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Myles Turner posted a long, heartfelt goodbye to Indiana and the Pacers organization on Instagram Thursday night. Below is the entire goodbye in its entirety: 10 years. One jersey. One city. It’s hard to put into words what the past 10 seasons and past 10 years of my life has meant to me… From a teenager out of Bedford, Texas to the MAN and player I am today, Indy has been home through it all. You watched me grow up—on and off the court. Just like you I put my hard hat on clocked in & clocked out every single day… Throughout the years I put my personal pride & ego to the side and sacrificed many parts of myself and my livelihood for the betterment and advancement of this organization. I NEVER took the easy way out, I took the criticism on the chin, bit my tongue to complain and just kept my head down and grinded through it all and in the end… it was ALL so worth it!
Scott Agness: NBA moratorium is lifted — and Pacers-Spurs trade, bringing rookie guard Kam Jones to Indy, is complete. He can now join the team for rookie/free agent camp ahead of Summer League.
Once Tyrese Haliburton went down, however, Indy became vulnerable. “It changed everything,” one league source said Tuesday. Until that moment, ownership was willing to pay luxury tax for the first time in 20 years.
Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever received the most votes for the 2025 WNBA All-Star Game and will be a team captain for the July 19 game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. The league reported Sunday that Clark received almost 1.3 million votes, and will be a captain along with Napheesa Collier of the Minnesota Lynx.
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Tyrese Haliburton a game-time decision for Game 6?
The Indiana Pacers are preparing for the possibility of not having Tyrese Haliburton available to play in Game 6 of the NBA Finals, coach Rick Carlisle said in a radio interview on Wednesday morning. Haliburton has been dealing with a lower right leg injury throughout the series and it worsened during Monday’s Game 5 loss in Indianapolis. Haliburton played through it for most of his 34 minutes, but failed to make a field goal in the game and Indiana lost to Oklahoma City 120-109 — falling behind 3-2 in the title series. Now facing a win-or-else scenario, there is a chance Haliburton does not play in Game 6 on Thursday. “He is going to be carefully evaluated over the next 36 hours and will likely be listed as questionable on the injury report and probably will be a game-time decision for Game 6,” Carlisle said on Indianapolis radio station 107.5 The Fan.
ON FEBRUARY 6, 2024, Scot Pollard was dying. The day before, he and his wife, Dawn, had arrived at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, for a three-day heart transplant evaluation. Scot had already been registered on transplant lists in Indianapolis and Chicago. He was aiming to get on the list in Nashville -- 300 miles south of the Pollards' Carmel, Indiana, home -- hoping another transplant region meant a greater opportunity for a match. Dr. Jonathan Menachem, a cardiologist at the hospital, placed his hands on Scot's wrist. "Your pulse is slow," he told him. "Is it always pretty slow?"
Marco Foster:HAPPENING NOW: Protesters have gathered in Indianapolis, Indiana across the street from the Pacers arena for a protest against Donald Trump and ICE (Video: @noepadilla.bsky.social )
“Without Herb Simon,” says Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett, “I don’t believe the Pacers would be in Indiana any longer. And then what else would we have missed? Think about it. The Colts, the NCAA … the list just goes on and on.”
Shams Charania: Everyone around this time of year is banged up, dealing with something. I'm sure Tyrese Haliburton is dealing with some levels of soreness. He went through full practice today. I'm told he was feeling a lot better yesterday going into today. So, I have not heard any concern level for his actual game status for Game Three in Indianapolis on Wednesday.
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Scott Agness: Myles Turner on Games 3 & 4 in Indy: "I just know Gainbridge is going to be rocking, man. I love our environment. ... I expect it to be a lot louder in Indianapolis." pic.x.com/ZoyqDa2tD6
Jermaine O'Neal: "But I remember two things that happened right away. I was sitting at Champs downtown Indianapolis, literally the table next to me, and they’re talking—like I can’t hear them—but they’re talking about me. Because Dale Davis was so loved in Indianapolis, they were like, 'Yeah, that’s the guy they traded Dale for,' in a negative tone. So I’m like, 'Okay, cool.' I’m taking it all in. Now, I say this to say—I always struggled. The demon I was struggling with was acceptance. So it made me angry. Angry about everything I did because I wanted to be accepted. My dad never accepted me. That was another learned behavior. So already, I’m turning up. I said, 'Okay, I know what I got to go do.'"
David Aldridge: Adam Silver, in his opening remarks, in discussing the issue of market size going into these Finals, cites data from Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt: About 300 million Americans, or 88 percent of the populace, live in cities smaller than Oklahoma City and Indianapolis.
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