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Cleveland Cavaliers vs Indiana Pacers Head-to-Head

Indiana Pacers lead the all-time record 121-118 across 239 recorded meetings.

Matchup fact

The widest margin between these two is 48 points: the Indiana Pacers beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 136-88 on December 10, 1999.

By Stats synced Apr 16, 2026
CLE
118
vs
IND
121
239 meetings
All-time

IND lead 121-118

Recent form

CLE 5-5 over the latest 10

Last meeting

CLE won 117-108 on Apr 5, 2026

Closeness

3 wins separate the teams

Series context

The average winning margin is 9.7 points across decided games.

Recent Games

Last 10 Games
Apr 5, 26
CLE 117-108 IND
CLE
Jan 6, 26
IND 116-120 CLE
CLE
Dec 1, 25
IND 119-135 CLE
CLE
Nov 21, 25
CLE 120-109 IND
CLE
May 13, 25
CLE 105-114 IND
IND
May 11, 25
IND 129-109 CLE
IND
May 9, 25
IND 104-126 CLE
CLE
May 6, 25
CLE 119-120 IND
IND
May 4, 25
CLE 112-121 IND
IND
Apr 13, 25
CLE 118-126 IND
IND
Last Meeting
Apr 5, 2026Final
CLE
117
HOME
IND
108
AWAY
Cavalierswon by9
Cavaliers' 4th straight in this series·Game 239 of all-time series

Matchup context

The latest 10 scored meetings are split 5-5. Indiana Pacers lead the complete decided record 121-118. The 9.7-point average margin is reported separately from both win records.

History span
1976 to 2026
50 seasons
Average margin
9.7 points
Across decided games
Playoff history
20
20 playoff meetings across 4 postseasons

All-Time Record

Win Percentage
118W
121W
CLE
IND
49%51%
Cleveland CavaliersIndiana Pacers
Season Split & Biggest Wins
Regular season vs playoff record, plus each team's largest margin of victory
Regular Season219 games
108
111
Playoffs20 games
10
10
Cleveland Cavaliers Biggest Win
93–61+32
Mar 22, 1994
Indiana Pacers Biggest Win
136–88+48
Dec 10, 1999
Decade Breakdown
Click a decade to filter stats below
Season by Season
Season ↓CLE ↕IND ↕Games ↕
2025–26404
2024–25279
2023–24224
2022–23314
2021–22404
2020–21033
2019–20123
2018–19134
2017–185611
2016–17718

Matchup Insights

Home / Away Split
74-49CLE HOME72-44IND HOME
AWAY
44-72
CLE
AWAY
49-74
IND
Streaks & Momentum
Current Streak
Cleveland Cavaliers: 4 consecutive wins
4
Avg. Margin of Victory
Games decided by 9.7 pts on average
9.7pts
Momentum (Last 10 vs All-Time)
CLE-Neutral
Last 1050%
All-Time49.4%
IND-Neutral
Last 1050%
All-Time50.6%
Last 10 Results
CLE / IND

Advanced Stats

1996-presentBased on 93 of 239 all-time meetings that have play-by-play data

Overtime History

Total OT Games
6
CLE OT Wins
2
IND OT Wins
4
Biggest OT Game
135-130 on Apr 2, 2017 (2OT)

Largest Leads

CLE Biggest Leads
+34pts
Dec 9, 2006
#2:+28 pts·Dec 5, 2008
#3:+27 pts·Apr 6, 2005
IND Biggest Leads
+50pts
Dec 10, 1999
#2:+34 pts·Nov 23, 2010
#3:+32 pts·Jan 24, 2006

Lead Changes

Most in a Game
31
Apr 9, 2010
Average per Game
6.8
per game

Times Tied

Most Ties in a Game
18
Apr 9, 2010
Average Ties per Game
5.8
per game

Attendance Records

Across covered games (1996+)
Highest
20,562
Apr 29, 2018
Lowest
2,720
Mar 3, 2021
Reduced capacity (COVID era)
Average
17,295

Shooting Percentages

Average per game, 1996 to 2023. Every bar uses the same 0 to 100% scale.
FG%
CLE45.5%
IND46.2%
IND +0.7 pp
3P%
CLE33.0%
IND37.4%
IND +4.4 pp
FT%
CLE74.9%
IND76.6%
IND +1.7 pp
TS%
CLE54.2%
IND55.1%
IND +0.9 pp

Top Scorers (1996-present)

Career points, games, and biggest single-game vs this opponent
CLE Top 15 Scorers
CLE top scorers in this matchup (1996-present): total points, games played, average, and best single game
PlayerPtsGAvgBest
LeBron James12734428.946
Zydrunas Ilgauskas5593715.135
Kevin Love5283614.727
Kyrie Irving3901722.937
Shawn Kemp2711320.931
Tristan Thompson254318.225
JR Smith2392210.921
Darius Garland2091316.141
Drew Gooden1971414.123
Andre Miller1961216.327
Wesley Person1941910.220
Collin Sexton1921019.232
Anderson Varejao185228.417
Cedi Osman164179.723
Lamond Murray1471212.325
IND Top 15 Scorers
IND top scorers in this matchup (1996-present): total points, games played, average, and best single game
PlayerPtsGAvgBest
Reggie Miller5623217.629
Danny Granger4542418.938
Myles Turner4063312.327
Paul George4032020.143
Jermaine O'Neal3991822.238
Domantas Sabonis3982615.332
Victor Oladipo3271719.233
Jalen Rose2931915.435
Thaddeus Young2692013.426
Lance Stephenson2602311.322
Darren Collison2271911.925
Rik Smits2121514.126
Dale Davis2022010.121
Jamaal Tinsley2021711.924
Roy Hibbert2001910.520

Biggest Individual Games (1996-present)

Single-game scoring highs in this matchup
46pts
LeBron James
CLEvsIND
Apr 18, 2018
45pts
LeBron James
CLEvsIND
Apr 29, 2018
44pts
LeBron James
CLEvsIND
Apr 25, 2018
43pts
Paul George
INDvsCLE
Apr 2, 2017
41pts
Donovan Mitchell
CLEvsIND
Dec 16, 2022
Free nbadb sourceCC BY-SA 4.01996 to 2023

Rivalry Fingerprint

Focus or tap a row to compare the exact gap. Every value is an average from matched game-level records, not a projection.

Quarter scoring pulse

100 games with complete quarter lines

CLEIND

How they create points

86 games with complete style splits

Selected comparison

Second-chance points: IND +1.5 points86 games

CLE highest-scoring quarter

Q1 · 25.8

IND highest-scoring quarter

Q1 · 25.8

Widest fingerprint gap

IND +1.5 second-chance points

Questions about this record: Cleveland Cavaliers vs Indiana Pacers

What is the Cleveland Cavaliers vs Indiana Pacers NBA playoff record?

The playoff subset contains 20 games: Cleveland Cavaliers have 10 wins and Indiana Pacers have 10. Those games are already included in the complete all-time total.

How do recent Cleveland Cavaliers vs Indiana Pacers results compare with the complete record?

The latest 10 decided meetings are split 5-5. Indiana Pacers lead the complete decided record 121-118. The recent window is a subset of the complete history, so the page reports the two separately.

Methodology & Data Sources

Last updated

Every head-to-head record on SharkBetting is computed from scored game logs. Regular-season and playoff results come from the balldontlie API and historical records cross-checked against basketball-reference.com. All-time records, recent form, postseason splits, margins, streaks, decades, and seasons are calculated from the same listed results. Records without a final score are excluded from decided-game statistics.

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Pre-1996 game scores partially derived from the nbadb dataset by Wyatt Walsh, distributed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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