Paul George was choosing his words carefully, picking through them deliberately to avoid offending the paying customers at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.
"I love being on the road and playing on the road," he was saying after scoring the last 21 points of a Pacers' victory over Detroit on Saturday. "It's going to be fun to be in hostile environments."
George should have a blast, then over the next three weeks. The Pacers play nine of their next 11 games on the road, from Miami to Sacramento and points between, completing the most difficult scheduling stretch of their season.