Pacers Hold Off Knicks 106-104 and Our Plus Number Cashes

Pacers 106, Knicks 104. Indiana won outright, so the +8.5 never needed a backdoor or a late miracle to hold. Anyone who grabbed the points got paid, and our published pick on Indiana +8.5 is a HIT. The reasoning was that the line had moved too far toward New York. Stripping out home court gave us a fair Knicks margin…