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Draft Pick Young, Pacers Have Family Ties

Most second-round picks in the NBA Draft seem fairly random, a blindfolded toss at a dartboard propelled by hope for a small miracle.

Joe Young's arrival to the Pacers, on the other hand, feels more like fate. How's all this for coincidence?

His father, Michael, was a first-round draft pick of the Boston Celtics in 1984. There's a photo hanging on the wall at his home in Houston taken at his press conference, with a photo of Pacers president Larry Bird in the background.

An assistant coach at Oregon, Kevin McKenna, is a former Pacers player who played against Bird in college, coached at Bird's alma mater, Indiana State, and still gets in some trash-talking rounds of golf with Bird's brothers in Terre Haute.