End of the Paul George era – This offseason the Pacers, faced with the expectation that Paul George planned to leave at the end of his contract, decided to trade him to the Thunder. In the haul they got back Victor Oladipo and he looks to be the key backcourt player for them now. There was a time when the Pacers were Lebron’s biggest threat in the East and those days are now long gone. The Pacers will now depend on a mass unit of secondary or otherwise discarded players.