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With the NBA offseason approaching, we are hearing about all of the usual suspects as far as teams that will be most involved in the free-agent market. The New York Knicks, Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers will all have substantial cap space this summer, so, naturally, they are all hot topics of discussion […]

Utah Jazz point guard Ricky Rubio is set to be a free agent this summer, and while he certainly isn’t one of the top free agents on the market, he will definitely draw some interest and should be able to help a team next season. But, in a league where traditional point guards are being […]

The 2018-19 NBA season was an up-and-down affair for the Oklahoma City Thunder, featuring MVP-caliber performances from Paul George and Russell Westbrook as well as frustrating inefficiencies and a rather shallow supporting cast. Most notably, however, the season ended in similar fashion: a first-round playoff exit. Oklahoma City had no answer for an unconscious Damian […]

One of the Indiana Pacers’ offseason priorities is re-signing unrestricted free agent power forward Thaddeus Young. The 30-year old Young concluded his third year in Indianapolis. He averaged 12.6 points, 6.5 rebounds, and 2.5 assists per game in the 2018-19 NBA season. He also earned $13.7 million. Young is one of six Pacers whose contracts […]

The Indiana Pacers are coming off a respectable season that featured earning the fifth seed in the Eastern Conference but ended in being swept by the Boston Celtics. Not having Victor Oladipo was obviously going to make it arguably impossible for the Pacers to be able to defeat a talented team like the Celtics, they […]

Entering a contract year, many believed that Bojan Bogdanovic of the Indiana Pacers was primed for a big season. However, few might have predicted that he was going to be this good. In his fifth year in the league, the 6-foot-8 wing was able to put up career-high numbers across the board as he ended […]

Aaron Holiday of the Indiana Pacers looked back on his rookie season, particularly on what he has learned playing at the highest level of basketball. Holiday, the 23rd overall pick of the 2018 NBA Draft, played a total of 50 regular season games for the Pacers. In 12.9 minutes per game, he averaged 5.9 points […]

The Indiana Pacers are in a rather awkward position as a franchise at the moment. Two members of their core play the same position and their lone All-Star is coming off a season-ending injury that will likely neutralize his impact next season when he eventually returns to the lineup. There is a common belief that […]

The pressure will be on the Indiana Pacers to make big moves this summer. They’ve been promoting the fact that they have so much cap space for the free agency in 2019 since trading away former franchise-player Paul George. The fact that the Pacers are projected to have nearly $43 million in salary cap space […]

The Indiana Pacers were one of the most surprising teams this season. Despite losing star guar Victor Oladipo, they still managed to make the playoffs and showed their potential. Now, they will look to build from their decent performance, as they are eyeing to become strong players in free agency this summer. Pacers president of […]

The Indiana Pacers season seemed to hang by a thread when star shooting guard Victor Oladipo went down holding his right knee on Jan. 23 in a game against the Toronto Raptors. When X-rays found that Oladipo had suffered a ruptured quad tendon and would miss the rest of the season, things looked extremely bleak […]

Indiana Pacers head coach Nate McMillan wants his team to play faster and shoot more 3-pointers next season. The Pacers averaged 25.4 3’s per game this season. That was 29th in the NBA. Indiana only made 9.5 3’s per contest. That was also 29th in the league. McMillan: "We were 29th in attempts in 3pt […]

The Indiana Pacers were eliminated early in the playoffs, so they are looking at this offseason as an opportunity to improve their roster. They will have Victor Oladipo back at some point next season, but the front office needs to make sure they surround him with enough talent in order for the team to be […]

The Indiana Pacers had some hard luck this year, as Victor Oladipo was knocked out for the season after suffering a ruptured quadriceps tendon in late January. The Pacers went on to win 48 games and fought the Boston Celtics admirably in the first round of the playoffs, but they ended up getting swept. The […]

The Indiana Pacers saw their 2018-19 campaign come to a disappointing end, as they were swept by the Boston Celtics in the first round of the Eastern Conference Playoffs. Despite that fact, the Pacers had several bright spots along the way, including the emergence of Domantas Sabonis. Sabonis, now 22 years of age, became an […]

Indiana Pacers president Kevin Pritchard will have a few tasks to take care of in this upcoming free agency period. Among them, Bojan Bogdanovic, their best perimeter shooter, who will become an unrestricted free agent on July 1. Pritchard noted Bogdanovic will have a lot of options as a free agent, something he likely gauged […]

Indiana Pacers shooting guard Victor Oladipo suffered a season-ending knee injury back in January. And though he’s still without an official timetable for return, team president Kevin Pritchard says Oladipo is determined to come back as a better player. “In Victor style, he promised he will come back 200-300% better than he was,” Pritchard said […]

The Indiana Pacers appear to be headed for a summer full of difficult decisions. With three starters and their backup backcourt set to become free agents, they are bound to look like a new team. What makes matters even more complicated is that Victor Oladipo is working his way back from a season-ending injury. Considering […]

If the Indiana Pacers add a key free agent or two, they can make huge strides in the 2019-20 NBA season. Granted, this squad could’ve been NBA title contenders had leading scorer Victor Oladipo been around. Seven Pacers’ contracts expired at the end of the season. These include Thaddeus Young, Tyreke Evans, Bojan Bogdanovic, Darren […]

Many NBA franchises seem to believe that they have a realistic chance to sign a star talent in free agency. With only so many high-level free agents to go around, a player like Bojan Bogdanovic is a great realistic option for many teams to pursue. Bogdanovic turned 30 years old in April and is coming […]

Indiana Pacers shooting guard Victor Oladipo is a man on a mission. Most people who suffer a ruptured quad tendon in the knee will approach their rehab slow and keep expectations low for their comeback. Not Oladipo, who says he’s going to be “the best in the league.” The Pacers star also says his right […]

Another regular season has gone by and Kemba Walker is once again sitting at home wondering what could have been. Instead of playing against the best teams in the game in the playoffs, Walker is left to ponder his future in the league months before he officially becomes a free agent in July. When he […]

The Boston Celtics suffered through an identity crisis and constant mood swings all season long, but returning to the postseason, albeit not in the standing they expected, has allowed them to hit the proverbial reset button. Kyrie Irving, who has led the way of this reshuffle that just landed them a sweep of the Indiana […]

Indiana Pacers combo guard Tyreke Evans says his season with the Pacers was “not how I expected it to be.” Evans signed a one-year, $12.4 million deal with the Pacers last summer. The former Rookie of the Year is effective with the ball in his hands and when he’s going downhill. However, with the Pacers […]

The Indiana Pacers got swept by the Boston Celtics in the first round of the playoffs, as the absence of star shooting guard Victor Oladipo was too much for the Pacers to overcome. In the four-game sweep, the Pacers were within striking distance of the Celtics in every fourth quarter. Heck, Indiana actually had a […]

The Boston Celtics were expected to send the Indiana Pacers home while the surging Eastern Conference franchise did that and then some. With the Celtics taking down the shorthanded Pacers in a mere four games, Boston managed to complete the series sweep on Sunday afternoon in Indiana while officially advancing to the next round of […]

The Indiana Pacers have officially been eliminated from the NBA Playoffs after falling to the Boston Celtics four games to none. Nate McMillan knows that this version of the Pacers may have come to an end. According to McMillan in his post-game press conference, the Pacers could look a lot different next season. They have […]

The Boston Celtics had a pretty disappointing regular season, winning just 49 games in spite of many predicting that they would break 60 wins. The Celtics ultimately ended up with the fourth seed in the Eastern Conference standings, two spots below where they were a year ago. However, Boston has gotten off to a great […]

Boston Celtics head coach Brad Stevens wasn’t able to hide his delight for Kyrie Irving, who played a huge role in their Game 3 win over the Indiana Pacers. The Pacers went into the game with the intention of trapping Irving more. However, that didn’t work as Irving continued to make big plays for the […]

Kyrie Irving produces highlights at a rate as high as any other player in the NBA. He might be the most dazzling ball handler in league history and is a wildly creative finisher around the rim, attributes that combined with his elite off-dribble shooting ability make him not just one of the league’s best offensive […]

The Indiana Pacers will be forced to play Game 3 of their first-round series against the Boston Celtics without the presence of Victor Oladipo. Of course, it’s not like Nate McMillan’s team was going to glean anything more than fleeting inspiration from its best player being in attendance on Friday night anyway. Oladipo, sidelined since […]

Indiana Pacers head coach Nate McMillan says the team will trap Boston Celtics star point guard Kyrie Irving more in Game 3 to get the ball out of his hands. Irving was a magician in Game 2. The All-Star guard put up 37 points and willed the Celtics to a comeback win and get a […]

Boston Celtics backup point guard Terry Rozier says Games 1 and 2 against the Indiana Pacers weren’t chippy, a big difference from the Celtics’ first-round series versus the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2018 playoffs. Rozier and Bucks point guard Eric Bledsoe got into it a lot during the 2018 playoffs. So far in this series, […]

Indiana Pacers star Victor Oladipo has received medical clearance from his doctor to travel from Miami and has a flight scheduled to attend Game 3 of the Pacers’ first-round Eastern Conference playoff series against the Boston Celtics on Friday night, according to Scott Agness of The Athletic. Oladipo was knocked out for the season back […]

The Indiana Pacers find themselves down 2-0 after succumbing to the Boston Celtics’ late-game heroics in two straight games games. Larry Bird has watched his former organization give up fourth quarter leads to its first-round opponents in two straight games, something he says comes down to mental toughness. “The main thing is they’ve got to […]

Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart has recently spoken out on the oblique injury he recently sustained, which has kept him out of his team’s playoff run thus far. It appears that Smart was in absolute dire pain when the injury first hit him, going as far as likening it to a Mike Tyson body blow. […]

Boston Celtics big man Al Horford has been dealing with an undisclosed illness. He was originally listed as questionable for Wednesday night’s Game 2 matchup against the Indiana Pacers, but he felt well enough to take the floor. Now, according to an official report from the team, he’s fully recovered. Celtics head coach Brad Stevens […]

Indiana Pacers forward Bojan Bogdanovic believes his team is too good to drop the first two games against the Boston Celtics. Bogdanovic, who scored 23 points in Game 2, weighed in on the Pacers’ two losses to the Celtics at TD Garden in their first-round playoff series, per The Indianapolis Star’s J. Michael. We got […]

Kyrie Irving was impressed by how teammate Terry Rozier has managed to impact the game, despite playing limited minutes off the bench in the Boston Celtics’ first-round series against the Indiana Pacers. The Celtics grabbed a 2-0 lead after notching a 99-91 win on Wednesday, finishing a double-digit comeback to defend their home court at […]