{"id":41270,"date":"2025-05-12T07:19:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T12:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/nba-playoffs-mathurin-ejected-for-closed-fist-hit-as-pacers-push-cavs-to-brink\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T07:19:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T12:19:02","slug":"nba-playoffs-mathurin-ejected-for-closed-fist-hit-as-pacers-push-cavs-to-brink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/nba-playoffs-mathurin-ejected-for-closed-fist-hit-as-pacers-push-cavs-to-brink\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA playoffs: Mathurin ejected for closed-fist hit as Pacers push Cavs to brink"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Pacers guard ejected in first-quarter of Sunday\u2019s victory<\/li>\n<li>Indiana one game from eliminating East\u2019s No 1 seed<\/li>\n<li>Thunder tie series with Nuggets after strong finish<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Indiana Pacers guard Bennedict Mathurin was ejected in the first quarter of Game 4 on Sunday for hitting the Cleveland Cavaliers\u2019 De\u2019Andre Hunter in the chest with a closed fist.<\/p>\n<p>Even without one of their top scorers, the Pacers tied an NBA playoff record by taking a 41-point half-time lead and rolled past the Cavaliers 129-109 to take a 3-1 lead in this Eastern Conference semifinal series. With Donovan Mitchell missing the second half because of an injured left ankle, the Cavs had no chance to recover.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/may\/12\/nba-playoffs-mathurin-ejected-for-closed-fist-hit-as-pacers-push-cavs-to-brink\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pacers guard ejected in first-quarter of Sunday\u2019s victory Indiana one game from eliminating East\u2019s No 1 seed Thunder tie series with Nuggets after strong finish Indiana Pacers guard Bennedict Mathurin was ejected in the first quarter of Game 4 on Sunday for hitting the Cleveland Cavaliers\u2019 De\u2019Andre Hunter in the chest with a closed fist. &#8230; <a title=\"NBA playoffs: Mathurin ejected for closed-fist hit as Pacers push Cavs to brink\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/nba-playoffs-mathurin-ejected-for-closed-fist-hit-as-pacers-push-cavs-to-brink\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NBA playoffs: Mathurin ejected for closed-fist hit as Pacers push Cavs to brink\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}