内容摘要：“I have always tried to feel like I was climbing a mountain,” Nicklaus said.

“I have always tried to feel like I was climbing a mountain,” Nicklaus said.

Coach Tom Thibodeau has tried a lineup change, inserting Mitchell Robinson to play alongside Towns in a double-big look. He has gone deeper into his bench than usual in search of the right combinations to slow down a Pacers team that has reached 130 points twice in this series after doing so in Game 7 of the East semifinals last year, when they shot an NBA playoff-record 67.1% from the field in a rout at MSG.The Knicks put themselves in bad positions by committing 17 turnovers in Game 4 that led to 20 points, but they also gave up easy baskets even when their defense was set. It left them with plenty to correct if they wanted to extend their first conference finals appearance since 2000 to a Game 6 in Indiana on Saturday.

“I’ve never known this team to quit,” forward Josh Hart said. “That’s not the character of the guys that we have in the locker room. So obviously our backs are against the wall, but we’re competitors and we’re going to bring it until the series is over.”INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Aaron Nesmith, the Indiana Pacers top defender, left Game 3 against the New York Knicks midway through the third quarter Sunday before returning for part of the fourth.Whether he’ll play Tuesday night in Game 4 is unclear.

Coach Rick Carlisle said he inserted Nesmith because he was cleared to play. But his return didn’t prevent the Pacers from frittering away. Nesmith didn’t look the same after the injury, and Carlisle said he would withhold judgment about Game 4 until he receives more information Monday.

Nesmith landed awkwardly when he jumped to throw a pass into the corner that sailed high and wound up in the seats.

After play stopped, Nesmith remained down briefly before his teammates helped him up and then motioned for the trainers help. He struggled to put weight on the leg, needed assistance to leave the court and went straight to the locker room.on an Iraqi television station and circulated on pro-Iranian social media.

In the past few months, officials from several countries, including the Iraqi foreign minister and deputy prime minister, have confirmed she is alive and being held in Iraq by a Shiite Muslim militant group called Kataeb Hezbollah, according to her sister. The group has not claimed the kidnapping nor have Iraqi officials publicly said which group is responsible.Kataeb Hezbollah’s leader and founder

in 2020 that also killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force and the architect of its military alliances in the region.The group, an ally of Hezbollah in Lebanon, is part of a coalition of Iranian-backed militias that are officially part of Iraq’s armed forces but in practice often act on their own. The U.S. government listed Kataeb Hezbollah as a terrorist organization in 2009.