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Syracuse Basketball: How Rakeem Christmas Fits In Indiana

It was roughly a year ago when Paul George suffered one of the more gruesome injuries you'll ever see, breaking his right leg during a Team USA scrimmage in Las Vegas and immediately sending the Indiana Pacers into a tailspin.

Before the injury, the Pacers were listed at 14-to-1 odds to win the 2015 NBA Finals, better than the Golden State Warriors, who ended up taking the crown.

But without George for most of the season, the Pacers were a shell of the team that won 56 regular season games in 2013-14 and reached that season's Eastern Conference Finals.