The Indiana Pacers have quietly undergone as significant an offseason roster shift as any incumbent playoff team. While there's no consensus on how the Pacers' collection of summer moves affects their ability to compete in the Eastern Conference both now and going forward, general manager Kevin Pritchard clearly believes his team's biggest signing will continue Indiana's ascent up the hierarchy of contention.

Speaking with reporters on Monday for the first time since the moratorium on player movement came to a close, Pritchard called it “one of the best days in franchise history” because the Pacers were able to acquire guard Malcolm Brogdon and lock him up long-term.

“This is one of the best days in this franchises history. We were able to create the cap space and then go after a player we really wanted,” he said, per Tony East of Forbes.

Indiana agreed to send a future first-round pick and two future second-rounders to the Milwaukee Bucks in a sign-and-trade for Brogdon, whose four-year, $85 million deal with the Pacers proved too rich for the Bucks to match. He'll pair with Victor Oladipo in the backcourt to give the Pacers one of the biggest and most dynamic two-way perimeter tandems in the NBA – health provided for both, of course.

Indiana also traded for T.J. Warren on draft night, signed Jeremy Lamb to a three-year, $31.5 million contract, and brought in T.J. McConnell with a two-year, $7 million deal. Together with Malcolm Brogdon, the Pacers' new additions hope to compensate for the loss of stalwarts like Bojan Bogdanovic, Thaddeus Young, and Cory Joseph.