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Breaking Down Nate McMillan’s End-of-season Press Conference

It was almost a year ago when Pacers team president Larry Bird fired then-head coach Frank Vogel, going in-house to hire assistant coach Nate McMillan to be Vogel’s heir apparent at the position - with the desire that McMillan would bring a more uptempo, fast-paced offensive identity to the team that was absent during Vogel’s tenure in Indiana.

Almost a year later - 357 days to be exact - and McMillan’s rookie campaign with the Pacers did not pan out as Bird had envisioned. The Pacers finished the 2016-17 season with a lousy 42-40 record and were recently swept by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the first round of the playoffs.