A 10-8 record might not seem like much to be thankful for, but the Pacers are immersed in the spirit of the holiday. Their four-game winning streak, which includes three road victories, has injected a dose of good cheer and adrenaline into a team that too often over the past few seasons played as if it had overdosed on tryptophan.
It wasn't supposed to happen this quickly, was it? Was it even supposed to happen at all? A team widely projected to win fewer than 35 games before the season began has a winning record heading into a month-long stretch in which it plays nine of its next 11 games at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.