LAS VEGAS — Unless you have a multi-year guaranteed contract, there’s always uncertainty in NBA — and in sports for that matter. And just because you have a guaranteed contract, it doesn’t mean you’ll be where you had planned.
For coaches, they can be fired. For players, they can get moved or waived.
The latter occurred for Pacers forward Alex Poythress, officially on Friday while …
LAS VEGAS — For the second straight summer, Ike Anigbogu is not participating in summer league due to injury. That’s why he was left off the 13-man rookie/free-agent camp roster, as I reported back on June 29th.
The Pacers’ 2017 second-round draft pick (47th overall) sat out of summer league last year in Orlando after tweaking his right knee during his pre-draft workout with the …
LAS VEGAS — With the Pacers’ summer league game Saturday airing on ESPN2, this 13-player squad has appeared on national television as many times as the Pacers did during the 2017-18 regular season.
This time they were on the big stage to open Saturday’s slate of games at the Thomas & Mack Center, and they were coming off a three-point loss to Houston. The Summer …
LAS VEGAS — Al Jefferson quickly found a new employer, but he is having to go overseas. The 33-year-old center has reportedly agreed to a deal with the Xinjiang Flying Tigers of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA).
Their roster last year included American Darius Adams, Andray Blatche, and Zhou Qi of the Houston Rockets.
This comes less than a week after the Pacers officially waived …
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 entry in Vegas – the summer home of the NBA.…
LAS VEGAS — Steve Gansey will continue on as head coach of the Fort Wayne Mad Ants. Gansey and the team reached agreement on a new multi-year contract prior to the tip-off of NBA Summer League in Las Vegas where Gansey is coaching the Pacers’ entry.
His contract with the Mad Ants, the G League affiliate of the Pacers, expired at the end of June. …
LAS VEGAS — Pacers President Kevin Pritchard continues to methodically work to fill his roster for the 2018-19 season. On Friday, just prior to the end of the NBA’s moratorium, free-agent center Kyle O’Quinn reached agreement with the Pacers on a one-year, $4.5 million deal, a league source told VigilantSports.com.
O’Quinn, at 6-foot-10 and 250 pounds, can be expected to fill the role handled by …
While there was constant communication with the Pacers on a potential new deal, Lance Stephenson decided to go west to Los Angeles and team up with LeBron James on the Lakers. Stephenson reached agreement with the Lakers late Sunday, the first day of free agency, on a one-year deal worth $4.5 million, a league source told VigilantSports.com.
Stephenson, who has spent the offseason in Indianapolis …