While in the process of preparing for the draft and evaluating coaching candidates, it appears that yet another change is in store for the Pacers headed into next season: According to The Athletic’s Shams Charania, Indiana’s Senior Vice President of Basketball Operations, Peter Dinwiddie, who started in ticket sales and worked his way up to a front office position and subsequent promotions as a salary cap guru, has been hired on as Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations by the Philadelphia 76ers.
Dinwiddie was a finalist for a top executive job with the Memphis Grizzlies in 2014 and also interviewed for the Bucks GM job in 2017, which highlights not only his desire to eventually run his own team but also goes to show that today’s news was likely only a matter of when rather than if.