It should be a very interesting offseason for the Indiana Pacers, a team that has plenty of cap room and could very well make a big splash through free agency… or trade.
According to Sean Deveney of The Sporting News, the Pacers have expressed interest in trading for Memphis Grizzlies point guard Mike Conley, whom the Grizzlies also shopped at this past trade deadline.
However, Deveney notes that there would be some obstacles for Indiana in trying to acquire Conley, as the Pacers want to bring back some combination of their free-agent players (both Bojan Bogdanovic and Thaddeus Young are notable Indy free agents) and that Conley's $32.5 million salary for the 2019-20 campaign may complicate that.
If the Pacers let Bogdanovic and Young both walk, they would end up having around $50 million in available cap space to spend this summer, making them a pretty big sleeper club in the free-agent marjet.
Indiana won 48 games and was swept in the first round of the playoffs, but its lack of overall success this season comes with a big caveat, as Victor Oladipo went down with a quad tear in late January and was knocked out for the remainder of the year.
Had Oladipo remained healthy, we don't really know just how far the Pacers may have gotten in the playoffs, as they unquestionably looked like one of the Eastern Conference's elite teams when Oladipo was in the lineup.
Indiana has made four consecutive playoff appearances, but has been bounced in the first round all four times.
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