Indiana Pacers: Complete grades for the 2019 NBA offseason
By Fox Doucette
The Indiana Pacers were one of the busiest teams in the 2019 NBA offseason, but did they actually get better for the 2019-20 season?
The Indiana Pacers‘ wheeling and dealing in the 2019 offseason means they’re coming into the upcoming campaign with only three major pieces from last year’s roster — Victor Oladipo, Myles Turner, and Domantas Sabonis.
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Trades and free agent signings brought in Malcolm Brogdon, T.J. Warren, T.J. McConnell and Jeremy Lamb. The draft brought in Goga Bitadze.
On the other hand, Indiana lost Darren Collison to retirement and also lost Bojan Bogdanovic, Thaddeus Young and Cory Joseph to the Utah Jazz, Chicago Bulls and Sacramento Kings respectively.
But do these moves make the Pacers better or worse in 2019-20? The team’s been stuck on 48 wins for the past two seasons, so will they make a leap or sink into the sewer of “too good to tank, not good enough to contend”?
We begin with the biggest question mark of them all.