Indiana Pacers

Source: Cory Joseph exercises player option for 2018-19 season

Cory Joseph, Pacers

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…

Notes and quotes from the Pacers’ end-of-season press conference

Kevin Pritchard, Nate McMillan, Pacers

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…

LeBron blocks Pacers’ path, ending special season

Victor Oladipo, LeBron James, Pacers, Cleveland Cavaliers, 2018 NBA Playoffs

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…

Victor Oladipo is already thinking about offseason training

Victor Oladipo, David Alexander, Pacers

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…

The sibling rivalry inside Pacers-Cavaliers

Steve Gansey, Mike Gansey, Fort Wayne Mad Ants, G League, Cleveland Cavaliers

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…