Schedule and 2019-20 Results
Regular Season Records: Indiana 45-28, Miami 44-29
Game 1 on Tuesday, 18 August: Miami wins at Indiana, 113-pts-101
Game 2 on Thursday, 20 August: Miami wins at Indiana, 109-pts-100
Game 3 on Saturday, 22 August: Indiana loses at Miami, 124-pts-115
Game 4 on Monday, 24 August: Indiana loses at Miami, 99-pts-87

SERIES NOTES:

After Game 4: The Miami Heat hosted and defeated the Indiana Pacers 99-pts-87 to complete a 4-games-nil best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series 1437 victory. With the series 1437 win, the Miami Heat improve their best-of-7 NBA playoff series record to 24-11 overall and 9-4 in the Preliminary round. With the series 1437 loss, the Indiana Pacers see their best-of-7 NBA playoff series record fall to 14-18 (with an active six-series losing streak) overall and 5-8 (with an active five-Preliminary round series losing streak) in the Preliminary round. The win order for the victorious Miami Heat in series 1437 was WWWW: Series 1437 thus becomes the 31st NBA Preliminary-round series, the 87th NBA series (all rounds), and the 238th MLB/NBA/NHL series (all rounds) to follow that win order to completion. The Miami sweep of Indiana constitutes the third four-game sweep of the 2020 NBA Preliminary round, and thus the most sweeps in the NBA Preliminary round since the three in the 2015 NBA Preliminary round.

After Game 3: The Miami Heat hosted and defeated the Indiana Pacers 124-pts-115 to take a best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series 1437 lead of 3-games-nil. When leading a best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series 3-games-nil, the Miami Heat have a series record of 6-0 and a Game 4 record of 4-2. When trailing a best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series 3-games-nil, the Indiana Pacers have a series record of 0-3 and a Game 4 record of 1-2. The Indiana Pacers become the 372nd MLB/NBA/NHL team to fall into a three-games-nil hole in a best-of-7 playoff series, and seek to become the sixth MLB/NBA/NHL team to overcome such a deficit with a series win. The Pacers become the 139th NBA team to fall into such a hole in a best-of-7 series, and seek to become the first NBA team to overcome such a deficit with a series win.

After Game 2: The Miami Heat visited and defeated the Indiana Pacers 109-pts-100 to take a best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series 1437 lead of 2-games-nil. When leading a best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series 2-games-nil, the Miami Heat have a series record of 12-0 and a Game 3 record of 6-6. When trailing a best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series 2-games-nil, the Indiana Pacers have a series record of 0-7 and a Game 3 record of 4-3.

After Game 1: The Miami Heat visited and bested the Indiana Pacers 113-pts-101 to take a best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series 1437 lead of 1-game-nil. When leading a best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series 1-game-nil, the Miami Heat have a series record of 15-3 and a Game 2 record of 12-6. When trailing a best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series 1-game-nil, the Indiana Pacers have a series record of 4-12 and a Game 2 record of 9-7. Miami trailed pseudo-host Indiana by six points after the first quarter, but won series 1437 Game 1: In the history of best-of-7 NBA playoff games, road teams down six points after one quarter had a game record of only 28-128 (.179) prior to series 1437 Game 1.

Pre-series assessment: In the 2019-20 NBA regular season, the Indiana Pacers finished one game ahead of the Miami Heat. From 1947 through the 2019 NBA Finals round, when NBA teams led their best-of-7 playoff series opponents by one regular-season game, they have posted a best-of-7 playoff series record of 20-23 (.465) in those series against those opponents. MLB/NBA/NHL best-of-7 playoff series 1437 is the 32nd best-of-7 NBA playoff series for the Indiana Pacers, and the 35th for the Miami Heat. In best-of-7 NBA playoff series, the Indiana Pacers have an all-rounds series record of 14-17 (with an active five-series losing streak), a Preliminary-round series record of 5-7 (with an active four-Preliminary-round-series losing streak), and a Game 1 record of 15-16, while the Miami Heat have an all-rounds series record of 23-11, a Preliminary-round series record of 8-4, and a Game 1 record of 18-16. Series 1437 is the fifth best-of-7 NBA playoff series meeting between the Indiana Pacers and the Miami Heat. Miami won three of the four previous best-of-7 NBA playoff series between these two teams, including the last three such series.