Through the first four games this season, the Indiana Pacers find themselves at .500 with a 2-2 record. While they still have 78 more games to play in the regular season, some have already begun to hit the panic button in Indianapolis — and rightfully so, as the Pacers haven’t looked that much fierce yet this season as they had been predicted by many analysts and experts to be a top team in the Eastern Conference.
Over the summer, team president Larry Bird made a three-team trade with the Atlanta Hawks and Utah Jazz that would allow the Pacers to ship longtime guard George Hill to the Utah Jazz, with the Pacers getting Jeff Teague out of the deal from the Hawks.