The Pacers open their annual rookie/free agent camp one week later than usual. That’s because the Orlando Summer League is no more — as documented here — and they will instead spend two weeks in Las Vegas.
For the first time in league history, all 30 teams will participate in what has become the NBA’s official summer league. (Utah still hosts a four-team league, a …
Thad Young is staying put. The Pacers’ starting power forward will exercise his player option, worth $13.7 million, for the 2018-19 season, a league source confirmed to VigilantSports.com.
That means the Pacers are expected to return their top six scorers: Victor Oladipo, Bojan Bogdanovic, Myles Turner, Domantas Sabonis, Young, and Darren Collison.
Point guard Cory Joseph already exercised his option back in May.
Young averaged …
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 overall by the Pacers in 2010.
George spent his …
In his first season with the Indiana Pacers, guard Victor Oladipo was the recipient of the Most Improved Player award for the 2017-18 season, which he accepted Monday night at the second annual awards show held in Santa Monica, California.
It was clear that he would win the award, but how about this: Oladipo was two first-place votes shy from being the unanimous winner. He …
Victor Oladipo, the prohibitive favorite for the NBA’s Most Improved Player for the 2017-18 season, plans to attend the second annual NBA Awards Show Monday night, league sources told VigilantSports.com.
Oladipo is one of three finalists for the award, along with Houston’s Clint Cappella, and Brooklyn’s Spencer Dinwiddie. It would be a complete stunner if Oladipo, who was already voted Third Team All-NBA and All-Defensive …
Thursday was memorable for Pacers forward Thad Young. He turned 30 years old, so appropriately he spent the day on a yacht down in South Beach with those close to him.
Over the next week, however, Young has an important decision to make. A personal decision, a decision that he’s earned. Thad has a player option due by next Friday (June 29). If he exercises …
Kevin Pritchard continues to seek toughness. He’s focused on adding guys with grit, with fight, and he wants a roster full of players who will bring it all year round.
Late in the second round with several notable names already off the board, including Ohio State’s Keita Bates-Diop just two spots earlier, the Pacers used the 50th overall pick to add Missouri State forward Alize …
The Pacers got their man with the 23rd overall pick in Thursday’s NBA Draft, taking point guard Aaron Holiday out of UCLA. The 6-foot-1 guard not only led the PAC-12 in scoring (20.3 ppg), but he also was named to the Pac-12 All-Defensive Team.
He’s a two-way player, something the Pacers really liked about him.
About 30 minutes after walking across the stage at the …