Pacers assign Ben Sheppard and Jarace Walker to the Mad Ants ..read more

Justin Kubatko: Tyrese Haliburton last night: 26 PTS 10 REB 13 AST 0 TOV It’s his third 25p/10a game with zero turnovers this season. No player has recorded more such games in a season since the NBA began tracking individual turnovers in 1977-78 ..read more

“The story, the backstory of it all makes it, you know, the most special,” Turner said. “And the fact that he got his opportunity, he is able to take it and run with it … I mean, it’s just dope to see where this franchise, where I started with to what it’s becoming and what it potentially can become from the same level. It’s honestly, like I said, it goes back to the atmosphere. I haven’t heard MVP chants, maybe when (Victor) Oladipo was here, but Ty’s really come in and taken over and it’s fun stuff ..read more

All that Tyrese Haliburton wanted before the season was to get his first taste of playoff basketball. Monday night’s NBA In-Season Tournament quarterfinal seemed like the perfect dry run. So the 23-year-old All-Star guard registered the first triple-double of his career, completed a tiebreaking four-point play with 1:33 left and heard the large, raucous crowd chanting “M-V-P! M-V-P!” near the end of Indiana’s 122-112 victory, which ousted league-leading Boston from the tourney. “It means the world to me to represent Indiana and this organization,” Haliburton said after acknowledging he strugg ..read more

All that Tyrese Haliburton wanted before the season was to get his first taste of playoff basketball. Monday night’s NBA In-Season Tournament quarterfinal seemed like the perfect dry run. So the 23-year-old All-Star guard registered the first triple-double of his career, completed a tiebreaking four-point play with 1:33 left and heard the large, raucous crowd chanting “M-V-P! M-V-P!” near the end of Indiana’s 122-112 victory, which ousted league-leading Boston from the tourney. “It means the world to me to represent Indiana and this organization,” Haliburton said after acknowledging he struggl ..read more

Scott Agness: Rick Carlisle: “I expect Tyrese and Obi to play ..read more

Tim Bontemps: Rick Carlisle: “We’re playing the best team in basketball ..read more

Carlisle noticed that Toppin was off balance on many of his shot attempts from deep, and that was causing him to miss. So they talked about it and looked at solutions. “The thing about guys like him that are six-foot-10-inches, long, angular, is that when they run and then have to decelerate and get their balance, they really have to concentrate because there’s such a tendency from them to tip just slightly to the side,” Carlisle said. Toppin is known for his ability to fly up and down the court in the open floor, but that doesn’t help his jump shot. “That creates a little bit of a balance cha ..read more

“We’re one of the best offenses in the NBA and we don’t plan on slowing down on that end,” Haliburton said last month. “If we get stops, people don’t want to run with us. It’s tough to sustain for 48 minutes so we just gotta keep doing that on a nightly basis and taking it one game at a time ..read more

Scott Agness: Pacers starting forward Obi Toppin has been added to the injury report. Questionable — left ankle sprain ..read more