Thanks to Paul George, the Pacers place favorably in ESPN's Young Core Rankings.
Armed with a bunch of late-twenty somethings in the middle of their primes, the Pacers surprisingly ranked No. 12 in ESPN's Young Core Rankings. Rankings were based upon projected three-year WARP, and young-core members were defined as "any player likely to be on the roster who won't yet be 26 by the end of the 2015-16 regular season." Bradford Doolittle offered only a snippet of justification for the Pacers' favorable ranking:
Indiana almost made the top 10 simply because Paul George fell on the right side of the cut-off age.