How We Got Here: The Indiana Pacers Transaction Trees

The Indiana Pacers Transaction Trees Get Much Less Complicated

By Ben Gibson | Aug 12, 2016

Jun 25, 2015; Brooklyn, NY, USA; Myles Turner (Texas) greets NBA commissioner Adam Silver after being selected as the number eleven overall pick to the Indiana Pacers in the first round of the 2015 NBA Draft at Barclays Center. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports /

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With the exception of the Christmas tree, the Indiana Pacers have made most of their moves to build this roster in the past 10 seasons, and for the most part, really in the past five or six.

On a much more practical level, it is easy to forget Paul George is now the longest-tenured Pacers player as he heads into his 7th season.

Everyone else with signed as a free agent, traded for or drafted in the past three years. Larry Bird has been trying to create a new identity for the team once David West and Roy Hibbert left, and at least looking at these trees, it seems obvious those smash-mouth teams (or at least the players) are now long gone.

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The trees are much less confusing this season, but they still give a look into the past and all the moves it takes to build a roster.

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