SBN NBA Mock Draft: Pacers take Jared Butler with 13th pick

Photo by Jamie Schwaberow/NCAA Photos via Getty ImagesWith the 13th pick in the SB Nation NBA Mock Draft, the Pacers select Jared Butler, guard from Baylor.

Easy enough for the Pacers to fill a need with a future point guard with good size and skill at both ends of the floor, regardless of which players return from last season. Certainly, Butler would give the Pacers an option to quickly fill T.J. McConnell’s role should a bidding role for the steals machine push McConnell out of the Pacers preferred price range.

To be honest, Butler wasn’t the first choice for this mock, so let me first explain how we got here. For starters, I feel like the Pacers are more likely to use the 13th pick to move…