Johnny Furphy had the last laugh over fellow Aussie Josh Green as Indiana earned an upset win<\/p>\n
Aussie Johnny Furphy has helped the Indiana Pacers return to the winner’s list for the first time in a month after a nail-biting victory over Josh Green and the Charlotte Hornets.<\/p>\n
In a battle of future Boomers teammates, Furphy had the last laugh over Green, ending Indiana’s 13-game losing streak which stretched all the way back to December 9, 2025.<\/p>\n
The victory also helped Pacers coach Rick Carlisle record his 1000th win in the NBA after being stuck on 999 since their win over Sacramento a month ago.<\/p>\n
Beating Charlotte is a significant win for Indiana, considering the Hornets’ recent improvement which featured a blowout win over the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder.<\/p>\n
It was an otherwise tough day for Aussies in the NBA with Joe Ingles and Tyrese Proctor not hitting the court as their two teams met while Josh Giddey’s Chicago Bulls had their clash with the Miami Heat postponed due to condensation on the court at the United Center.<\/p>\n
NBA BOX SCORE: Indiana Pacers vs Charlotte Hornets<\/a><\/p>\n Johnny Furphy <\/a>got another start for the Indiana Pacers<\/a> in their 114-112 win over the Charlotte Hornets <\/a>at the Spectrum Center.<\/p>\n Furphy played 26 minutes for seven points, going 1-from-3 from the field as well as 1-from-2 from three but 4-from-4 from the free-throw line. He also had six rebounds, two assists, one steal and one block and was a +5 in his minutes.<\/p>\n Josh Green <\/a>played 18 minutes off the bench for the Hornets and hit one triple for three points.<\/p>\n NBA BOX SCORE: Minnesota Timberwolves vs Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a><\/p>\n Joe Ingles <\/a>and Tyrese Proctor <\/a>both received DNP\u00a0Coach’s Decisions as the Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> beat the Cleveland Cavaliers <\/a>131-122 at the Target Center.<\/p>\n Four players had more than 20 points for the Timberwolves.<\/p>\n NBA BOX SCORE: Utah Jazz vs Dallas Mavericks<\/a><\/p>\n Game in progress. Dante Exum<\/a> is sidelined for the rest of the season with injury<\/a>. <\/p>\n NBA\u00a0BOX\u00a0SCORE: Chicago Bulls vs Miami Heat<\/p>\n While Josh Giddey<\/a> is still unable to play due to injury<\/a>, his Chicago Bulls were also unable to take the court, with their game against the Miami Heat at the United Center postponed due to court conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Johnny Furphy had the last laugh over fellow Aussie Josh Green as Indiana earned an upset win Aussie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-401904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}