After his annual basketball camp concluded, campers ranging from 8 to 16 years old lined up in the cafeteria hallway for one last moment of one-on-one time with Yogi Ferrell. Each camper went through the line, wrapping up with one familiar kid offering a special gift for Yogi: several Sacramento Kings hats, the first Kings…
Three days after signing his first NBA contract, Pacers rookie Alize Johnson gave his mother, Chanelle Johnson, a new car. Johnson is from Williamsport, Pennsylvania and he’s the oldest of eight kids. He has three brothers and four sisters. “When I’m running out there on the floor with that really high motor, it’s because of…
LAS VEGAS — Summer League is Las Vegas was new to everybody with the Pacers, from the coaches to the players and staff. That’s because they’ve annually spent the first week of July down in Orlando. But Orlando Summer League is no more and for the first time 2018, all 30 NBA franchises have an…
Aaron Holiday, the Pacers’ 2018 first-round pick, is officially a member of the team. 10 days after being selected 23rd overall, the UCLA product signed his rookie contract on July 1. The Pacers did not expect Holiday to still be available when they were on the clock. When he was, the last player still in…
Paul George will become an unrestricted free agent on July 1, the first time in his professional career where he’ll be able to select where he plays. He didn’t even crack Rivals’ Top 150 rankings as a senior at Knight High School in 2008. He played two years at Fresno State, and then was drafted 10th…
The Pacers brought in a total of 29 players over a two-week period ahead of the 2018 NBA Draft, set for Thursday, June 21 at 7:30 pm ET on ESPN. The process of bringing players in for pre-draft workouts began later than normal for the Pacers, not until June 7th. Team evaluators spent several weeks on the…
How long has it been since the Pacers’ group finally beat the Robert Mathis-led Colts team? I’ve covered all but two of the 10 games and I don’t remember them ever winning. Mathis’ team has been flat-out dominant. Mathis’ team has been so successful that when he began co-hosting the event with a Pacer —…
One Pacer appeared on ABC’s pre-game coverage of the 2018 NBA Finals. Glenn Robinson III was featured in Jimmy Kimmel’s famous “Mean Tweets” bit where celebrities read mean comments from Twitter on The Jimmy Kimmel Show. Kimmel tweeted out the full length video before Game 1 in Oakland between the Warriors and Cavaliers. This edition of Mean…
