Given the way it turned out, a victory coming despite the loss of three of their top four players, all those injuries could be considered a blessing. Short-term, anyway.
Without Victor Oladipo, without Myles Turner, without Edmond Sumner and, most recently, without Domantas Sabonis, the Pacers were going to need contributions from semi-anonymous sources to beat Chicago on Sunday. They got them. And now two or three of them can take an added measure of confidence into the next game.
T.J. Warren scored a season-high 26 points, TJ Leaf grabbed a career-high 15 rebounds and Aaron Holiday had his first good game of the season in the Pacers’ 108-95 victory over the Bulls at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.