Caitlin Clark trolls Jalen Brunson during Pacers playoff beatdown of Knicks

Caitlin Clark wasn’t on the court Saturday night, but whipped out a notable celebration anyway.Clark was sitting courtside along with Fever teammates Lexi Hull and Aliyah Boston as the Pacers eliminated the Knicks in the Eastern Conference Finals, and whipped out Jalen Brunson’s signature 3-point celebration after a Tyrese Haliburton three.Clark is currently out with a quad issue, so she can’t hit the celebration for herself.But she took the chance to celebrate the other team in town and troll the Knicks’ point guard.Brunson has made a bit of a mystery out of the celebration in the past, saying after a 2023 playoff game, “Don’t worry about it,” when ESPN’s Lisa Salters asked why he does it — though he did open up about it to The Post’s Stefan Bondy last year.We’ll see whether Clark — who might well have been the best 3-point shooter in the building on Saturday — breaks it out with the Fever once she returns.In the meantime, she can do plenty of celebrating of the Pacers, who took a 125-108 win over New York to reach their first NBA Finals since 2000.

They’ll face the Thunder, with Game 1 set for Thursday night in Oklahoma City, with the chance to win their first-ever NBA title.Sports+ subscribers: Sign up for Inside the Knicks to get daily newsletter coverage and join Expert Take for insider texts about the series.The Knicks, who had reached the conference finals for the first time since 2000, will rue this series all summer.They blew a 10-point lead in the final minute of Game 1 and saw their best two players — Brunson and Karl-Anthony Towns — largely fail to access their highest level across six games.With the season on the line Saturday, the Pacers pulled away in the third quarter with the Knicks struggling defensively all night and turning the ball over 17 times.The Pacers got a 31-point effort from Pascal Siakam, who narrowly beat out Haliburton for MVP of the series, with the Indiana point guard scoring 21...