Pacers too white? No, Bird wants guys who can play.

[fienX420]

I didn't love that trade initially, but it has proven to be solid. The extra salary is what's hurt the most. The Dunleavy injury was a bad break, but other than that, we got some great talent. Murphy and Dunleavy can ball. I expect that Dunleavy heals up and returns sooner than expected, and I think that will be key to our return to the playoffs this season.

[wemisurm]

Peoples favorite card to play is the race card. Too funny! In fact some people that is the only card they have in their deck.

Took this from Bill Simmons Draft Day Diary XIII - Hey, I'm excited for Indiana's 2009-10 local marketing campaign: a photo of Troy Murphy, Mike Dunleavy, Jeff Foster, Hansbrough and Travis Diener with the UPS-like slogan, "WHAT CAN WHITE DO FOR YOU?"

[chriscringle95]

Indiana fans will sellout Conseco to see a "Hard Working","High Character" team. A white team in Indiana assures the team can sell enough tickets to satisfy the bottom line. Bird is no dummy. If you can't win the championship then you have to put the most appealing product on the floor to at least maintain interest from your fanbase.

In my book the Pacers aren't white enough and should trade Granger to Dallas for Nowitizki.

Trade TJ Ford and next years draft pick and steal Nash

BAM!!!!

Nash
Dunleavy
Dirk
Murphy
Foster

PLAYOFFS!

[Grang33r]

In terms of value and talent that trade was pretty even, and on top of that we managed to let go of one disgruntled employee and one extremely off-kilter personality.

Yeah. I don't think the Pacers wanted to trade away Al Harrington, however, you need to trade something worth something, if you want to get rid of garbage that nobody wants. At the time of the trade, GSW didn't want Mike Dunleavy but we didn't want Stephen Jackson, and actually, not too many teams around the league wanted Jackson. The deal Bird made was genius and it was the starting block of fixing our image.

And looking back on it, Harrington didn't turn out well in GSW like they had hoped and Dunleavy and Murphy have been great for us.

[bluefear]

I dont know about everyones else feelings about this but i think this statement is ridiculus! Who cares I dont. Now I know Kravitz is white and all but why is this right for him to say? To me someone of his position should of thought twice about printing this. (Pacers too white) i think if somebody said that the hawks(just an example) had all african american players there would be an uproar. There is somethings that should be kept to them self.

how come you used the term 'white' and then 'african american' and not 'black'....just curious...

eagerly awaiting an answer

[Blasphemy]

LOL

So raps are to euro in a way!