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INDIANAPOLIS -- As one of the NBAs elite teams, the Indiana Pacers have a target on their backs. Joe Sakic Jersey . The Phoenix Suns came out firing in the first half and held the Pacers off in the second to hand Indiana just its second home loss of the season. "This year theyre not the underdogs anymore," Suns forward Channing Frye said. "Teams come out and give it their best shot. For them to expect us to come in and lay down, for any team to lay down, its not going to happen." Goran Dragic had 28 points and seven assists to lead Phoenix to the 102-94 win over the Pacers on Thursday night. Gerald Green and Marcus Morris scored 16 points apiece to help the Suns win their fourth straight game. Markieff Morris, who finished with 15 points, hit a 3-pointer with 2:58 remaining to give the Suns a 98-92 lead and Dragic dunked to give the Suns a 100-94 lead with 44 seconds left to put the game out of reach. The Suns (28-18) seemed to have the game put away by halftime. Dragic scored 21 of the Suns 66 points in the first half -- the most given up by the Pacers (35-10) in a half this season since the Suns scored 62 on Indiana a week ago in a 124-100 win. "We are at our best when we start the game well," Dragic said. "We played an up-tempo game, so I think they were a little bit tired." The Pacers rallied after trailing 66-49 at the break, but never retook the lead. Roy Hibbert had 26 points and David West added 18 for the Pacers, who have lost three of five games. Indiana went on an 8-2 run early in the second half with shots by David West, Paul George, Lance Stephenson and George Hill to get within 70-53. Later, George was fouled on a layup and converted the 3-point play to make it 71-61 with 7:01 left in the third. Miles Plumlee missed a dunk and Hibbert scored on a putback to get Indiana within eight. Frye answered with a basket and then Hibbert scored Indianas next six points to get the Pacers within 73-69. "We came out, got ourselves back in it in the second half with defence, but couldnt get up over the hump," Hibbert said. "They outplayed us." The Pacers got within a point when Hill hit two free throws to make it 91-90 with 4:20 remaining, but Green extended the lead with two free throws. Hill made a layup before Green hit a jumper to put the Suns ahead 95-92 and Markieff Morris 3-pointer to give the Suns a five-point lead. "In the end, that third quarter cost us a little bit," Dragic said. "They came really strong. They made some open shots and that made it a little bit of a different game." It was much different from the way Phoenix played in the first half. They took a lead right away in the first quarter. They went on a 9-0 run early in the game when Dragic tied the game on a layup and later hit a jumper to give the Suns a 6-8 lead. Then Green hit a 3-pointer and another basket to make it 13-6 with 6:24 left in the first quarter. The Suns went on a 15-2 run to close out the first quarter with a 36-19 lead. Stephenson, who left the game in the first quarter after getting hit in the right eye, scored 12 second-quarter points. West added 10, but the Pacers were never able to put together a run or cut into the deficit. Even when George hit a jumper falling out of bounds that went over the corner of the backboard and through the hoop, it didnt matter. Dragic hit a 3-pointer to take back the lead and to give the Suns a 62-45 lead. NOTES: In four halves against the Pacers this season, the Suns have scored 62 points or more in three of them. . Stephenson recorded his fourth triple-double with 14 points, 10 rebounds, and 10 assists. . Hibbert and George become the first Pacers teammates to earn All-Star honours in the same season since Jermaine ONeal and Ron Artest in 2004. Chris Bigras Jersey . Never caused problems. Never raised a ruckus. 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Smith and Iman Shumpert for financial reasons is the best and quickest way to build for the future.But the New York Knicks tried the same strategy just a few years ago and never got close to championship contention, so Jackson will have to do better this summer with the loads of cash hell have for free agency and the high draft pick hell have courtesy of this miserable season.There will be around $25 million to spend and eventually maybe more for a free agent class that could include Marc Gasol, LaMarcus Aldridge and Rajon Rondo, and whatever other players Jackson hopes will focus more on the dollar signs than the standings.Thats for later. For now, there will be losses — a lot of them — across another cold basketball winter in New York.I think our front office will continue to look at what we can do to replace a couple of these guys, but also how were going to build our roster going forward in the short term and in the long term, coach Derek Fisher said. So were not giving up on what were trying to do at this point in terms of this season. I think each move still symbolizes what we need to do in order to try and get better as we build this.Already headed toward what could be the worst season in franchise history, the Knicks traded away two of their best players Monday when they sent Smith and Shumpert to Cleveland in a three-team deal that also included Oklahoma City. That frees them from worrying about Smith picking up his $6.4 million option for next season, or deciding on whether to keep Shumpert, a former first-round pick.New York also waived centre Samuel Dalembert.Losers of 12 in a row and owning an NBA-worst 5-32 record, the Knicks got back nothing thhat will help them now, especially if Carmelo Anthony remains sidelined by his sore left knee. Matt Calvert Jersey. They have fallen behind the Philadelphia 76ers, who were supposed to be a lock for last, and could look more inept than ever the next time they play at Madison Square Garden, a nationally televised game against Houston on Thursday.This wasnt thought to be Jacksons plan in his first full season as president of operations. He talked of being able to contend for the playoffs — not exactly a big boast in an Eastern Conference where five games below .500 currently means a playoff berth.But building for the future outweighs salvaging the present. Jackson always had at least two great players on every one of the NBA-record 11 championship teams that he coached, and he knows for now he only has Anthony, to whom he gave a five-year, $124 million contract last summer.The quest to find another will start at the draft lottery, 30 years after the Knicks won the first one and drafted Patrick Ewing. Then it will heat up July 1, when Jackson will try to persuade players to picture a future in New York while ignoring the present.That plan sounded good six years ago, when the Knicks traded Zach Randolph and Jamal Crawford early in a promising season to set themselves up for a shot at LeBron James in the summer of 2010. They ended up with Amare Stoudemire, whose knees were never the same after that first season and is sidelined again as he nears the expiration of the $100 million deal he signed that summer.That will leave little on the books beyond the roughly $30 million that will be owed to Anthony and Jose Calderon, whom Jackson acquired last summer from Dallas in his first move. With Tyson Chandlers strong season for the Mavericks, that trade looks worse each day.Its how Jackson does next summer that really matters to the Knicks. 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