Christmas with the Indiana Pacers.
Unfortunately for Indiana fans, they have precious few memories of Christmas games to choose from – and even fewer that were worth celebrating.
The Pacers have played just five Christmas Day games in their history. Once during the franchise’s ABA days. Four times since joining the NBA in 1976.
That’s the fewest for any franchise that’s been in the league every year since the NBA-ABA merger.
Even when the Christmas slate expanded to five-game extravaganzas in 2008, the Pacers found themselves at home for the holidays.
Here’s a history of Indiana’s December 25 contests, ranked in order from the most horrible of holidays to the merriest of Christmases.