Indiana Pacers

Indiana-Pacers

Indiana Pacers

Even The Worst Teams Have Reason For Optimism (SportingNews.com)

It may not often seem like it, but a team's fortunes can turn around almost instantly in the NBA.

Suicide lines: Team USA down to 15; Hansbrough’s ailment (Yahoo! Sports)

Each weekday morning, BDL serves up a handful of NBA-related stories to digest with your chorizo frittata.

Pacers Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

The Pacers are about to take a risk with another second-round pick.

They hope this risk turns out better than the first one.

The Pacers, who have had a quiet offseason, signed second-round pick Lance Stephenson to a multi-year contract. Stephenson, who was projected as a future lottery pick during his high school playing days in New York, turned a lot of heads with a strong performance during the Orlando summer league in early July.

“Lance had a very good summer league,” Pacers general manager David Morway said. “We put him at the point guard position, and he had not played that position very much in the past.”

Stephenson averaged 14.8 points and shot 73 percent in four games in Orlando.

Suicide lines: Barnes in L.A.; CP3 to NYC? (Yahoo! Sports)

Each weekday morning, BDL serves up a handful of NBA-related stories to digest with your chinglechongles.

Pacers sign 2nd round draft pick Lance Stephenson (AP)

The Indiana Pacers have signed second-round draft pick Lance Stephenson to a multiyear contract. The Pacers made the announcement Thursday, but did not disclose the terms of the deal. Stephenson was the 2010 Big East Rookie of the Year at Cincinnati this past season. The 6-foot-5 guard was the Pacers' second-leading scorer in the Orlando summer league at nearly 15 points per game, and led the…

Wide-open US training camp begins under Coach K (AP)

Mike Krzyzewski was already down two players even before he ran his first practice. There's still plenty more he needs to evaluate. The Americans opened training camp Tuesday, giving the Hall of Fame coach and his staff their first chance to look at the 20 players competing for spots in the world championships.