P.J. Tucker nears NBA post-season debut with club that drafted him — after daydreaming about it during last spring’s Raptors-Cavaliers Eastern final.
INDIANAPOLIS—P.J. Tucker knows it’s coming: his first shot at playing in the NBA playoffs, the end of a years-long journey that’s taken him around the world.
But sitting on the sidelines at the Bankers Life Fieldhouse here Tuesday morning, he refuses to even guess what he’ll feel like when the day finally arrives. He’s waited 11 long years and is smart enough to know there’s still business to be taken care of.