The Indiana Pacers Transaction Trees Get Much Less Complicated

The Free Agents

These ones are only hard to see because there are so many — click on the above image to take a closer look — but like the draft picks the are a simple line from the year the Pacers signed them to the present.

C.J. Miles and Rodney Stuckey have the oldest trees in the group, as they both were signed in 2014 as the Pacers were retooling after a disappointing exit from the Eastern Conference finals.

So far they’ve had mixed results, but as bench players and occasional starters, they fulfilled their roles.  As far as their contracts, both have player options at the end of this season.

The summer of 2015 brought along Glenn Robinson III and Monta Ellis as the Pacers hoped to finally ‘have it all’ on offense.

Monta’s numbers have dropped since joining the Pacers, but he’s also been transitioning into a different role with Indiana. There are still questions about his style of play and how it will fit in with the rest of the Pacers this season, but for now, he’s the starting shooting guard.

Robinson is more of a long-term project for the Pacers, but he did have his moments last season and showed potential in the Orlando Summer League this year.

This offseason the Pacers added Al Jefferson as their big free-agent signing to help fortify the bench, while Aaron Brooks was added recently to hold down the backup point guard role if Joe Young doesn’t take a step forward in his development.

Now that we have the direct lines out of the way, let’s take a look at one of our first trees that has more than one branch.

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