(1 Jun 2025)
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Indianapolis, Indiana – June 1 2025
1. Mid shot of people playing basketball on an outdoor court in downtown Indianapolis
2. Wide of people playing basketball on an outdoor court in downtown Indianapolis
3. Wide shot of cars driving down a downtown Indianapolis street with a large poster of Pacers on an overpass
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Tim Ransom, Pacers fan:
“It's been 25 years since we've been to this time, and the Pacers is here right now. And I have my Eastern Conference jersey shirt from 25 years ago. So we're ready to go. Go Pacers!”
5. Close up and pan left to right of a large poster of Pacers on an overpass
6. Mid shot of a man and a woman wearing Pacers jerseys looking at their phones
7. Mid shot of Antonio Taylor and two other men playing basketball on an outdoor court in downtown Indianapolis
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Taylor, Pacers fan:
“I felt it around three minutes at the end of the fourth quarter that we're going to the finals. I was right outside of the field house. I was outside. I think the party was outside more than inside. Everybody was into this.”
9. Mid-shot of a sanitation worker cleaning downtown streets in Indianapolis
10. Mid shot of a poster of Pacers player James Johnson hanging in front of a building
12. Mid shot of Rosa Cranston plays basketball with her son on an outdoor court in downtown Indianapolis
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosa Cranston, Pacers fan:
We're just so excited because the Pacers are the underdogs, but they've been playing a good game all season. And Halle is just such a great, he's a star player, but he also plays really well with his team. He's a team player. So it's really amazing to see them doing so well and just the whole city is like booming like we said. Everybody's so excited.”
14. Tilt down from the top of a building with a Pacers sign to people walking on the street
15. Pan left to right from a wide shot of a wall displaying the Pacers basketball team's historic dates
16. Close-up of a sign on the wall reads, "NBA Finalist 2000 Eastern Conference Champions”
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Rob Melillo, Pacers fan:
"25 years ago, I was only three years old, I don't really remember the Pacers playing in the finals. So this is a very unique and special opportunity to a lot of people my age, even older than me, and of course the younger generation as well. It's a great time to be here in Indianapolis, the city's on fire, they're excited for it, between the pacers and the fever, we're like the basketball capital of the world right now."
18. Mid shot of Pacers fans walk down the street in downtown Indianapolis, screaming, "Go, Pacers!"
19. Mid shot of four flags, including Pacers and American flags, wave in the wind downtown Indianapolis
STORYLINE:
Indiana Pacers fans are in a celebratory mood this weekend. For the first time in 25 years, the team will play in the 2025 NBA Conference Finals.
"We're just so excited because the Pacers are the underdogs, but they've been playing well all season," said Rosa Cranston, who moved to Indianapolis from Seattle three years ago.
The Pacers secured their spot in the finals Saturday night by defeating the New York Knicks in six games in the Eastern Conference finals. They will face the Oklahoma City Thunder, from the Western Conference finals, in the NBA Finals.
The Pacers have only reached the NBA Finals once before, in 2000, when they lost to the Los Angeles Lakers.
"This is a very unique and special opportunity for a lot of people my age and older, as well as the younger generation," Melillo said.
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