The Indiana Pacers got rid of Frank Vogel and hired Nate McMillan. According to Adrian Wojnarowski, McMillan got a three-year deal, and he will obviously be involved in the draft, trade, and free agent decisions left to be made this season before he really starts working with the players and molding this roster of players into his team.
Rather than any one cohesive opinion on the whole matter, I have a lot of random, unconnected or semi-connected thoughts about Nate McMillan taking over.
These are those.
- This was my first reaction to the news:
Hiring Nate McMillan pretty much shows that Larry Bird had no plan other than “I’m done with Frank Vogel.