The shorthanded Indiana Pacers held off New York 106-104 on Friday to leave the Knicks’ bid for an NBA Cup repeat in tatters. The Knicks won last year’s in-season tournament in what proved a curtain-raiser to their run to a first NBA championship since 1973 . But after coming up short in their bid to erase a 14-point third-quarter deficit, the Knicks fell to 0-2 in Cup play. They are not mathematically eliminated, but in three prior editions of the Cup, no team with two group-stage defeats has reached the knockout rounds. Pascal Siakam scored 19 points to lead a balanced Pacers attack.
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