NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said Lucas Oil Stadium was “briefly considered” as the site of the 2021 NBA All-Star Game. But a desire to have the game in a more intimate facility led the league and team officials to choose the 18,165-seat Bankers Life Fieldhouse to host the game.
Michael Grady, a sports reporter at WRTV-TV Channel 6 and public address announcer for the Indiana Pacers, has taken a position as sideline reporter for the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets.
The St. Vincent Center combines team training facilities—including regulation-sized courts, cushy recovery amenites and an underwater treadmill—with health care services for the public.
Despite the layoffs and the loss of several major contracts at the east-side manufacturing plant, Adidas officials say they intend to continue operating and investing in the facility.
Two people with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press that star forward Paul George has informed the Indiana Pacers that he plans to leave the franchise when he becomes a free agent in 2018.
Larry Bird confirmed last week’s reports on Monday by resigning as the Indiana Pacers' president of basketball operations and saying simply that it was time to do something else.
The questions started less than an hour after the Indiana Pacers season officially ended.
Former WNBA standout Tamika Catchings has been named director of player programs and franchise development with Pacers Sports & Entertainment, the organization announced Monday afternoon.
More than two years after the 6-foot-5 guard left in free agency, the Pacers re-signed the talented but mercurial player on Thursday as the team struggles to make the playoffs.
The rest issue has been an even hotter-than-usual talking point in the NBA of late with teams like Golden State and Cleveland electing to rest superstars in recent nationally televised games.
With the NBA trade deadline set for 3 p.m. Thursday, four-time All-Star Paul George tried to tamp down speculation by staying focused on his job.
A local marketing and technology firm is putting its name on an upscale club area that team officials expect to debut near the beginning of the upcoming season in Bankers Life Fieldhouse.
The league has dinged the New York Liberty, Phoenix Mercury and Indiana Fever and their players for wearing black warm up shirts in the wake of recent shootings by and against police officers.
Still trying to remold and toughen the Indiana Pacers, Larry Bird has cut a deal with center Al Jefferson for $30 million over three years.
Former Indiana Pacers coach Frank Vogel Vogel fits what the Magic were looking in a coach. His Pacer teams were usually one of the top defensive clubs in the NBA, finishing in the top six in field-goal defense in each of his five full seasons as head coach.
The Toronto Raptors did the clawing and grinding as they cruised past Indiana on its home court 101-85 to take a 2-1 lead in the series.
City and Indiana Pacers officials will decide after they get bid requirements later this summer whether to pursue the NBA All-Star Game for Indianapolis.
In a sign of the city’s serious intent to host the game, Pacers President Rick Fuson will be accompanied by presidents and vice presidents of Visit Indy and the Indiana Sports Corp. as he travels to Toronto this week.
The 10-time All-Star spent a few weeks in January as an intern in the NBA offices as part of a program to help players consider their post-retirement options.
The NBA is trying to make Dec. 25 as much about basketball as Santa. It now features five televised games drawing some 30 million viewers. Ticket prices are double those of other regular-season games.
