For a team in need of becoming better acquainted, it’s the perfect antidote to unfamiliarity. Not the most pleasant, perhaps, but valuable and timely just the same.
The Pacers leave at noon Tuesday for Mumbai, India, a 16-hour flight to a country that has never hosted an NBA game and a city that is not suitable for extensive tourism. If anything can bring a group together, surely this is it.
“Not looking forward to the travel time, obviously, but I think it’s good for the team,” said the exceptionally well-traveled Domantas Sabonis, who like Myles Turner spent part of the summer in China playing in the World Cup.