In the spirit of the holiday season and the calendar-driven opportunity to focus on fresh starts, we could start by directing your attention to Joe Young's 20 points, or the postgame reaction of Lance Stephenson and Myles Turner.
That will have to wait, however. The primary storyline from the Pacers' 107-90 loss to Minnesota on Sunday has to be the highly undesirable manner in which they capped off the year, not to mention a month that had begun with so much promise. The team that was 16-11 three Sundays earlier after winning its fourth straight game with a spirited overtime victory over Denver finds itself lugging a four-game losing streak and 19-18 record into 2018.