Pacers president Kevin Pritchard will utilize cap space to execute a trade that will bring a starting small forward to the team. I believe this because Pritchard used every media opportunity I witnessed or hosted to extoll the virtues of an uneven trade as the best path to bring improvement to a team that is now much closer […]
In the first minutes after reading reports of the Pacers deal sending Paul George to OKC for Victor Oladipo, I was critical on Twitter, “Nothing but good thoughts for @Pacers fans who view the trade with hope and optimism. Wish I shared your rosy outlook.” And I was right. After last night’s utter immolation of […]
Did the Los Angeles Lakers communicate with Paul George or his agent Aaron Mintz in a way that measures up to the NBA’s standard for tampering? I have no idea, but the Pacers believe so. Here is what we do know: Somehow or another Mintz and his client came to the conclusion that George would leave […]
Paul George looked so forward to bolting Indianapolis that he let his destination be known when free agency allowed in the summer of 2018.. The Lakers are where he wants to play, and the Lakers have crept quite close to tampering in letting it be known they covet him. It’s a marriage made in purple […]
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt. — ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Paul George must have been napping in the back of the classroom when funny things Lincoln might have said were discussed. Every time George speaks, he conveys what is best kept hidden. Over the last 48 […]
Gone are Paul George, Jeff Teague, Monte Ellis, Rodney Stuckey, C.J. Miles, Lavoy Allen, Aaron Brooks and Rakeem Christmas. Those players represent roughly 75 points per game, and played more than half the minutes for the Indiana Pacers last year. Replacing them are players both familiar and not so much like Victor Oladipo, Bojan Bodganovich, […]
Brownsburg native Gordon Hayward made it official tonight. He’s going to become a Boston Celtic. Who can blame him? Chasing a trophy in Salt Lake City is a fool’s errand. Hayward knew it, so he’s heading east in the hopes that LeBron can’t get to an eighth straight Eastern Conference Finals. Even John Stockton and […]
Paul George for Victor Oladipo and Domantas Sabonis. That’s the trade the Indiana Pacers and OKC Thunder agreed to late last night. Fans in OKC are thrilled, and all but the delusional in Indiana are deflated. The truth is that neither set of fans should be cranked or despondent because it really doesn’t make any difference. […]
Timing is everything. In the stock market, prices surge and recede based upon all kinds of conditions – some seen and understood by investors, and some not. Get out at the right time, and pay off your house. Wait too long or pull the trigger too soon, and your kids go to work instead of […]
A Leaf blew into Indianapolis during the first round of the NBA Draft as though it’s already Autumn, and time for training camp to start. T.J. Leaf will return to his family’s hometown as he begins what Pacers fans hope is a long and prosperous career. There are some good to great things about T.J. Leaf […]
