I love watching the Pacers. They beat the Lakers last night to win their 19th game of the season, but winning is only part of the work they have done to win my heart. In the star-driven NBA where brand value often trumps success in the eyes of fans, the Pacers are an anomaly. They excel without […]
The Indiana Pacers are 7-4, having won all seven during their latest eight-game stretch, and no one is talking about them. National media fawns over the crazy numbers posted by James Harden, star-driven teams in LA, and the nonsensical drama that the New York Knicks wear like their jerseys. Local media is so focused upon […]
It’s opening night, so finally we get to see what Pacers president Kevin Pritchard has built. It theory, it’s pretty damn cool. In practice, take your best guess. There is no way to predict how this Indiana Pacers team will gel and compete – especially early in the season. Pritchard is trying to re-invent small […]
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The Indiana Pacers clearly subscribe to the notion that in basketball the whole needs to outweigh the sum of the parts. In a star driven NBA, teams overpay for celebrity. In Indiana, where celebrity is a meaningless measuring stick for people and players, the Pacers target players concerned with winning rather than Instagram followers. So yesterday, when […]