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And then in the long term, they are rewarded for it. People want to work there. Their GMs (Walsh, Bird) stick around or come back. They get great assistant GMs (Bird, now Pritchard) who later take over as GMs. Their latest coaches: Larry Brown, Bird, Isiah, Carlisle, O'Brien, Vogel. It's a strong group, even Isiah and O'Brien were pretty good. Players stay.
There's an anecdote that's been around for years that the Pacers never bid on restricted free agents because their owner doesn't let them; because he thinks it's rude. It may be true, or there may be more to it. But it kind of shows how the Pacers are perceived. Their ownership has a certain way of doing business and communicating, and it ripples down.
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