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Thaddeus Young exercises $13.7M option, will return to Pacers

After consideration and with rumors swirling about the Pacers potential interest in restricted free agent Aaron Gordon, Thaddeus Young has decided to forego testing the financially crunched free agent market to finish the final season of his 4-year, $54 million contract with the Pacers, reports ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.

“If you took Thad and (looked) at his points and rebounds and all of that, you’d say he’s a pretty good player,” Pritchard said of the lefty power forward’s quiet impact at the team’s end-of-season press conference. “But, then, when you’re around him and (see) what he did with his leadership this year and made sure we stayed together — he brings an inordinate amount of value.