basketball

Kimmel’s comment on PG’s bold outfit: “Where do you even get something like that, Marshalls, T.J. Maxx?” We’ve got the word on just who suits him.

Some observers are already saying this will go down as one of the NBA’s all-time top dunks.

Says Bird about his return to the NBA team based in Indianapolis: “I don’t know if I’d be doing this if it was anywhere but here.”

While a clunky read at times, Leonard’s biography serves as a good introduction to the history of Indiana basketball.

Granted permission to begin making their movie just two weeks before the season started, Cohn and Rothbart picked up and moved from where they lived in Ann Arbor to spend a year in Medora. Six hundred hours of footage later, the duo has an 82-minute film that Cohn says is all about identity.

Despite the country’s unconditional passion for “the beautiful game,” college sport is simply not a big deal there. Aside from the teams, players, and trainee media students looking to make names for themselves, interest is virtually nonexistent.

A designer-jewelry pop-up, new leather goods from a local artisan, and a Pacers-Beatles mashup.

Two IU players put up big numbers, as sophomore Kevin “Yogi” Ferrell and senior Will Sheehey scored 15 points apiece in the win.

Oladipo’s experience was not without its hiccups. An NBA handler directed him to take off the eye-gear before the main televised event.

Victor Oladipo became only the sixth player in IU history to be selected with one of the first two picks in the draft.

As he often does during times of non-crisis, President Obama cracked some jokes while honoring the Hoosier favorites.

Here’s a look at the closing scenes and sayings from this great Pacers season, from a year in which we all learned to love them again. Indiana fans won’t soon forget the personalities of these athletes—and the same holds true for Roy Hibbert’s block of the Knicks’ Carmelo Anthony.

As Indy’s first professional-basketball champions in 30 years, they’ll have a banner raised in their honor at Bankers Life Fieldhouse this month. But unlike their NBA counterparts, their post-title offseason was less than glamorous.

One of my most vivid teen memories involves a Monday-morning pep rally in the Broad Ripple High School gym, after Coach Gene Ring’s Rockets won the sectionals, then regionals, and secured a trip to the 1963 semi-state. As the rock-star players filed onto the floor wearing varsity sweaters, the students in the bleachers went wild. Dressed in our own uniforms of stitched-down pleated skirts and cardigans, my girlfriends and I jumped up and down ’til our eyeballs rattled, screeching like banshees. The rumble was deafening, the kind you can feel way down in your gut.

On staying inside the lines, remembering to dribble, and reviving a family legacy. How my 3-year-old learned to be a Hoosier.