Cavs-Pacers Eastern Conference Semifinal Series To Tip Off Sunday

We at least know the day. The top-seeded Cavaliers will face the Pacers for Game 1 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series on Sunday at Rocket Arena.

Everything beyond that remains a mystery — as we don’t yet have a time or know the remainder of the series schedule.

Tipoff and future games will be determined by what happens in other first-round series that have yet to end, a source told Hoops Wire.

But hey, at least we know a little something, and that’s that fans of both teams will have the rest of the week to do some yardwork, run some errands, and of course, incessantly hit refresh on Hoops Wire.

The Cavaliers earned the No. 1 seed courtesy of their 64-18 record. They proved that was no fluke by embarrassing the Heat in the first round, sweeping them in four straight games and outscoring them by a total of 122 points. That includes a 55-point slaughter in Game 4 in Miami.

Meanwhile, the Pacers dispatched of the Bucks in five games, capped by a thriller of a 119-118 comeback overtime victory in Game 5 in Indiana on Tuesday.

“We came out here and we came down here with the right mentality,” Cavs coach Kenny Atkinson told reporters after the sweep was completed. “Our maturity, our leadership, all that stuff we’ve been talking about all year, we don’t seem to have let-downs, and that’s rare. There’s just a connection and a camaraderie, and our leaders send the right message, and everybody kind of follows.”