarter, the Pistons used a 21-7 run to cut it back to single digits, 66-60, with under two minutes to play until halftime. They never got closer than four the rest of the way, though.
A 9-2 Pistons run, led by Tobias Harris, cut it to six with seven minutes to play in the final period. Two quick Pacers buckets, the second a 3-pointer from Ben Sheppard, extended it back to double digits. Tyrese Haliburton, Pascal Siakam and Myles Turner put the game away late with a trio of 3-pointers that extended Indiana’s lead to 18 with under two minutes to play.
With the game in reach, the Pistons shot just 8-for-23 (34.8%) in the fourth.
Cade Cunningham led the Pistons with 32 points and nine assists on 12-for-22 shooting. Malik Beasley (20 points, 6-for-10 from 3), Harris (19 points), Jalen Duren (14 points, 10 rebounds) and Ausar Thompson (10 points) also scored in double figures.
Siakam (37 points, 15-for-21) led all scorers, and Haliburton added 30 points, eight assists and seven rebounds. Isaiah Stewart was ejected early in the second quarter, following an altercation with Pacers big man Thomas Bryant that led to a flagrant-2.
Beasley rescues Pistons early with 3-point barrage
The NBA hasn’t yet named its competitors in next month’s All-Star weekend 3-point contest in San Francisco. During the first half, Beasley reminded everyone why he deserves a bid.
He provided instant offense off the bench as the Pistons faced an early 16-point deficit, 24-8, midway through the opening quarter. Beasley knocked down four of his six 3s for the night, sparking a 21-11 Pistons run that brought them within six with 46 seconds remaining in the period.
Beasley struck right as the Pacers cooled off. After opening the game shooting 11-for-14 with eight consecutive makes, Haliburton missed an open transition dunk that finally broke Indiana’s momentum.
Beasley knocked down three 3s in a row, sandwiched by a pair of missed free throws by Haliburton, before hitting a fourth 3-pointer with just under two minutes remaining on the clock to cut it to eight, 35-27.
Stewart ejected in second quarter
With 8:45 remaining in the second quarter, Stewart shoved Bryant to the ground with a hard shoulder bump, sending the Pacers center to the floor. Bryant was angry and momentarily had to be held back by teammates as officials reviewed the foul for a flagrant.
The foul was confirmed as a Flagrant-2, making it Stewart’s second technical of the night after he and veteran Pacers forward James Johnson were whistled for techs during the first quarter.
As Stewart exited the game, he energetically pointed two fingers toward the opposite end of the floor, appeared to gesture toward the crowd and popped his jersey to jeering fans sitting near the tunnels. He played just under eight minutes total, finishing with a point and an assist.
It was already a chippy game between the two teams, continuing a rivalry that started last season and heated up this season, particularly during the Pistons’ home loss to the Pacers on Jan. 16, which featured plenty of trash talk from both sides.
Wednesday’s game featured plenty of emotion on both sides as well. Head coach J.B. Bickerstaff, Cunningham and Tim Hardaway Jr. were all whistled for techs for the Pistons, as was Turner for Indiana.
Next up: Mavericks
Matchup: Pistons (23-24) vs. Dallas (25-22).
Tipoff: 7 p.m. Friday; Little Caesars Arena, Detroit.
TV/radio: FanDuel Sports Network Detroit; WXYT-FM (97.1).
Contact Omari Sankofa II at osankofa@freepress.com. Follow him on X @omarisankofa.
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'Endangers public safety'| Indiana AG files case against Dearborn Co. EMS service, says group failed community
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DILLSBORO, Ind. — In 2021, the Dillsboro Emergency Ambulance Unit’s response rate to calls for emergency services was 30.82%. In 2022 it dropped to 20.79% and bottomed out at just 12% in 2023.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita said those numbers endanger public safety and that it has “become apparent that DEAU is no longer able to fulfill its mission to the Town of Dillsboro and other communities in Dearborn County.”
Rokita’s office filed a complaint in Dearborn County Superior Court Friday calling for the dissolution of the nonprofit volunteer corporation and the appointment of a receiver to oversee the wind-down process.
This action comes nearly a year after Dearborn County terminated its contract with the group due to falling response rates and concerns over governance. DEAU has not provided emergency services to the Dillsboro or surrounding areas since then, the complaint reads.
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EMS service for Indiana town hasn’t made a run since March 2024
WCPO first reported on the community’s EMS struggles in August 2023. In the first six months of 2023, Dillsboro’s ambulance unit didn’t have a crew available for about 120 emergency runs — including reports of traumatic injuries and strokes, according to Dearborn County 911 records.
911 records showed the unit responded to about one out of five emergency calls in the town.
In a 2023 interview with the WCPO I-Team, DEAU co-captains Bev Tackett and Harry Witteride said that the unit lost half its members, including EMTssince the start of the pandemic. They’d also seen a dramatic cut in revenue and can’t keep up with growing demand.
In a June 2024 interview, Dearborn County Commissioner Jim Thatcher said after the I-Team’s initial stories, the Dillsboro unit responded to even fewer emergencies.
So, in May 2024, two months after the previous contract expired, the county offered the unit a new contract that promised continued funding if the unit met response benchmarks.
The DEAU board rejected the contract and countered with one of their own.
“They proposed a contract with no accountability and asked for more money, and at that point we were at an impasse,” Thatcher said.
That impasse was the straw that broke the camel’s back, Thatcher said. Town and county leaders joined to find a solution, ultimately penning a letter to AG Rokita asking him to step in.
Indiana law allows the Attorney General to seek dissolution of a domestic nonprofit corporation that has misapplied or wasted corporate assets and/or is no longer able to carry out the corporation’s purpose.
“DEAU has been regularly receiving approximately $60,000 per year in public funds to operate, holding fundraisers in the community purporting to raise money to provide emergency services, and taking in payments for ambulance services, while nonprofit assets continued to decrease according to DEAU’s federal 990 tax returns, response rates fell, and without any new contract with the County,” the complaint reads. “From 2016 to 2021, DEAU reported assets decreasing from $1,363,126 to $142,350.”
The DEAU building still stands and the ambulances remain behind glass-paned garage doors, but they haven’t rolled out of the facility since the contract terminated last March. The County has been making supplemental distributions to Dillsboro Fire, Aurora EMS and Moores Hill EMS in exchange for their services to help provide coverage in communities where DEAU used to.
“(Dillsboro EMS) has refused to hand over their assets to the town so that we could restart the EMS service in Dillsboro,” Thatcher said.
Rokita’s office also filed a preliminary injunction on DEAU, asking the court to prevent the non-profit and any of its agents from removing, disposing, selling, or transferring any of the Defendant’s assets, and to allow an expedited inspection of the entire property.
“A preliminary injunction enjoining Defendant and its agents from removing or otherwise disposing of assets during the pendency of this lawsuit is necessary to account for and secure high-cost medical equipment and emergency vehicles so that they can be best used in furtherance of providing emergency services in and around Dillsboro,” the motion reads. “Without a contract to provide emergency services in and around Dillsboro, and without a preliminary injunction halting such actions, Defendant may begin disposing of assets that could otherwise be used to benefit the citizens of Dillsboro and surrounding areas with emergency medical services.”
“My hope is once the 501c is dissolved, then the assets need to be placed with the town or with another 501c, which could be Dillsboro Fire. So the assets could go to either one of those locations,” Thatcher said. “We’ve had some conversations with folks out in Dillsboro and they believe that once this is settled and the assets are placed in the proper hands, that Dillsboro EMS could be up and running within three months.”
WCPO reached out to the DEAU board for comment on the complaint but did not receive a response by the time of this publication.
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Former Indiana Standout Trayce Jackson-Davis Takes Part In NBA All-Star Sunday
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SAN FRANCISCO – Former Indiana University forward Trayce-Jackson Davis got a chance to show off his game to the country on Sunday during NBA All-Star Game festivities at San Francisco’s Chase Center.
Jackson-Davis, who played at Indiana from 2019-23 and who has been with the Golden State Warriors the last two seasons, was not technically an All-Star, but due to the format change in the All-Star Game, he got to take part.
There was not an All-Star Game in the traditional sense. All-Star Sunday featured four teams – one featuring young players against teams featuring established All-Stars. Jackson-Davis and Candace’s Rising Stars had played their way to Sunday’s activities by winning Friday’s Rising Stars Challenge.
Games were played with the first team to score 40 points earning the win.
Jackson-Davis was part of Candace’s Rising Stars, coached by women’s basketball legend Candace Parker. They took on Shaq’s OGs, a team of established stars, coached by Shaquille O’Neal.
One of Jackson-Davis’s teammates on the Rising Stars was his former nemesis at Purdue, Zach Edey, who plays for the Memphis Grizzlies.
Shaq’s OGs defeated Candace’s Rising Stars 41-25. Jackson-Davis played six minutes and made his only shot. He also had an assist and a steal.
Shaq’s OGs would go on to win the All-Star Tournament with a 41-25 victory over Chuck’s Global Stars.
Jackson-Davis and the Rising Stars advanced to the All-Star Game by winning the Rising Stars Challenge on Friday.
Jackson-Davis, playing for Team C, scored six points in Friday’s first game as Team C defeated Team T 40-34.
In Friday’s Rising Stars championship game, with a target score of 25, Team C beat Team G League 25-14. Jackson-Davis did not score in that game.
Jackson-Davis is averaging 7.6 points and 5.9 rebounds for the Warriors. He’s started 37 of the 49 games he’s played in for Golden State, though his minutes have been diminished of late. The Warriors are currently 28-27 and have the 10th and final spot to make the postseason from the Western Conference.
Golden State could be a threat going forward as they acquired veteran star Jimmy Butler just before the NBA trade deadline. The Warriors are 3-1 since they acquired Butler.
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Will UCLA’s Mick Cronin be the next Indiana basketball coach? Here’s what he said
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Indiana basketball can’t take control in final minute in loss vs UCLA
It felt like if the Hoosiers were going to push for March Madness, stacking on a win at Michigan State would be the launching point.
- Mick Cronin may be fed up with UCLA and the issues he faces on the West Coast but playing in the Big Ten. Though his admiration for IU didn’t appear to be strong.
- Cronin is a solid candidate, four years removed from a Final Four, and could bring the core of his roster with him.
- Indiana and UCLA have similar history, and present-day angst trying to get back to national championship contenders.
Mick Cronin got to take a test drive as a coach on the sidelines at Assembly Hall, and he lead his UCLA team to a victory, though not without drama. Two stories programs dreaming of yesteryear to varying degrees met as Indiana basketball hosted the Bruins in a Big Ten Conference game.
One coach, Cronin, seems unhappy with his arrangement, and could very well replace the man who stood on the opposite sideline. In fact, IndyStar columnist Gregg Doyel wrote as much after the Bruins beat Indiana, led by Mike Woodson who is stepping down at season’s end which, for the moment, appears to be a minimum of six games — five regular season and a Big Ten Tournament opener.
Only 15 teams in the 18-team league will descend on the Circle City for the event March 12-16 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. The Hoosiers (15-11, 6-9 Big Ten) are 1 ½ games up on Northwestern and Washington, which are tied for 16th, and three games up on Penn State. But IU’s road could cause them to miss the tournament: vs. Purdue, vs. Penn State, at Washington, at Oregon and vs. Ohio State.
“I just think it’s tough to do that stuff during the season. The whole thing has gotten so crazy, and I don’t like to see that. As far as me, I would never comment on a coaching situation. It would be wildly inappropriate,” Cronin said, while continuing on. “I’m the son of a coach and the way that I look at it, Mike Woodson is the coach at Indiana. He was a national champion and I happen to know him and his staff. I have tremendous respect for their kids and their team. To me, no one should say anything that distracts from what they’re doing. I think it would be wildly inappropriate, mostly because of my respect for coach Woodson. He’s over there coaching his team. That’s my stance.”
Regardless, the Hoosiers will be looking for a new coach with a hope of returning to the glory days. Their last Sweet 16 was in 2016 and they’ve only been to the NCAA tournament twice since, both in Woodson’s first two seasons. IU’s last Elite Eight was in 2002, the year Indiana lost to Maryland in the national championship game.
Indiana is starved for success, longing to win its sixth national championship. It claims fame to the last undefeated national champion, which was 49 years ago. Of course, UCLA has won 11 national championships, including seven straight from 1967 to 1973. Three of those were undefeated seasons, plus another in 1964. And Cronin even led the Bruins to a Final Four four years ago.
The parallels are similar, and Cronin said so Friday.
“To be a great program you have to have great tradition and the backbone of support of all the guys in your tradition that played. I’ve got guys like Kareem [Abdul-Jabbar] and Mike Warren and Jamaal Wilkes, the tremendous support of guys at every game,” he said. “You need tradition, support, your fanbase, and your former players. I don’t know the answer to what’s intact here, but I know my mentality. I walk out and see coach (Bob) Knight like I walk out at my facility and see coach (John) Wooden.”
But UCLA (19-7, 10-5) is in severe financial debt and Cronin has stressed the burden travel has been on his team, and he equated it to NBA teams struggling with similar travel. Friday’s win over IU was this season’s Bruins’ first in the Central or Eastern time zones.
He’s a popular name on hot boards, and is included in IndyStar’s hot board. So, too, was Brad Stevens, the Boston Celtics president who made a statement saying he’s happy in his role. Should athletic director Scott Dolson have Cronin on his list of coaching candidates, here’s what UCLA’s big whistle said about the rumors.
“Some people would be happy because some people want me fired. When you’re a coach, you have to check your ego,” Cronin said. “They booed John Calipari at Kentucky. They wouldn’t have booed Bob Knight, if he walked in here, I can promise you that. That’s just the way it is. I’m well aware that I might be on a board for a job, but somebody might want me to lose my job. We got beat on Tuesday, go ahead and check on those boards.”
A trend of hiring coaches who can bring players with them fits Cronin. It’s a strategy that already worked out for Dolson when he hired Curt Cignetti to lead Indiana football, which made its way to the College Football Playoff with a host of James Madison transfers. Even Cignetti had to deny he was lobbying for someone Saturday.
But Cronin has a winning background: won the Ohio Valley and reached two NCAA tournaments in three seasons at Murray State, made nine straight NCAA tournaments and won two American Athletic Conference regular-season titles at Cincinnati and has continued success at UCLA with the Final Four in his second season and winning the Pac-12 in 2022-23.
Dylan Andrews, who was 1 for 7 from the field and a two-year starter, iced the game with free throws and would fit into that category. Four starters do, too, and reserves in 7-foot-3 post, Aday Mara, and Chicago native Sebastian Mack could give Cronin a core to build around in Bloomington, easing the learning curve and roster management.
“We’re playing at Assembly Hall — you don’t just come to Indiana and win a game like that,” Andrews said. “It was a gritty win. It’s just a credit to my team, to my coach, credit to everybody. This is a big win for us.”
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