Last year's Pacers squad revolutionized the way team basketball is played - the Hawks have taken note and modeled themselves in Indiana's successful image
We may have witnessed the single greatest team playoff run in the history of the NBA just a few short months ago.
Tyrese Haliburton led the charge in upset after upset, paving the way for his Pacers to reach the Finals, where they ultimately fell just one win short of an NBA championship. The argument could certainly be made that they would've won it all had it not been for a heart-wrenching stroke of bad injury luck.