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Net gains.

Get to know the latest guys to don blue and gold.

“They made a Civil Rights statement by excelling at something that all Hoosiers valued, which is excellence in basketball.”

Freshman phenom or one-and-done?

“Back in the early 1800s, when Indiana’s political map was drawn, that many counties seemed about right.”

Show me a Hoosier who’s not excited about basketball season and I’ll show you a Kentuckian.

“If y’all don’t respect the Indiana Pacers now, I have no respect for you.”

“I went into this thinking I’d have to fight off boredom, covering all those games,” Dwyer says. “It’s been the opposite. Now I just need to figure out how to make the car payment.”

“It’s how ISIS teaches kids to play defense in their propaganda videos”

Paul George doesn’t have much time left in an Indiana Pacers uniform. After the story broke on Father’s Day that he intended to join the Los Angeles Lakers in 2018, the rumors surrounding his NBA future switched from “Do the Pacers know George wants out of Indianapolis?” to “What will the Pacers do now to […]

 As parents, we have trouble explaining life’s more complicated issues to our kids. Sometimes it’s astronomy. Other times it’s FISA warrants or the infield fly rule or the many plot holes in Blade II. Today it’s Lance Stephenson. The Dadball Era is here to help when the kids come a’questionin’. Because they certainly will. Who […]

I guess I’m regarded as a blue-collar worker on the basketball court. I see my dad as someone who has been a blue-collar worker all his life.

Bland picks are The Big Bang Theory of March Madness, and I have no use for them anymore.

“I do remember that he was swearing after we went off air,” recalls one of Knight’s former ESPN broadcast crew members. “Something or other was always pissing him off.”

“When you have a guy who’s a genius, a lot of people don’t understand him,” says Lawrence Funderburke. “Not to excuse anything he’s done, but he thinks differently and he sees differently.”