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Based in Indianapolis, the Indiana Pacers are an American professional basketball team. As a member of the league’s Eastern Conference Central Division, the Pacers participate in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Pacers were first established in 1967 as a member of the American Basketball Association (ABA) and became a member of the NBA in 1976 as a result of the ABA–NBA merger. They play their home ground at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. The team is named after Indiana’s history with the Indianapolis 500’s pace cars and with the harness racing industry.
Indian Pacers Team Player Salaries
| Players | Age | Avg. Salary |
| Victor Oladipo | 27 | 21,250,000 |
| Malcolm Brogdon | 27 | 21,250,000 |
| Myles Turner | 23 | 20,000,000 |
| Domatas Sabonis | 23 | 18,725,000 |
| T.J. Warren | 26 | 11,750,000 |
| Jeremy Lamb | 27 | 10,500,000 |
| Doug McDermott | 27 | 7,333,333 |
| TJ Leaf | 22 | 2,894,006 |
| Domantas Sabonis | 23 | 2,794,889 |
| T.J. McConnell | 27 | 3,500,000 |
| Aaron Holiday | 23 | 2,165,600 |
| Goga Bitadze | 20 | 2,887,140 |
| Justin Holiday | 30 | 4,767,000 |
| Edmond Sumner | 23 | 2,080,000 |
| Alize Johnson | 23 | 1,127,658 |
| Jakarr Sampson | 26 | 1,737,145 |
| Naz Mitrou-Long | 26 | – |
| Brian Bowen II | 21 | – |
In all ABA and NBA, the Pacers have won three championships. In 2000, The Pacers were NBA Eastern Conference champions and more they have won nine division titles. Six Hall of Fame players – Reggie Miller, Chris Mullin, Alex English, Mel Daniels, Roger Brown, and George McGinnis – played with the Pacers for numerous seasons.
In the 2010 NBA draft, the Pacers selected forward/guard Paul George with the 10th overall pick. In the second round, they drafted guard Lance Stephenson, as well as forward Ryan Reid. The draft rights to Reid were traded on draft night to the Oklahoma City Thunder in exchange for the rights to forward/center Magnum Rolle. The Pacers signed George to his rookie contract on July 1, 2010. Stephenson signed a multi-year contract with the team on July 22. Just before training camp, Rolle was signed, along with big man Lance Allred. Both were cut before the regular season began.
In 2017, Paul George was traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder for Victor Oladipo and Domantas Sabonis. The Pacers received heavy criticism for this trade, but it would eventually prove to be the best season of Oladipo’s career, with him showing an increase in points, steals, assists, rebounds, free throw percentage, field goal percentage, as well as three-point percentage, which resulted to winning the NBA Most Improved Player Award. Sabonis also showed an increase in points, rebounds, and assists while leading the Pacers in rebounding during the 2017–18 season.
Oladipo would be selected as an All-Star reserve again for the 2019 game. Nevertheless, while playing against the Toronto Raptors on January 23, 2019, he left the game with a ruptured quad tendon, and he was ruled out for the rest of the season. Regardless, the Pacers again finished the season going 48–34 and secured a playoff spot for the fourth consecutive time on March 22, but were swept in the first round of the 2019 playoffs by the Boston Celtics.
