Pacers final score: Hawks escape Pacers 114-111

The losses continue to pile up for the Indiana Pacers in endlessly excruciating ways, extending tonight to a close home loss to the Atlanta Hawks. The Pacers struggled to get stops all night, but still put themselves in position to win late, when a mishandled dribble by Trae Young wound up in the hands of Chris Duarte.

Duarte raced towards the rim in transition down one, but a no call against Kevin Huerter as he pulled on Duarte’s jersey at the basket forced the miss, allowing the Hawks to exhale and walk away with the three-point victory. The lack of call against the rookie (which will likely be rectified by the league’s two-minute report tomorrow) may have very well kept Indiana out of the…