Pacers

Of all Stephenson’s stunts last night, his most notable one was blowing into LeBron’s ear late in the game.

Louis C.K. accomplished what the Indiana Pacers couldn’t Monday night—he got rid of LeBron James and the rest of the Miami Heat.

Just like the Indiana Pacers—no one’s there, then they are, and then they disappear again.

Should the Pacers take care of business tonight at the Fieldhouse and advance to the conference finals, it’s tempting to throw Miami’s idiosyncratic Chris ‘Birdman’ Andersen into the villain matrix.

Via @colefarrell: “Walking downtown, I heard an older man refer to the farmers market as ‘that weekly veggie festival.’ I’m into it.”

Pictures are worth a thousand words, but in basketball it’s points that count—Hibbert finished with 28, Stephenson bounced back with 12, and Arenas had zilch.

Said @djindianajones of the Atlanta Hawks’ Shelvin Mack, “Right now we don’t care if u went to butler or pike it’s game 7!!!! #gopacers”

Sadly, that’s not the only shot Hibbert or his teammates took on social media last night. Here’s a sampling of the sporty spice tweeted about them.

The purgatorial Pacers have put their fans through much since March, and tonight we see if they have the bite to climb back and level the series.

Via @TheJennaBee: “My boyfriend is watching wedding shows with me, in case you were looking for real life examples of Stockholm Syndrome.”

And she will let no one leave empty-handed: “Everybody is guaranteed to leave with a dress,” says West.

At stake tonight: possible home-court advantage in the upcoming NBA Playoffs. Who wants it? Who knows?

Taylor, an IU Law School grad and member of the Heat front office, is one of a growing group of female and minority executives in the NBA, whose teams last year employed 44 women as VPs,

About tonight’s match-up against the Heat, via @trehagen, “Friday’s shaping up to be a doozy—I mean, if you think the No. 1 seed means anything.”

Special interests pay handsomely for the chance to put their stamp on Indiana politics. But in 2013, lobbyists themselves spent a comparatively paltry $4,000 on meals, hotel stays, and tickets to events and attractions for individual lawmakers.