K. Pritch Props

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I personally feel like Kevin Pritchard deserves just as much love and praise as the coaches and players right now. He's assembled a team of selfless, ultra-competitive M-F-ers who never quit and put their team and teammates first.

Since '22, he's made awesome move after awesome move. That year he traded for Hali, drafted Nembhard and Mathurin, and then later traded for Nesmith. The next year he drafted Shep and Jarace and traded for Obi, then last year he brought in Siakam. Each of these guys is an individual talent. Most of them would have roles and be successful on other teams. But they've thrived here and contributed to tons of high-level, winning basketball.

Looking around the league, it's not hard to find franchises that are seemingly in a constant state of disarray, organizations whose implicit goal seems to be to torture their fans by making one stupefying, shortsighted decision after another.

While this team was in basketball purgatory for a few years, it was just a few years, not five, ten, or fifteen. Those down years to led to what we have now, which is my favorite Pacers team ever.

And I don't think I'm the only one.

So thank you K. Pritch, Rick, coaches, and players. Rooting for you all has brought me incalculable, unrivaled joy.

Now let's keep it going and start hanging some mother-fucking banners!