Indiana Pacers security confiscates Raptors fans’ signs

The Indiana Pacers organization doesn’t seem to care for all the signs the Toronto Raptors fans are bringing into Bankers Life Fieldhouse before Game 3.

With their first round series all tied up at a game apiece before Saturday afternoon’s pivotal Game 3, the No. 7 seeded Indiana Pacers aren’t being the best of hosts to their No. 2 seeded foe in the Toronto Raptors.

While Raptors fans have seemed to travel well for this road game, the Pacers’ security doesn’t like the signage Toronto fans have brought with them from Canada by throwing them away in the trash before entering Bankers Life Fieldhouse.

It’s not like a “We The North” sign is going to offend anybody in attendance for this first-round game in the Eastern Conference Playoffs. Apparently the Bankers Life Fieldhouse staff are arguing that these signs that the many Raptors fans have brought with them obstruct the views of fans in attendance.

While the Bankers Life Fieldhouse security does have a point in that it wants all attendants of Game 3 in Indianapolis to have a good time watching the Pacers/Raptors game on Saturday afternoon, it’s not like the security staff will confiscate anything pro-Pacers a random Hoosier brings into the establishment.

Perhaps it has to do with Game 3 being such a high-stakes game in this No.2 versus No. 7 playoff series and the Indianapolis staff is trying its best to tip the game in Indiana’s favor? Indiana has played in two of the last three Eastern Conference Finals and could very well do so in 2016 should the Pacers upset the Raptors. Toronto has failed to get out of the first round in their last two playoff appearances.

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