By CLIFF BRUNTISL Editor Amid all this excitement about the Indiana Pacers, I consider this a good time to offer some perspective. Nearly four years ago, while I was covering the Pacers for The Associated Press, I interviewed team president Larry Bird about how he was dealing with losing, something rarely attached to his name. […]
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By CLIFF BRUNT ISL Editor I attended the Pacers’ press conference announcing the signings of David West and C.J. Watson. While the media surrounded West, I went the other direction and got six minutes one-on-one with coach Frank Vogel. Here are the best quotes from that interview. There will be two bonus pieces of info […]
By CHRIS GOFF ISL Correspondent Roy Hibbert asked the question we all wanted to during the NBA Finals: “Who’s Jesse Williams?” After the annoying drama surrounding the Clippers, many are suggesting Pacers associate head coach Brian Shaw is an unfortunate victim of another quirky NBA offseason. Yet he is still by all accounts a top […]
By CHRIS GOFF ISL Correspondent The Pacers are faced with a number of small decisions and a few big ones this summer as they try to accomplish their related goals of keeping together their core and making the NBA Finals for the second time in franchise history. To keep the payroll from reaching a level […]
By CHRIS GOFF ISL Correspondent Now this is an NBA playoff series. The Indiana Pacers and New York Knicks finished with the best records in the Eastern Conference this year behind Miami, came out nearly even in point differential, they each clawed through the first round in six games, and each team feels getting this […]
By CHRIS GOFF ISL Correspondent So here we go again. For the fifth time, and first since 1996, the Pacers will play the Hawks in the playoffs. Indiana has won twice: 4-2 in 1994 and 3-0 in 1995. How do they match up in this year’s first round? Let’s take a look. SMALL FORWARD: Kyle […]
By CLIFF BRUNT ISL Editor Tyler Hansbrough and Lance Stephenson might have dropped the two biggest assists for the Pacers in their second-round series against Miami. By hammering Dwyane Wade in Game 5, the kind of foul Jeff Foster was famous for, Hansbrough turned Miami into a team that felt it needed to prove its […]
By CHRIS GOFF ISL Correspondent Not since 2004, coming off a 61-win campaign in which Jermaine O’Neal finished third in MVP voting and Ron Artest was named Defensive Player of the Year, have the Indiana Pacers anticipated a season as much as they do this one. Back then, Donnie Walsh said Indy had a legitimate […]
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