The Indiana Pacers have officially come crashing back down to earth, even as they somehow remain far atop an Eastern Conference in which the Miami Heat rank as their only real competition in the standings.
Whether it's time to sound any alarms really just depends on one's threshold for panic. Either way, facts are speaking for themselves in the worst possible way. Indiana has lost seven of its last 12 games, pining for a return to form when it should be peaking in anticipation of the postseason.
To be sure, there are a couple of factors that are almost certainly impacting the club's psychology. The Pacers miss Danny Granger—literally. It's not so much about his play on the floor, which was limited and uneven. It's about his presence in the locker room, his legacy as the guy who helped turn this franchise around.
Even more concretely, the struggling Paul George has to be distracted by nude photographs that were exposed against his will. Contrary to initial claims that he'd been "catfished" by a man posing as a female, George says he knows "who's behind it," according to USA Today's ...
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Article written by Stephen Babb