Pacers silence Knicks in Game 7 with historic shooting performance

NEW YORK — The “Let’s go, Knicks!” chants bubbled up from the stairwells long before tip-off, before the plastic bracelets given to each of the 19,812 fans in the building flashed blue and orange in time with music so loud you could feel the vibration in your sternum. The crowd was so rowdy Sunday afternoon for the first Game 7 at Madison Square Garden since 1995 that the floor of the upper deck swayed. The noise crested every time one of the New York Knicks’ battered players hit a three-pointer or grabbed a rebound, yet in the third quarter Myles Turner swore he could hear a pin drop.