Lance Stephenson got the ball with 2:12 left before halftime. He dribbled three times with his right hand, then sent a behind-the-back pass — he practices them hours before each game — to Myles Turner at the top of the arc. Two seconds later, he got it back.
With it on the right arc, Lance went to work.
“I just had a feeling,” he recalled …
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 …
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 …
Through the first ten games, Lance Stephenson’s play was the only true disappointment. Chemistry, defensive play, and late wins will come in time. He clearly wasn’t himself though.
Stephenson went from “too hyped” to stop thinking and focused on rebounding and finding open teammates. That’s where he builds confidence and leads to positive plays on offense.
Playing the sixth man role this season, Stephenson had …
As a new Pacers season gets underway, Nate McMillan plans to use a nine-man rotation.
“My focus will be really a nine-man rotation,” he said entering his second year as Pacers head coach. “Damien [Wilkins] will see some minutes. With Glenn [Robinson III] being out I’ll go to more of a nine (pause) … and a half man rotation.” [laughs]
There are just two starters …
The Pacers are continuing on with two fan sections for all home games at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.
Participants were chosen at a live showcase held last month before the start of training camp.
It’ll be interesting to hear and see if their engagement changes at all with the new lighting setup for Pacers home games. In the lone preseason game, they were easily heard across …
When the Pacers begin training camp Tuesday morning, their first of several two-a-days, Lance Stephenson will not playing with the first group.
He’s one of just six players back from last year’s roster, but the coaching staff believes the team will be best with Lance being a spark off the bench each game as the sixth man.
“Yes, I do [see him as the sixth …
A little more than three months ago, Lance Stephenson was on his couch in Brooklyn rehabbing an ankle injury. He had just come off a part-time, non-guaranteed job — a 10-day contract with the Minnesota Timberwolves.
He began the 2016-17 season with New Orleans. Played six games, needed surgery to repair a torn groin (ouch!), and was waived. Then, he joined Minnesota on a 10-day …