{"id":18691,"date":"2025-05-08T14:04:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T14:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/18691\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T14:04:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T14:04:26","slug":"how-to-watch-nba-playoffs-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/18691\/","title":{"rendered":"How to watch NBA playoffs Game 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damian Lillard is set to return for the Milwaukee Bucks when they try to even their first-round series with the Indiana Pacers Tuesday after the Pacers won decisively to start the 2025 NBA playoffs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/83146928007-usatsi-23105547.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/icon-play-alt-white.svg.svg+xml\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>NBA playoff preview: Who can beat Boston or Cleveland?<\/p>\n<p>Analyzing if the Bucks, Knicks, or Pacers have what it takes to beat Boston or Cleveland in the playoffs<\/p>\n<p>Dame Time couldn&#8217;t wait any longer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/milwaukee-bucks\/15\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> point guard Damian Lillard watched from the bench when the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/indiana-pacers\/11\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Pacers<\/a> took a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/2025\/04\/22\/bucks-pacers-prediction-picks-odds-game-2-tuesday\/83210150007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1-0 lead in their 2025 NBA playoffs series<\/a>. He won&#8217;t be a spectator on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/playoffs\/2025\/04\/22\/damian-lillard-injury-update-bucks-pacers-playoffs\/83210256007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lillard told reporters he will play in Game 2<\/a> when the Bucks look to even this Eastern Conference first-round rematch in Indianapolis. The Pacers, coming off last year&#8217;s first-round win over the Bucks, scored <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/news\/2877037\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a decisive 117-98 win in Game 1 on Saturday<\/a>. The game featured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/bucks\/2025\/04\/19\/damian-lillard-technical-foul-bucks-pacers-playoff-game\/83175505007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a tense exchange of words between Lillard and Indiana point guard Tyrese Haliburton<\/a> at one point, and their matchup will be a notable wrinkle as the series proceeds.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacers knocked the Bucks out of the playoffs in the first round last year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/bucks\/2024\/05\/02\/giannis-antetokounmpo-is-doubtful-for-bucks-game-6-against-pacers\/73539310007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">when Giannis Antetokounmpo missed every game<\/a>. If Lillard plays Tuesday, it will be the first playoff game he and Antetokounmpo have appeared in together since joining forces in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how to watch this pivotal <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/summary\/2877442\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Game 2 between the Milwaukee Bucks and Indiana Pacers<\/a> as 2025 NBA playoffs action continues on Tuesday:<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\">DOC RIVERS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/videos\/sports\/2025\/04\/21\/doc-rivers-talks-about-damian-lillard-pacers-prep-for-game-2\/83198929007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Talks about Damian Lillard, Pacers, prep for Game 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What time is Pacers vs. Bucks?How to watch Bucks vs. Pacers Game 2: Time, TV, live streaming for NBA playoffsDate: Tuesday, April 22Time: 7 p.m. ETLocation: Gainbridge Fieldhouse (Indianapolis)TV: NBA TVStream: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fubo.tv\/stream\/tv\/?irad=343747&amp;irmp=1205322&amp;subId1=USAT&amp;subId2=NCAAM&amp;subId3=2024\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fubo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fubo.tv\/stream\/tv\/?irad=343747&amp;irmp=1205322&amp;subId1=USAT&amp;subId2=NCAAM&amp;subId3=2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"sponsored noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Watch Pacers vs. Bucks with Fubo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Damian Lillard is set to return for the Milwaukee Bucks when they try to even their first-round series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3775],"tags":[59,108,72,7,103,57,56,80,60,111,125,74,107,123,257,97,113,126,2624,112,71,86,102,121,3871,70,85,6,11,62,67,53,68,84,58,61,81,114,34,66,83,256,278,73,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-18691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-bucks","8":"tag-affiliate","9":"tag-antetokounmpo","10":"tag-arts","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-bucks","13":"tag-commerce","14":"tag-contains","15":"tag-contains-commerce-or-affiliate-content","16":"tag-content","17":"tag-damian","18":"tag-damian-lillard","19":"tag-entertainment","20":"tag-giannis","21":"tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","22":"tag-haliburton","23":"tag-in","24":"tag-indiana","25":"tag-indiana-pacers","26":"tag-indianapolis","27":"tag-lillard","28":"tag-local","29":"tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","30":"tag-milwaukee","31":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","32":"tag-milwaukeebucks","33":"tag-national","34":"tag-national-sports","35":"tag-nba","36":"tag-nba-playoffs","37":"tag-neutral","38":"tag-news","39":"tag-now","40":"tag-online","41":"tag-online-video","42":"tag-or","43":"tag-overall","44":"tag-overall-neutral","45":"tag-pacers","46":"tag-playoffs","47":"tag-sports","48":"tag-sports-news","49":"tag-tyrese","50":"tag-tyrese-haliburton","51":"tag-u0026","52":"tag-video"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}