As a No. 3 seed, the Indiana Pacers are one of the favorites to win the Eastern Conference. However, as discussed on the recent podcast of the T.J. McAloon and the Sports Half Hour , because they do not have a true star on their team they will never get the respect that Miami, Chicago and Boston get.
The Pacers do have a solid core group of players with Danny Granger, Roy Hibbert, George Hill, David West and Leandro Barbosa—who they picked up at the NBA trade deadline.
However, none of those players jump off of the page and make fans in Indianapolis come out to Bankers Life Fieldhouse.
The Pacers finished another season either as the worst NBA franchise at attendance in the league, or no higher than 26th. This year, the team had a great home record of 23-10, but finished 29th in the league averaging only 14,168 fans per game, which equates to 78.1 percent capacity.
On the show, Jay Graves and I discuss the ways that the Pacers could fix their attendance issues—like making a run at potential free agent Eric Gordon.
Gordon is a restricted free agent, so the Hor ...
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Indiana Pacers Attendance: Woeful Numbers Because Lack of Names, Not Talent
May 5th, 2012 by T.J. Mcaloon Leave a reply »
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