im some kid from toronto but I became a pacers fan after siakam joined since I was a massive fan of his, and I lowkey just wanna say that this team and the fanbase and everything about it have been awesome. love U guys.

When I said the pacers would beat the pistons, many were quick to call me a fool, a buffoon even. One user stated the this posts was "bad juju". Alas what was befallen us, the bucks just lost meaning we are two ahead of any other team below us. On this route we have about an 85% chance to make the conference finals. Put your moneylines in already for the pacers on the conference finals.

Andrew Nembhard is the best looking Canadian ever.

AYOOOOO?!!! PAUSE

ALL MAVS FANS MUST EVACUATE DALLAS! WE WILL ACCEPT ANY FORMER MAVS FANS FOR THE TIME BEING!

Apologies for my naivety, I’m new to being a fan of the NBA. The whole Doncic to Lakers situation has me questioning a few of the rules surrounding trades etc. Can Luka straight up refuse to go? Is that a thing? Or would he just get frozen out by the Mavs GM? Again, apologies for any stupid questions I’m a Brit and still trying to understand things through football comparisons.

Nothing else to add. Wow.

We absolutely love our guys, therefore is no doubt about that, but if this trade tonight doesn't put everything into the "this is a business" perspective, well I don't know what will.

"We can't trade player X, because....."

"We won't trade player X, because....."

This new CBA certainly plays a roll in decisions. The Wolves moved off of KAT to decrease the tax bill.

A big motive of this Doncic trade is the Mavs didn't really want to pay him the super max, which is insane given his talent.

This trade seems like it's set up for other big moves coming (from both LA and Dallas). LA is going to need some sort of front court and they will obviously think they can get Tuner now for peanuts ....

:(

I wish you were the Mavericks GM 😭

With the Knicks loss to the Lakers tonight, the Pacers are 4 games back from the 3 seed. The Knicks have been playing great recently, and 4 games is a lot to overcome. But here’s some reasons to be cautiously optimistic about closing that gap.

1. Over the next 3 games, the Knicks play the Rockets (32-16), the Raptors (15-33), and the Celtics (34-15). The Pacers play the Jazz (11-36), Blazers (19-29), and Clippers (28-20). The Pacers have a slightly easier 3 game slate, and, for the first time in recent memory, they are really winning most of their games against opponents with bad records.

2. The Knicks and Pacers have a head to head matchup on 2/11, in Indy.

3. To this point in the season, the Knicks have played 5 more home games than the Pacers.

4. The Knicks arguably have more star power, but the Pacers unquestionably still have more depth. Taking a look under the hood here is where things get really interesting: with the exception of Brunson, who is averaging .2 minutes less than his career high minutes per game average from last season, the Knicks starters all exceed their MPG averages stretching back to 2017/18. Towns, who’s played in 70 games once in the last 6 years, has already played 43 this year, and he’s playing more minutes than he has since 2017. Josh Hart is currently playing a career high 37.5 MPG, a full 4 minutes above last season. The same goes for Bridges—though known for his durability, he is currently playing a career high 38.4 MPG, almost 4 above last season. Even OG, who one might expect to be on some kind of minutes reduction given his injury history over the last 4 years, is playing a career high 36.7 per game. I hate to be “that guy”—I really would prefer to play the Knicks with both teams at full strength—but I’m not the first person to say that this Thibodeau approach to MPG is questionable, especially given the injury history of Towns and OG. People will say it’s just bad luck if a Knicks player gets injured—the Pacers just “got lucky”—but at some point we have to acknowledge that rotation minutes are strategy and coaching decisions. It’s especially opportune that this weakness of the Knicks is a strength of the Pacers. In fact, nobody on our squad averages 35 per game. What’s more, all 5 Knicks starters average more MPG than Halliburton’s Pacers team high of 34.2. This is no small thing. Again, I wish the Knicks all the best in health—but we’ve seen this story before, haven’t we?

In short—fuck the Knicks. Ben Stiller, I’m loving Severance, but I really hope the camera catches you shedding a single tear as you attempt to cover your face with one of those little towels they pass out at sporting events when the Pacers defeat the Knicks in the playoffs for the second year in a row. Go Pacers.

This doesn't effect us, but what in the world!!!

Minutes split right down the middle tonight. 24:42 for Mathurin and 23:18 for Nesmith to equal a total of 48 minutes at the SF spot. I'm very intrigued to see how this plays out over the remainder of the season.

Sidenote: Only 11mins for McConnell tonight. I think we are starting to see a slight lean towards Nembhard running the backup PG minutes on a more regular basis.

…especially if we finish the season playing as well as we’ve been playing lately!

Anybody have any scoop about filming for Season 2?

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