Indiana Pacers coach Rick Carlisle recently spoke at a pregame presser ahead of the Pacers' Game 1 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder. When asked about the recent departure of a peer in the profession,

Pacers head coach Rick Carlisle accomplished an NBA Finals feat on Thursday that he previously reached in 2011 with the Mavericks.

The drive between the little upstate New York towns of Lisbon and Ogdensburg, by Rick Carlisle's recollection, would take about eight minutes. In that part of the world, in the St. Lawrence valley just a few miles south of Canada,