Why The 2025 Pacers Matter (Even Though they Lost)
This Pacers team gave me hope. Every time helplessness took a hold of my viewership, they fought back and they gave me hope. They defied every odd and gave me a feeling I had been lacking in the past few years of watching basketball. A feeling of absolute wonder. They quite simply made my love for the game a whole lot deeper. This is because they reminded me why I love the sport of basketball. A sport that involves five individuals putting their differences aside, working together on a pristine hardwood floor and attempting to do the impossible and defy destiny. However, the Indiana Pacers impact is actually much deeper than that. They are the people’s champion. We often say in basketball there are no moral victories, but today I encourage you to forget that. You see, right now the world needs to see an underdog win. This is because currently humanity is the biggest underdog. As of today, we face many seemingly insurmountable threats to our lives and livelihood. Take any of our existential problems from the greatest climate catastrophe in our history to the constant global tensions that keep us on the tight rope of a war that might end everything we know and love. It often feels like the worst of us ins snares us far more than the best of us. As if our worst impulses are destined to be our masters. However, this is exactly why the pacers matter. Even though they lost, they represent us and our ability to do better. They serve as a quite beautiful parallel to us, humanity. They are the people’s champion. We all come from situations where we’ve been doubted, looked down upon. And yet, look at us. Still fighting, still getting out of bed every day. As humans, we face probably the biggest task we have ever faced. The task of our moral and physical survival. Not entirely unlike a certain team from Indiana. Like the Indiana Pacers, we often face tasks that seem insurmountable. Yet, we go on to face the day anyway. My point here is that even though things may seem hopeless in the world, and although now more than ever, the end of everything we know seems inevitable at times, whether from a climate we’ve neglected or hatred, global or local, completely suffocating us. We must not give up. You see, even when the Pacers were down against impossible odds, they never compromised their belief in each other. their unique style of play and their belief in themselves as individuals. This is a message I believe humanity needs to hear and something we can learn from this amazing
This video explores why the 2025 Pacers can inspire us, despite losing the championship.
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