Indiana wants to trade some Pacers
The Pacers filled the team with final pieces: Domantas Sabonis, Malcolm Brogdon, Myles Turner, T.J. Warren, Caris LeVert, especially Chris Duarte. Killer fourth guys, maybe thirds, nobody that fills seats.
This year’s model is cursed with rough “luck” in the clutch and an injury count bleaker than most, but Pacers general manager Kevin Pritchard would do well to break this whole thing up:
“We just talked about the article and how we try to be super transparent with the players. If they ever want to ask me anything, they can ask me anything,” Pritchard told The Athletic after the meeting was over. “When we get close to making a trade, we don’t try to just bop a guy over the head with, ‘Oh, by the way, you’re traded.’ We will give them a heads up, and we’ve done that multiple times.”
Nobody on the Pacers is crying, they know this roster looks like a randomized NBA team.
Great pieces in all the regular spots, Pritchard didn’t try to break any rules here, but his is an enviable roster minus a singular sensation, the name in lights. It’s not the reason IND stinks in the clutch, but it does make for a good hook.
You can build a team around Domantas Sabonis provided you have the audacity, the freedom from instinct to visualize boldly before delivering greatness. So: I’d rather not.
If you’re like the rest of us, you deal for Myles Turner. His orthodoxy (big defense, solid shooting) isn’t his greatest selling point, but it helps. If some other big swinger wants to be the one to create a champion out of Sabas’ greatest hits, perfect, we’ll take the guy you don’t have to think too much about.
When he is dealt, hope Domantas stomps out the door like his dad did:
