Paul George, Roy Hibbert Part Ways With Haircuts
By Ben Gibson
Trying to figure out the locker room, and who is friendly with who, where exactly the animus of the Struggle came from may be something we never know. We at least know there doesn’t seem to be any hard feelings between Paul George and Roy Hibbert as the now Laker said the two hung out one last time in Indiana before he moved out to Los Angeles for good. Mike Bresnahan of the Los Angeles Times revealed that in a recent interview with Hibbert.
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"Before Hibbert moved out of his Indiana home last week, he invited Paul George to come over one last time, hiring a barber to give the former Pacers teammates haircuts in the barber-shop chair in Hibbert’s man cave.“I don’t harbor any resentment. I don’t want to see those guys do badly,” Hibbert said."
Hibbert’s home is on the market for $2.65 million if you have it to spare. Perhaps after you make the Fort Wayne Mad Ants and catch your break on the Indiana Pacers roster you can afford it.
Speaking of the Mad Ants, if you’d like to hear a little bit from general manager Brian Levy then take a listen to the D-League Dialogue podcast where he talks about taking over the Mad Ants. There is plenty of Mad Ants talk on the podcast but if you are pressed for time skip to 26:45 to hear from the new general manager.
In other news the Indiana Pacers ownership group is going through a lawsuit according to a story from the Associated Press last week. While justice is blind, it can’t stop people’s eyes from seeing information that was supposed to be redacted.
"The owner of the Indiana Pacers has asked a court to declare that his late brother’s estate and widow have no financial stake in the team.That’s according to wording in a Hamilton County court document that The Indianapolis Star reported was meant to be redacted, but instead was visible.The court has scheduled an Oct. 16 hearing on the request from Pacers owner Herb Simon to keep documents on the matter under seal. He argues that public release would create “significant risk of substantial harm” to people who signed a confidential settlement in 2012 pertaining to Melvin Simon’s estate.The brothers, who became billionaires from their Simon Property Group shopping mall business, owned the Pacers together from 1983 until months before Melvin Simon’s 2009 death, when an agreement transferred full ownership to Herb Simon.Melvin Simon’s widow, Bren, is in litigation trying to recover more than $21 million in federal taxes she paid, saying the Internal Revenue Service improperly interpreted as a gift the $83 million that her husband received from the Pacers ownership reorganization."
Herb Simon can’t be happy to still be dealing with this.
The season in only a few weeks away but this time of the year is just the calm before the storm. We’ll soon see how the Indiana Pacers will use the Mad Ants and how they manage their roster this season as they have 16 players signed to NBA contracts.