Pacers guard Joe Young make his first career start in the NBA Wednesday night in the team’s whipping of the Phoenix Suns, 116-101. The Pacers didn’t know until game day that usual starter Darren Collison would not be available due to personal reasons. Coach Nate McMillan wanted to keep the second unit intact, featuring a…
Here are my running thoughts from the Pacers’ 116-101 win over the Phoenix Suns Wednesday night at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. Despite practicing for the first time in two weeks on Tuesday, the Pacers held Myles Turner out of the lineup. He is close to returning, working out on a basketball floor three times over the last…
Pacers second-year center Domantas Sabonis was invited to play in the Rising Stars Challenge at All-Star Weekend next month. The annual game, held on the Friday (Feb. 16) of All-Star Weekend, showcases the best young players in the NBA. Sabonis, who is averaging 12.3 points and a team-high 8.4 rebounds per game this season, is one…
Victor Oladipo says he hasn’t agreed to participate in the Slam Dunk Contest at All-Star Weekend 2018, set for Feb. 16-18 in Los Angeles. But he is open to competing for the second time. “I don’t know. I don’t know where those rumors came from,” Oladipo said Tuesday when he met with local reporters to…
Victor Oladipo’s phone buzzed Tuesday. It was Pacers President Kevin Pritchard, the executive who orchestrated the move that brought Oladipo and Domantas Sabonis to Indy last summer. He had the honor of alerting Oladipo that he was voted an All-Star reserve by NBA head coaches. For the first time in his five years as a…