The Indiana Pacers are winning themselves out of ping pong balls.
Just a few short weeks ago, the Pacers were finally giving their fans something to get excited about when they dropped to as low as fourth last in the NBA.
With the season already in tatters and making the playoffs a virtual impossibility, this had fans dreaming of the likes of John Wall (11.9 percent chance) and Evan Turner (12.6 percent), future stars with the potential to finally turn the franchise around.
Since then, the Pacers have gone on an inexplicable hot streak, winning six of seven and seven of nine, by far their best performance of the season.
While other teams are tanking in a mad frenzy for the Wall and Turner sweepstakes, the Pacers have gone in the opposite direction, moving up to 14th to 10th in the Eastern Conference, and from 27th to 21st in the league.
To put things in perspective, of all teams that are out of the playoffs, not a single one apart from the Pacers has a winning percentage of 50 percent in their last 10 games. The Pacers have won 70 percent of games in their last 10.
If the season ended today, t ...
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