NBA

SI and GQ stuff the Pacers, Tony Dungy tweets his wisdom, Hinkle prepares to show off its makeover, and more.

For Bird, the commitment to giving goes back to his upbringing in French Lick, “growing up in a small town” where he and his family “didn’t have a lot,” he says. “But we were greatly benefited by gifts.”

Where else are you going to wear all that gold? You know it’s not really your color.

“We were one of the biggest and best church-sponsored programs in the country,” says Byers. “Race was never really an issue.”

From @KingJames: “Man just landed and got a message about @Paul_George24. Made me immediately sick to my stomach!! Praying for u a speedy recovery homie!!!”

“Bobby ‘Slick’ Leonard: Heart of a Hoosier” depicts the impact one man can have on a family, a team, a city.

@TheJennaBee at the Brickyard 400: “It’s only 9 am and I’ve already found my hero: a bearded gentleman wearing floral cut-off jorts. I love this place. #SuperWeekend”

“The best part is that there’s so much people don’t know about Slick Leonard,” says filmmaker Ted Green. “He’s a documentarian’s dream.”

Via @realjohngreen, “Very sad to hear of the death of Maya Angelou. She was a brilliant writer who used her platform with care and thoughtfulness. Godspeed.”

Louis C.K. accomplished what the Indiana Pacers couldn’t Monday night—he got rid of LeBron James and the rest of the Miami Heat.

Just like the Indiana Pacers—no one’s there, then they are, and then they disappear again.

Should the Pacers take care of business tonight at the Fieldhouse and advance to the conference finals, it’s tempting to throw Miami’s idiosyncratic Chris ‘Birdman’ Andersen into the villain matrix.

Via @colefarrell: “Walking downtown, I heard an older man refer to the farmers market as ‘that weekly veggie festival.’ I’m into it.”

Pictures are worth a thousand words, but in basketball it’s points that count—Hibbert finished with 28, Stephenson bounced back with 12, and Arenas had zilch.

Said @djindianajones of the Atlanta Hawks’ Shelvin Mack, “Right now we don’t care if u went to butler or pike it’s game 7!!!! #gopacers”