CHICAGO, Ill. — From ages 11 to 18, Kris Wilkes kept close watch of Paul George, who spent his first seven seasons with the Indiana Pacers — Wilkes’ hometown team. Seven years may not be a long time, but it is for a kid like Wilkes, who is just 19 years old.
George is 6-foot-9, Wilkes is 6-foot-8. Neither were spectacular shooters in college, but …
The Pacers’ season ended after seven competitive games with the Cleveland Cavaliers. While in the locker room, still in uniform after Game 7, Victor Oladipo was already thinking about offseason workouts.
So after taking it easy for two weeks, which included a 26th birthday party with his twin and a trip with close friends, now it’s on for the team’s breakout star.
Oladipo’s offseason training …
Cory Joseph will remain with the Pacers for a second season. The Pacers’ point guard exercised his player option for the 2018-19 season, a league source confirmed to VigilantSports.com. It is worth $7.945 million.
If he had declined his option, Joseph would have been able to hit free agency. The trouble for free agents this summer, though, is that there won’t be a lot of …
In the first round of the NBA Playoffs, the Indiana Pacers gave LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers all that they could handle. While the Cavaliers won the series in seven games, Indiana had their chances to win the series and send LeBron home early. With that in mind, it is worth asking whether or not James should consider joining the Pacers should he leave …
The Indiana Pacers’ 2017-18 season ended in dramatic fashion, down to a seventh and final game of a first-round series against the Cleveland Cavaliers, but LeBron James’ sheer brilliance was too much, again.
So with just six players brought back from last year’s roster, the Pacers won 51 games, including the postseason, earned the fifth seed in the Eastern Conference, and was prominently shown on …
It took seven games and a third 40-plus point performance from LeBron James for the Cleveland Cavaliers to finally dispose of the Pacers. But he did it, just like he did the previous four times that he has faced the Pacers in the playoffs over the last seven years – and they’ve almost always been competitive series.
It took a major trial from Cavs coach …
16 minutes after his season came to an end in the biggest game that he’s ever played, Victor Oladipo was already thinking about getting better.
Who needs time off?
“I don’t know how to take time off,” Oladipo said a short while after the Pacers’ 105-101 Game 7 loss in Cleveland. He finished with a team-high 30 points, 12 rebounds, and six assists in 42 …
As the Pacers drew the Cleveland Cavaliers in the first round of the 2018 NBA Playoffs, the Gansey household perked up. It meant Steve and Mike’s teams would square off.
Steve Gansey, 32, just completed his third year as head coach of the Fort Wayne Mad Ants, the Pacers’ G League affiliate. They went 29-21 and finished second of 13 teams in the Eastern Conference.…