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Michael Scotto: Tyrese Haliburton on the Pacers being slept on as title contenders: “For sure, but that’s a part of it. We’re Indiana. We’re the Pacers. We really don’t care about outside expectations. We have a goal of winning a championship and we’re trying to take it day by day to get there.”
NBA Trade Machine: 7.8% of trades built on HoopsMatic over the past 24 hours involved Domantas Sabonis. Of his trades, the most common landing spots were Indiana (11.3%), Utah (6.5%), and Houston (4.8%), while the most common return players were Tyrese Haliburton (11.3%), Dyson Daniels (4.8%), and Jaren Jackson Jr (4.8%).
Grant Afseth: Final: Rockets 128, Mavs 110 Cooper Flagg: 32 PTS, 5 REB, 2 AST, 3 STL, 1 BLK Marcus Sasser: 17 PTS, 2 REB, 1 AST, 1 STL Naji Marshall: 16 PTS, 2 REB, 6 AST, 1 STL Kyrie Irving: 15 PTS, 4 REB, 2 AST, 1 STL Kevin Durant: 30 PTS, 6 REB, 3 AST, 1 STL, 1 BLK Jabari Smith Jr.: 30 PTS, 5 REB, 1 AST, 2 STL Alperen Şengün: 23 PTS, 10 REB, 5 AST Dallas (0-1) faces Indiana on the road on Friday.
Indiana finished with its fewest wins in franchise history. The team was decimated by injuries early, and started to position itself for a better draft pick by the second half. By the end of the season, the team looked like a shell of the one that went to the Finals. "You can take [our preseason rankings] as disrespect, but at the same time, you got to understand we put ourselves in that position by the way we played last year," Haliburton said. "There's standards that we didn't meet that we got to get back to. And there's no secret that there was a drop-off last year."
In several games this season, Indiana will be wearing retro uniforms that honor the ones they wore while they were in the ABA. These uniforms are very similar to the ones they were wearing when Bobby “Slick” Leonard was coaching the franchise. He was a legendary coach for Indiana, winning three titles in the ABA. He is the most famous coach that the Pacers have had in franchise history.
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After years of it almost happening, Conley landed in Boston in July, signing a 1-year deal as a 38-year-old free agent. In part because they both hail from Indiana, Conley and Brad Stevens have known each other for a long time, and they’d gotten in contact almost every time the point guard was a free agent during his illustrious career. But it just never worked out. “The timing was never there,” Conley said. “And then, ironically enough, 20 years into it, the timing finally is right.”
How Haliburton became the face of Indiana Donor Network kind of begins when he was 16. He walked in to get his driver's license and was asked the question. Do you want to be an organ donor? "There wasn't even a thought to say no. You know? It's always been something that I've been passionate about, especially if you can help somebody else out," he said. "I'm a big believer in serving others. And so, I feel like this is something that's very important and something that we can all do and something easy to sign up for."
German 7-footer Felix Kiehlneker has committed to Indiana for the 2027 recruiting class, according to Jonathan Givony of DraftExpress. The 18-year-old, 7-foot-1 (216 cm) center is a product of German team ratiopharm Ulm and started for Germany at this summer's FIBA U18 EuroBasket.
Patrick Beverley: "What was said in Indiana was, I've never been spoken to that way my entire life in the NBA. I'm going to just say that. Do I regret the way I handled things? Of course. Could I have had handled things better? Of course. Obviously that you cross and you don't cross when it comes to just talking to anybody, any human being. And that line for the people that were around, that line was crossed several times. Did I handle it the best way? Probably not, but would that person go around saying those things again? Probably not."
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Glenn said, “Gary, Indiana will always be a part of who I am. It’s where I’m from, and I will never forget the people and the community that helped shape me. This is more than a donation, this is an investment in the City of Gary, its families, and its future.”
Tyrese Haliburton: ‘And then I got another call, and it was like, now it was both of my agents, and they were like, and I was like, who is it? And then Woj on the phone. I don't know how he got like, cause I don't know how he was on the phone. He goes, I think it's Indiana. I'm like, who the [expletive] is Indiana? I'm like, I think it's Indiana. And I'm like, then I'm like, oh, after I process that Woj on the phone, I said, Indiana for who? Cause I didn't even know. And they were like, Sabonis. And I was like, oh, word.’
Mike Vorkunov: The 2nd round pick the 76ers sent to the Clippers in the Johni Broome trade: The second most favorable between (1) the most favorable of Houston/Indiana/Miami/Oklahoma City, (2) the most favorable of Golden State/Phoenix, or (3) Philadelphia’s own 2027 second-round pick.
Houston Rockets: OFFICIAL: The Rockets today announced they have signed free agent forward/center Oscar Tshiebwe. He spent his rookie season as a two-way player with Indiana in 2023-24 and the past two seasons on a two-way contract with Utah. In 49 career games with seven starts, Tshiebwe has averaged 7.0 points and 6.5 rebounds in 15.2 minutes per game.