{"id":477978,"date":"2026-01-09T08:27:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=477978"},"modified":"2026-01-09T08:27:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:27:33","slug":"rick-carlisle-earns-1000th-nba-win-after-long-difficult-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/rick-carlisle-earns-1000th-nba-win-after-long-difficult-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Carlisle earns 1,000th NBA win after long, difficult month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1833\" data-end=\"2203\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Rick Carlisle<\/span><\/span> finally reached a historic milestone, earning his <strong data-start=\"1935\" data-end=\"1967\">1,000th NBA coaching victory<\/strong> as the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Indiana Pacers<\/span><\/span> defeated the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Charlotte Hornets<\/span><\/span> <strong data-start=\"2064\" data-end=\"2075\">114-112<\/strong> on Thursday night. Carlisle becomes the <strong data-start=\"2116\" data-end=\"2145\">11th coach in NBA history<\/strong> to reach the mark and the first since Doc Rivers in 2021.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2205\" data-end=\"2522\">The achievement comes after a brutal stretch that included <strong data-start=\"2264\" data-end=\"2286\">13 straight losses<\/strong>, the worst streak in the Pacers\u2019 NBA-era history, and a season heavily impacted by injuries. The win was sealed by <strong data-start=\"2402\" data-end=\"2421\">Pascal Siakam\u2019s<\/strong> late basket and a key steal by <strong data-start=\"2453\" data-end=\"2471\">T.J. McConnell<\/strong>, before Charlotte missed the potential tying shot.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2524\" data-end=\"2830\">\u201cI\u2019m happy for our players,\u201d Carlisle said after the game. \u201cThe last month has been extremely challenging, but this group kept fighting.\u201d An NBA champion with Dallas in 2011, Carlisle now owns a career record of <strong data-start=\"2736\" data-end=\"2765\">1,000 wins and 891 losses<\/strong>, cementing his legacy among the league\u2019s all-time great coaches.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2832\" data-end=\"2902\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Carlisle reaches the 1,000-win milestone after a month of struggles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":376182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-477978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/03\/Indiana-Pacers.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477978"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=477978"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=477978"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=477978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}