Larry Bird isn’t leaving the Indiana Pacers, but he is stepping down as the president of basketball operations.
Bird will remain on as a consultant, according the Vertical’s Adrian Wojnaroski, who first reported the news.
Kevin Pritchard is now in charge of basketball operations.
It wasn’t Bird’s best season by a long shot — and arguably his worse — but his overall record in the team’s front office shouldn’t be forgotten. You don’t make it to the conference finals two years in a row without a competent front office.
Last night we were asking what’s next for the Indiana Pacers, but this alters any of those previous assumptions for the team’s future.