Back-to-Back’s could prevent the Pacers from making the playoffs

It’s a night like last Saturday in Miami that makes fans realize just how brutal the NBA schedule can be.

The Pacers went into Saturday having played less than 24 hours earlier and they were down their best player, Myles Turner.

After losing to Portland around 9:30 p.m. on Friday, Indiana was forced to do post-game interviews, shower and board the team’s plane for a roughly three-hour flight to Miami. According to Scott Agness of “Vigilant Sports,” they didn’t land in South Beach until 4:00 a.m.

Indiana started the game at a disadvantage but only trailed by five at the end of the first quarter. Somewhere between the mid-second quarter and the beginning of the third, the Pacers seemed to run…