It's 35 games into the 2021-22 NBA season, and the Indiana Pacers are running out of time.
At 14-21 to start the season, they are 13th seed in the Eastern Conference, and the only two teams they have a better record than (in the conference) are the Detroit Pistons and Orlando Magic (two teams with clearly no desire to make the playoffs).
The Pacers are only two games behind the Boston Celtics for the tenth seed, which is the final play-in tournament spot, but there are also the Atlanta Hawks and Toronto Raptors in front of them.