With their eyes on returning to contention after a season off for Tyrese Haliburton, the Indiana Pacers had a shot at adding a top 4 pick in this year’s NBA Draft.
Instead, they won’t have a first-round draft pick at all. The Pacers fell out of the top of Sunday’s NBA Draft lottery, and their pick that wasn’t projected for No. 5 will now fall to the Los Angeles Clippers via the Ivica Zubac trade.
This prompted an apology from Pacers president of basketball operations Kevin Pritchard.
