The Fort Wayne Mad Ants have continued to build their staff over the last two months since the Pacers purchased the D-League team. Brian Levy was brought on as General Manager on September 9th, the day the organization made the official announcement.
Levy then hired Steve Gansey as head coach, and Gansey on Wednesday filled out his staff with Stephen Graham, Dylan Murphy, Jonah Herscu, …
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San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich will succeed Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski as the head coach of Team USA beginning in 2017. The announcement was made Friday afternoon after conversations over the last few days about who should take over.
Coach K has directed Team USA since 2005 and will seek his third straight Olympic Gold Medal next year in Rio. Then, he’s done.
Popovich, …
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The Indiana Pacers will conclude its preseason slate Thursday night up in Fort Wayne against Cody Zeller and the Charlotte Hornets.
Because it is technically a home game, the Pacers are having to bus a ton of people to Fort Wayne, including the game operations staff, stats crew, Pacemates, dunk team, and an emcee. We’re talking over 70 employees, including the team. Some Pacers officials …
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Jason Gardner is preparing for his second season as head coach of the IUPUI Jaguars. Gardner, Indiana’s Mr. Basketball in 1999 out of North Central High School, went on to have a successful college career at the University of Arizona.
But now he’s back in Indy and looking to raise the profile of the Jaguars men’s basketball program and the entire athletic department. For the …
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Highlights from the 12-minute scrimmage at the Pacers’ annual FanJam:
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Running blog from FanJam with a breakdown of the activities
Video of all five rookie performances, highlighted by Joe Young…
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Pacers 2015 second-round pick Joe Young let his personality shine at FanJam Sunday afternoon when he performed “Watch Me” by Silentó — and got the kids involved in the dance during the rookie show, too.
Watch below:
Young told me afterwards that he didn’t practice at all. It’s just in his personality. Already, he’s becoming one of more popular Pacers. How can you not like …
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The Indiana Pacers hosted their annual FanJam Sunday afternoon, 11 days before the team opens the regular season across the border in Toronto against the Raptors (Oct. 28). It set up nicely because it was a nice pre-game to the Colts and Patriots battling on Sunday Night Football.
The crowd was smaller than in year’s past, but still an engaged, rowdy bunch.
Scrimmage (two six-minute…
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For sports fans in Indianapolis, days like Sunday are special. There’s plenty going on downtown and by nighttime, our great city will be showcased in front of a national audience on Sunday Night Football.
But let’s not skip ahead.
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.: Pacers FanJam
5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.: Colts pregame tailgate and radio show at the Tin Roof
8:30 p.m.: Kickoff at …
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