As Kevin Pritchard tells it, the day after Indiana’s Game 7 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers, he arrived early at the team’s practice facility, at around 7:30 AM, to get in a workout and while he was riding one of the stationary bikes he noticed he wasn’t alone.
Victor Oladipo was there, too — getting up around 200 shots, lifting weights, and making good on his public refusal to take time off.
“That’s great for him, and we know that that’s Victor,” Pritchard explained. “but, let me ask you this, what does that do for every other player on our team?