It’s way too early to draw any conclusions about the Indiana Pacers roster just 14 games into the 2019-2020 season. It’s also premature to call for anyone on the roster to be dealt because they don’t fit – yet. The Pacers are 8-6 despite missing Victor Oladipo for all 14 games, Malcolm Brogdon for the last […]
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 […]
Pacers suffer full system failure late in loss to Pistons – Sumner’s minus-23 finally makes sense
Thinking the Pacers would merge painlessly into a new era after debuting four new starters in last night’s season opener was foolish. I drank the Kool-Aid too. Thad Young, Darren Collison, and Bojan Bogdanovic have been replaced by upgrades, or so we thought. Over time, maybe that will be true. Last night, it wasn’t as the Pistons […]
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 […]
The Pacers and Domas Sabonis have agreed to a four-year contract extension worth $74.9-million, according to reports. With bonuses, Sabonis could earn up to $85-million. There were rumors over the weekend that Sabonis might be dealt prior to today’s 6 p.m. deadline for the extension. That trade never materialized, and now the Pacers roster is set for […]
There is one consequence that ensures an idiot will keep his mouth shut in a situation where he might otherwise spew racial epithets and profanity – the threat he will get his ass kicked. In major league sports, the last time I can remember a player going into the stands to issue a physical counter-measure against a fan […]
Kevin Pritchard can’t run the Pacers basketball operation in the same way as the other 29 guys with his job and win a championship. Many of the other teams can lure Uber-talented free agents with bright lights, branding opportunities, and championship dreams. The Pacers are a small market team without a single NBA title in its 43 seasons. […]
Sports media yammerers love to say NBA championships will always go to teams in major markets. Every offseason we hear it – again and again – as though we’re talking physics. The world is round. Gravity is a constant. The universe is huge. And small market teams cannot win an NBA championship. Nonsense. Here are the 15 […]
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 […]
If you’re looking for hysterics about how the Pacers screwed up by drafting another big, you won’t find it here. Goga Bitadze is coming to the Pacers, and I don’t know what the hell that means. I assume Pacers president Kevin Pritchard and the other big brains in the front office know what they are […]
