Larry Bird

SECAUCUS, N.J. -- Strange, the situations you can find yourself in by wandering around the halls at the mini-circus that is the NBA draft lottery. In a cramped waiting room outside the TV studio set, for example,...

This article originally appeared in Sports Illustrated on June 29, 1987.

Four years ago, when Larry Bird was hired as Pacers president of basketball operations, the agreement was he'd succeed Donnie Walsh as CEO after this season. Bird wisely has told Walsh he wants him to stay, and...

For all those angry Indiana Pacers fans who consider their team's 37-win pace to be an outright embarrassment this season, understand this: It really isn't much of a drop-off from what you should have expected. If...

Is it a statistical coincidence? Or a result of teams' desire to make a few more bucks by selling a few more courtside seats?