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  • Indiana Pacers Season Preview: Paul George as the Centerpiece of Grand Ambition

    Indiana Pacers Season Preview: Paul George as the Centerpiece of Grand Ambition

    The Indiana Pacers have made the playoffs in five of the last six seasons, including two conference finals. They were built to win a championship and got sidetracked. With Paul George healthy again, a new head coach in Nate McMillan and interesting additions like Jeff Teague and Al Jefferson, Larry Bird is trying to get them back in a position to win a championship.

  • NBA Rumors – Indiana Pacers Aren’t Going to Tank

    NBA Rumors – Indiana Pacers Aren’t Going to Tank

    Losing their best player to a season ending injury and perhaps their second most important offensive player to free agency could mean the Indiana Pacers are headed towards a season that will be about tanking in order to ensure a better future, although it’s hard to believe that’s going to happen considering the men running this team.

  • Indiana Pacers – Breaking the Glass Ceiling

    Indiana Pacers – Breaking the Glass Ceiling

    The Indiana Pacers aren’t a minority in the NBA, but there seems to be an impassable barrier that keeps holding them back from reaching the NBA finals. The question that needs to be asked – is it another team getting in their way, or are their other problems, internal, from the coaching of Frank Vogel, to the problematic Roy Hibbert and Lance Stephenson, or maybe the not quite superstar Paul George, or maybe even the decision making of Larry Bird, resulting in a bench that is completely ignored throughout the playoffs?

  • Players With Regular Season & NBA Finals MVP at the Same Time

    Players With Regular Season & NBA Finals MVP at the Same Time

    By winning the NBA title, regular season MVP and NBA Finals MVP for a second consecutive time, LeBron James became one of the few players to win the awards in the same season more than once, joining Michael Jordan and Larry Bird, while Willis Reed, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Hakeem Olajuwon, Shaquille O’Neal and Tim Duncan did it once as well.

  • Kevin Durant On His Way into the 50-40-90 Club

    Kevin Durant On His Way into the 50-40-90 Club

    Is Kevin Durant going to make it this season into the MVP club? Maybe, but there’s another club the Oklahoma City Thunder star might be joining: The 50-40-90 one.

  • Most Wins of the NBA Finals MVP Award

    28 Players have won the Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award (a recent change to the name), with LeBron James’ fantastic playoff and finals performance for the Miami Heat making him the latest inductee into what might be the most prestigious club of elite NBA players.

  • Most Wins of the NBA Regular Season MVP Award

    LeBron James hasn’t been oficially announced as the MVP yet, but it’s pretty close. With the 2012 regular season award coming to him, he’ll be the eighth NBA player to win the award for a third time, putting him level with Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Moses Malone. He does need that NBA title that the rest of the guys on the list have.

  • VERY Old School Larry Bird Photo

    A super old and super weird picture of Larry Bird during his Indiana State days.

  • The One on One Match Ups We’d Like to See In a Dream All-Star Weekend

    In a perfect All-Star weekend, with a one on one competition, these ten match ups would be awesome to see.

  • The NBA’s Top Ten Small Forwards of All Time

    Part III of our greatest players of all time in NBA history posts, here are the ten best Small Forward who have played the game.