A 24-year-old Indiana man has been charged with allegedly stabbing a man in the back during a fight with two New York Knicks fans at a Carmel, Indiana, brewery during a playoff game between the Knicks and Pacers. 

Per court documents cited by local media, 24-year-old Jarrett Funke of Carmel is charged with three felony counts from the incident. Carmel is a suburb of Indianapolis. 

Per the report, police were initially called to the brewery because of an argument involving Funke during the broadcast of Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals on Friday that the Pacers won, 114-109. One of the alleged victims told police that Funke had “smacked” a Knicks hat off of one of their heads.

Funke yelled “F*** you, you still have a f***ing problem, take this outside,” to the two men, according to one of the alleged victims.

Funke’s father intervened and pulled Funke away in an effort to de-escalate the situation, according to the Indianapolis Star. Funke and his family reportedly left the brewery after being told to leave, and the caller told police that they were no longer needed. 

A brewery employee called the police back minutes later and told them that Funke had returned to the establishment’s patio and confronted the two alleged victims as they were smoking. Per documents, one of the Knicks fans said that he pulled out a knife to deter Funke, then put it back in his pocket, “as he had no intention of using it.”

Funke then allegedly pulled out his own knife and stabbed the man in his back, according to documents. The other Knicks fan attempted to pull Funke off of his friend and cut his leg against the patio’s stoop, according to court documents. Both men were “bleeding profusely,” according to police.

Emergency responders took both men to the hospital, and police pulled Funke over as he attempted to leave the brewery’s parking lot. The stabbing victim suffered a broken rib and a minor tear in a lung, police said, according to News 8 in Indianapolis.

Per the documents, Funke told police that “they were talking s***” and that one of the men had pushed him to the ground and “began punching him in the face.” Funke acknowledged that he “retrieved his pocketknife from his hoodie and swung it around towards (one of the Knicks fans’) back with his right hand,” according to the report. 

Funke told police that the Knicks fans started the fight. Multiple witnesses identified Funke as the “primary aggressor in this incident,” according to the court documents. 

Funke is charged with one count of battery by means of a deadly weapon, one count of battery resulting in serious bodily injury and one count of criminal recklessness committed with a deadly weapon, all felonies, according to the documents. 

An Indiana Pacers fan has been charged with stabbing two supporters of the New York Knicks on the night of their teams’ playoff series.

According to court documents, 24-year-old Jarrett Funke of Hamilton county in Indiana, was charged with battery by means of a deadly weapon, battery resulting in serious bodily injury, and criminal recklessness committed with a deadly weapon.

Officers were called to a brewery in Carmel, Indiana, on the evening of 23 May, when the local NBA team, the Pacers, were playing the Knicks in the Eastern Conference finals at New York’s Madison Square Garden. The Pacers beat the Knicks to take a 2-0 lead in the series.

Funke is said to have knocked the Knicks cap off one of the alleged victims. After Funke was removed from the premises, he is said to have returned and confronted the two alleged victims. One of the men who was stabbed said he showed a knife to Funke but did not intend to use it and put it back in his pocket. An altercation ensued during which Funke allegedly stabbed the two Knicks fans. Court documents said one of the fans had a wound to his back, and the other a laceration on one of his legs.

Funke claims the Knicks fans were “talking shit” and punched and shoved him, before he swung his knife in self-defence. According to court documents, several witnesses say Funke was the aggressor in the situation.

Funke was scheduled to appear at a hearing in Hamilton county on Tuesday afternoon.

The incident is not the first involving friction between Pacers and Knicks fans during the playoffs. A Pacers fan was pelted with garbage near Madison Square Garden after the Knicks’ victory over the Boston Celtics in the previous round.

Harper exits game after being hit by Strider fastball, X-rays negative  originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia

Bryce Harper had a short night Tuesday in the Phillies’ series opener against the Braves at Citizens Bank Park. 

Harper left the game in the first inning after being hit on the right arm by a Spencer Strider fastball. The Phillies later announced that Harper was diagnosed with a right elbow contusion and X-rays taken on him were negative. 

Strider plunked Harper with two outs in the bottom of the first on an 0-1 count. Phillies fans booed him heavily. 

Harper was in immediate, obvious pain and went down to a knee near Kyle Schwarber in the on-deck circle. Edmundo Sosa entered the game in Harper’s place and played third base. Alec Bohm shifted over to first. 

The Phillies began Tuesday with a 34-19 record and MLB’s best winning percentage. Harper has played in every one of the team’s first 54 games, hitting .267 with eight home runs and 33 RBIs. 

This story will be updated when more information is available. 

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INDIANAPOLIS — Ask any basketball coach to explain to you, minutes after a heated game wraps up, what exactly just happened out there and why it did, and they’re probably going to tell you they won’t know for sure until they go back and watch the film. Until then, all they can do is offer broad generalizations. (Also, spoiler alert: Even after they watch the film, they’re not going to tell you what they saw.)

So it was, as Rick Carlisle sat down at the podium in the interview room at Gainbridge Fieldhouse shortly after Sunday’s final buzzer and fielded a question about why his Indiana Pacers had scored only 42 points in the second half of a fall-from-ahead , as Carlisle and on-court avatar Tyrese Haliburton have repeatedly sought Brunson out to emphasize his defensive weaknesses in hopes of mitigating his overwhelming offensive strengths.

Through three games the Knicks have allowed the Pacers to score 27 points in 23 possessions finished on which Brunson was guarding the pick-and-roll ball-handler, according to Synergy Sports tracking — 1.174 points per possession, a mark that would rank near the very bottom of the league over the course of the full season. And that figure doesn’t account for the countless trips on which Carlisle, Haliburton and Co. have also looked to attack Brunson in other ways: by taking advantage of him as a low man who won’t pose much of a threat as a help defender on drives; by running early drag screens in transition to poke at the Knicks’ hedge-and-recover strategy and see what lanes might open up behind the initial coverage; through multiple-screen possessions that force him to navigate the contact again and again, with the aim of getting him discombobulated and trailing the play, allowing one Pacer to pop free and forcing other Knicks to cover him up.

From there, Indiana’s offense can turn into a game of Whac-A-Mole: knock one down, another pops up, and eventually you’re taking the ball out of the basket.

“I think it’s amplified now, especially against a team like this, where they put you in position to make mistakes,” Hart said at the Knicks’ Sunday shootaround before Game 3. “And if you have one guy that messes up the coverage, one guy that is not communicating, one guy that doesn’t step up, it breaks the whole defense down, and now you’ve got to try to combat that and cover for that. So, a team like this, that’s incredibly talented offensively, you can’t have any lapses. It just takes one domino to fall to just, you know, [make] everything go chaotic.”

When two dominoes fall, the chaos gets compounded — one of the chief reasons why, for all their offensive talents, the Knicks have struggled more than many anticipated in the minutes shared by Brunson and Towns during their first season together:

Brunson and Towns averaged 25.7 minutes together per game during the regular season. That’s gone up to 27.5 throughout the playoffs. In Game 3, though: just 19.

Thibodeau chalked that up mostly to foul trouble: Towns went to the bench for the final 6:10 of the first half after a successful Indiana challenge reversed a Towns and-one on Haliburton into the All-Star big man’s third foul, and Brunson battled whistles for the second time in three games.

“The thing is, you go in with an idea of what you want the rotation to look like, and then the game unfolds,” Thibodeau said during his Monday media availability. “And then, there’s variables that go along with that, whether it be foul trouble or one group gets going, and maybe there’s a need for something else. So you always prioritize winning. Put the team first. But the majority of the time, those guys are gonna finish together. They’ve played a lot of minutes together, and that’s the way we approach it.”

Towns struggled mightily when the Pacers hunted him in Game 2, contributing to Thibodeau’s decisions both to leave him on the bench for much of the fourth quarter and to shake up his starting five for Game 3, inserting Robinson to insulate Towns and ensure New York maintained paint protection even if Towns got out of position. Towns largely held his own when playing at the 5 in the fourth quarter of Game 3, though, staying poised, executing the coverage and not committing breakdowns that Indiana could exploit.

The time will come, perhaps as soon as Tuesday’s Game 4, where Brunson will have to stand his ground, too. He’s proven at times to be capable of doing it — chiefly in Round 2 against Boston, battling and holding his own when switched onto bigger wings like Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. Expect the Pacers to show a renewed level of intention and aggression in forcing him to prove he can do it against them — especially after feeling like they too often let New York off the hook in Game 3.

“No, it was poor,” Carlisle said of Indiana’s second-half offensive process during his Monday media availability at the Pacers’ practice facility. “I mean, it has to be a lot better. I’m not going to get into specifics about it, but it was not good.”

To a man, the Pacers attributed their underwhelming second half — just 42 points on 14-for-38 shooting, 2 of 12 from 3-point range, with as many turnovers as assists (eight) and zero fast-break points in the fourth — to an overall stagnation of their offensive approach. On one hand, more intentionally hunting Brunson could create more of the kinds of breakdowns that open up swing-swing passing sequences to generate open shots and inject some pace and life back into Indiana’s attack.

On the other, though, repeatedly mismatch-hunting to attack Brunson in isolation could further sap some of the verve from Indiana’s offense — the Pacers are throwing 60 fewer passes per game against New York than they did through the first two rounds — and maybe even add to the overall sluggishness.

“I feel like if we try to matchup-hunt too much, our offense can get stagnant — I think it did a little bit [in Game 3],” Pacers reserve guard T.J. McConnell said Monday. “We’ve just got to be who we are, both offensively and defensively, be more solid on both ends, and get out and run. Because the matchup hunting can make us a little stagnant.”

While the Pacers try to strike the right balance for their offense, the Knicks will try to strike theirs: how much to lean into better defensive personnel at the risk of minimizing Brunson versus how much to trust their offensive leader to stand up and be counted on at the other end of the court. New York’s point guard knows another massive test is coming; now, he and his teammates just have to be equal to the challenge.

“I mean, it’s competition. It’s the playoffs,” Brunson said Monday. “In order to go through and do something special, you have to go through a lot of adversity. You have to go through a lot of questioning, mentally and internally, if we’re going to do this. It can make or break teams when you’re going through things like that, and I think, obviously, what we did [in Game 3] definitely helps us.”

INDIANAPOLIS — Ask any basketball coach to explain to you, minutes after a heated game wraps up, what exactly just happened out there and why it did, and they’re probably going to tell you they won’t know for sure until they go back and watch the film. Until then, all they can do is offer broad generalizations. (Also, spoiler alert: Even after they watch the film, they’re not going to tell you what they saw.)

So it was, as Rick Carlisle sat down at the podium in the interview room at Gainbridge Fieldhouse shortly after Sunday’s final buzzer and fielded a question about why his Indiana Pacers had scored only 42 points in the second half of a fall-from-ahead , as Carlisle and on-court avatar Tyrese Haliburton have repeatedly sought Brunson out to emphasize his defensive weaknesses in hopes of mitigating his overwhelming offensive strengths.

Through three games the Knicks have allowed the Pacers to score 27 points in 23 possessions finished on which Brunson was guarding the pick-and-roll ball-handler, according to Synergy Sports tracking — 1.174 points per possession, a mark that would rank near the very bottom of the league over the course of the full season. And that figure doesn’t account for the countless trips on which Carlisle, Haliburton and Co. have also looked to attack Brunson in other ways: by taking advantage of him as a low man who won’t pose much of a threat as a help defender on drives; by running early drag screens in transition to poke at the Knicks’ hedge-and-recover strategy and see what lanes might open up behind the initial coverage; through multiple-screen possessions that force him to navigate the contact again and again, with the aim of getting him discombobulated and trailing the play, allowing one Pacer to pop free and forcing other Knicks to cover him up.

From there, Indiana’s offense can turn into a game of Whac-A-Mole: knock one down, another pops up, and eventually you’re taking the ball out of the basket.

“I think it’s amplified now, especially against a team like this, where they put you in position to make mistakes,” Hart said at the Knicks’ Sunday shootaround before Game 3. “And if you have one guy that messes up the coverage, one guy that is not communicating, one guy that doesn’t step up, it breaks the whole defense down, and now you’ve got to try to combat that and cover for that. So, a team like this, that’s incredibly talented offensively, you can’t have any lapses. It just takes one domino to fall to just, you know, [make] everything go chaotic.”

When two dominoes fall, the chaos gets compounded — one of the chief reasons why, for all their offensive talents, the Knicks have struggled more than many anticipated in the minutes shared by Brunson and Towns during their first season together:

Brunson and Towns averaged 25.7 minutes together per game during the regular season. That’s gone up to 27.5 throughout the playoffs. In Game 3, though: just 19.

Thibodeau chalked that up mostly to foul trouble: Towns went to the bench for the final 6:10 of the first half after a successful Indiana challenge reversed a Towns and-one on Haliburton into the All-Star big man’s third foul, and Brunson battled whistles for the second time in three games.

“The thing is, you go in with an idea of what you want the rotation to look like, and then the game unfolds,” Thibodeau said during his Monday media availability. “And then, there’s variables that go along with that, whether it be foul trouble or one group gets going, and maybe there’s a need for something else. So you always prioritize winning. Put the team first. But the majority of the time, those guys are gonna finish together. They’ve played a lot of minutes together, and that’s the way we approach it.”

Towns struggled mightily when the Pacers hunted him in Game 2, contributing to Thibodeau’s decisions both to leave him on the bench for much of the fourth quarter and to shake up his starting five for Game 3, inserting Robinson to insulate Towns and ensure New York maintained paint protection even if Towns got out of position. Towns largely held his own when playing at the 5 in the fourth quarter of Game 3, though, staying poised, executing the coverage and not committing breakdowns that Indiana could exploit.

The time will come, perhaps as soon as Tuesday’s Game 4, where Brunson will have to stand his ground, too. He’s proven at times to be capable of doing it — chiefly in Round 2 against Boston, battling and holding his own when switched onto bigger wings like Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. Expect the Pacers to show a renewed level of intention and aggression in forcing him to prove he can do it against them — especially after feeling like they too often let New York off the hook in Game 3.

“No, it was poor,” Carlisle said of Indiana’s second-half offensive process during his Monday media availability at the Pacers’ practice facility. “I mean, it has to be a lot better. I’m not going to get into specifics about it, but it was not good.”

To a man, the Pacers attributed their underwhelming second half — just 42 points on 14-for-38 shooting, 2 of 12 from 3-point range, with as many turnovers as assists (eight) and zero fast-break points in the fourth — to an overall stagnation of their offensive approach. On one hand, more intentionally hunting Brunson could create more of the kinds of breakdowns that open up swing-swing passing sequences to generate open shots and inject some pace and life back into Indiana’s attack.

On the other, though, repeatedly mismatch-hunting to attack Brunson in isolation could further sap some of the verve from Indiana’s offense — the Pacers are throwing 60 fewer passes per game against New York than they did through the first two rounds — and maybe even add to the overall sluggishness.

“I feel like if we try to matchup-hunt too much, our offense can get stagnant — I think it did a little bit [in Game 3],” Pacers reserve guard T.J. McConnell said Monday. “We’ve just got to be who we are, both offensively and defensively, be more solid on both ends, and get out and run. Because the matchup hunting can make us a little stagnant.”

While the Pacers try to strike the right balance for their offense, the Knicks will try to strike theirs: how much to lean into better defensive personnel at the risk of minimizing Brunson versus how much to trust their offensive leader to stand up and be counted on at the other end of the court. New York’s point guard knows another massive test is coming; now, he and his teammates just have to be equal to the challenge.

“I mean, it’s competition. It’s the playoffs,” Brunson said Monday. “In order to go through and do something special, you have to go through a lot of adversity. You have to go through a lot of questioning, mentally and internally, if we’re going to do this. It can make or break teams when you’re going through things like that, and I think, obviously, what we did [in Game 3] definitely helps us.”