Despite the rumors, the Indiana Pacers entered 3 p.m. on Thursday with the exact same roster they had the day before. They didn’t make any moves to improve the 2017-18 team. They didn’t make any moves to improve their future prospects.
For many reasons, this is a pretty good thing. Many future-minded Pacers fans hoped for Kevin Pritchard to use the team’s cap space to take on a bad contract in order to score a nice young asset. A few Woj tweets confirmed the possibility, but ultimately nothing came of it. The right deal wasn’t on the table.