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It was respectable and right for Pacers to go for it

Indiana Pacers On SI·Mateo Mayorga·22 days ago
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Despite the Indiana Pacers falling out of the top four and it stinging supporters that they won’t pick one of the talented prospects in this loaded draft, the trade for Ivica Zubac made them better. It’s unfair to call it a bad trade because there was a good chance the team would have kept the pick, and had they, talk would have started about the swap being a heist.   The trade was made at a time when the team was desperate for a quality big man to replace Myles Turner. Think about how close the team was last year, even with Tyrese Haliburton’s devastating Achilles tear in Game 7 of the Finals, and how no team has had the conference by the throat since LeBron James was on the Cleveland Cavaliers.  The exchange may have taken some sweetening of the pot since quality centers are not normally not on the market for long. Still, even with things not going according to plan, president of basketball operations Kevin Pritchard took ownership of it.…

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