After two weeks of a moratorium on conversation and a general lack of availability, the floodgates opened on Tuesday.
Three new Pacers players – Monta Ellis, Jordan Hill, Chase Budinger – and team president Larry Bird all made their way to the media room in Bankers Life Fieldhouse to face the microphones and an onslaught of questions. Their responses created a rushing stream of information that perhaps washed away some of the doubts fans have about an off-season that has transformed the team far more than Bird expected.
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Ellis, Hill and Budinger are in, and likely to be starting or in the playing rotation.