Victor Oladipo is always doing something. He’s on his phone as the media enters the locker room postgame. Then, a team staffer wraps an ice bag around both of his knees before Vic talks to the media.
After about 10 minutes of icing — which sometimes includes a few FaceTime calls — he hits the showers.
By that time, a handful of reporters were over …
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Victor Oladipo was in a groove Monday night, and he didn’t even know it.
“No, I was just playing. I had no clue,” Oladipo said after the Pacers’ 121-109 win over the Orlando Magic, the team that selected the IU product second overall in the 2013 NBA Draft.
Oladipo made his first 11 shots and finished with a game-high 26 points. It was his 15th …
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Here are my running thoughts from the Pacers’ 121-109 win over the Orlando Magic Monday night at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.
Victor Oladipo is back – and in the starting lineup – after being sidelined for one game due to a bruised right knee. The injury occurred in their 107-104 win over Toronto Friday night. He was kept out of Saturday’s home loss to Boston (108-98).…
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Kelli Towles is in her 24th year with the Indiana Pacers heading up the community relations department. She is in charge of community outreach, and involving the players to positively impact Central Indiana.
There are NBA initiatives, such as Jr. NBA Week and Hoops For Troops, and then there are dozen of events unique to the Pacers.
Towles and her team — which includes Darnell …
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Victor Oladipo wouldn’t commit to singing the United States’ national anthem before a Pacers game at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, but he isn’t ruling it out.
“Maybe one day, we’ll see,” he said with a big grin.
Oladipo is beloved in Indiana for what he did down in Bloomington while at IU, and for what he has already done in his short time with the Pacers. …
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Here are my running thoughts from the Pacers’ 105-97 win over the Orlando Magic Monday night at the Amway Center
I expect Victor Oladipo to have himself a nice game. He didn’t feel appreciate in Orlando, where he spent his first three seasons, or in Oklahoma City last year. He didn’t feel like they were invested in him – not like the Pacers have been.…
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The Indiana Pacers will need a new home for the summer league play next July.
The Orlando Magic will no longer be hosting teams to Florida, according to Josh Robbins of the Orlando Sentinel, something they had done annually since 2002.
Most of the league, 24 teams in all, spend nearly two weeks in Las Vegas in what has become the official site of summer …
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A lot happens each week with the Pacers and it’s not easy to stay on top of it. Introducing a new weekly feature, Pacers Last Week, which should help keep you up-to-date on all things Pacers.
I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!
Rookie Edmond Sumner made it back to Xavier on Monday to see his former squad beat Rider, 101-75.
A group of 17…
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