Age: 27
Years pro: 7
Status: Has two seasons remaining on his contract, with a player option for the final one.
Key stats: Averaged career-high 23.7 points in the regular season, with career-best percentages from the field (.461), the 3-point line (.393) and the foul line (.898). Averaged career-best 28 points in the playoffs.
A team's best player is likely to be the first one blamed for a team's shortcomings, rather than the last. Paul George would attest. He just had one of the better individual seasons in franchise history, but one in which the Pacers failed to meet regular season expectations and were swept in the first round of the playoffs.