NBA Draft: Pacers pick Aaron Holiday 23rd overall

The Indiana Pacers held at the 23rd pick and drafted their second consecutive UCLA prospect in the first round, taking guard Aaron Holiday. Holiday led the way for the Bruins as a junior, scoring 20.3 PPG and dishing 5.8 APG, picking up All-Pac-12 First Team honors for a 21-12 UCLA team that reached the NCAA Tournament.

Markybcool at Bruins Nation broke down Holiday as a prospect, offering a lot of interesting positives, praising his scoring ability and even better, his shooting touch:

Holiday can drain the rock from the perimeter, and this ability will mostly likely only get better. Holiday currently has NBA 3-point range, and the current state of the NBA puts a lot of stock in guards that…