The final made this bigger than just Mitchell. Indiana won 106-92 with Mitchell at 28, Clark at 22 and 10 assists, Boston at 19, Billings at 14 and Cunningham at 12. Second-chance and fast-break points were nearly even, so those margins do not explain away Indiana's 53.6% shooting or 16 made threes. The box score cannot tell us which New York rotations opened which shots, but it does show that getting Indiana beyond one scorer was not enough. https://statsdmz.nba.com/pdfs/20260811/20260811_NYLIND_book.pdf
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