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Key to seven-game Eastern Conference playoff series is how Pacers defends against Raptors' DeMar DeRozan and Kyle Lowry.
The seventh-seeded Indiana Pacers (45-37) will try to upset the second-seeded Toronto Raptors (56-26) when their best-of-seven Eastern Conference playoff series begins at 12:30 p.m. Saturday (ESPN) at Air Canada Centre.
Toronto won three of the four regular-season meetings including once in overtime at Indianapolis on March 17.
The key for Indiana is trying to defend Toronto’s All-Star backcourt of Demar DeRozan and Kyle Lowry. In the three games they played against Indiana this season, DeRozan averaged 24.