INDIANAPOLIS -- The Indiana Pacers will welcome a familiar face to Bankers Life
Fieldhouse on Monday night, as former head coach Frank Vogel and the Orlando
Magic will be in town.
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coached the Pacers for the previous six seasons. He holds the most wins in
franchise history and compiled the second-best winning percentage for any Pacers
head coach (.580).Larry Bird made a somewhat surprising move in the offseason,
replacing Vogel with Nate McMillan. Both teams are off to slow starts this
season, as they each enter Monday night with a 4-6 record. But Vogels Magic just
took down the Thunder on Sunday and are hoping to build off that victory.For the
most part, Vogel was well-liked in Indianapolis, and the fans should respond
accordingly.I think Frank will get a great reaction, said McMillan. The fans
will be able to show their appreciation for all that he contributed here.Itll be
great, Paul George told the Indianapolis Star. Im sure itll be an emotional
moment for himself and for our crowd.Vogel agrees. I have a lot of strong ties
still there, he told the Orlando Sentinel. Some of my best basketball moments of
my life were coaching the Pacers.The Pacers had aspirations of being a top team
in the Eastern Conference this season, but have struggled to find their identity
in the early going. Theyre coming off an uninspiring week in which they played
two overtime games with Philadelphia, including one loss, and their first home
loss of the season on Saturday night against Boston.Indiana is hoping to have
George back in action. He missed Saturdays game with a sprained ankle.Scoring
has not been the issue for the Pacers, as theyve averaged 108.4 points per game
so far, good enough for fifth in the NBA.The opposite has been true for Orlando.
Coming into Sunday night, the Magic were last in the NBA at 92.3 points per
game. They exploded for 119 points in the win over Oklahoma City. They were led
by Serge Ibaka, who scored 31 points and hit the game-winning shot against his
former team.Im not going to lie to you, it felt good, Ibaka said after the
game.The Magic were able to withstand Russell Westbrooks monster night (41
points, 16 assists, 12 rebounds) in the win.Both of these teams are among the
NBAs worst in team defensive rating. They both are giving up over 108 points per
100 possessions, which is rare for one of Vogels teams. It will be an intriguing
matchup for two teams that are both searching for their own identity.The Magic
will be without Jodie Meeks (fractured fifth metatarsal) and the Pacers will be
without Rodney Stuckey (right hamstring strain.)Indiana went 2-1 against the
Magic last season and have won 11 of the last 13 meetings overall. Monday will
be the first of four matchups between these teams this season.
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. The 29-year-old Baines has established himself as one of the top attacking
full backs in the country and was the subject of two bids from United during the
last off-season. Everton manager Roberto Martinez says that keeping Baines at
the club is a "massive boost and exciting for the future" because he brings
"maturity and football knowledge in a very specialized position on the pitch"
and an "infectious and positive influence to the rest of the squad. Baseball is
a sport steeped in tradition, and news that one of the sports more interesting
rites of passage, rookie dress-up, will now be policed by the league has rankled
some players.I believe its team building, and I believe that it can be done in a
way that is sensitive but allows that team-building process to unfold, veteran
Los Angeles Angels reliever Huston Street said in an opinion piece written for
the Associated Press.Part of Major League Baseballs new Anti-Hazing and
Anti-Bullying Policy prohibits teams from requiring, coercing or encouraging
players to engage in activities that include dressing up as women or wearing
costumes that may be offensive to individuals based on their race, sex,
nationality, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or other
characteristic.The league does, however, leave the door open for players to be
dressed up in what it considers non-offensive ways, such as superheroes or
cartoon characters.While Street wrote in his piece for the AP that he is against
any form of bullying, he argues that forcing rookies to dress up is neither a
malicious endeavor nor is it aimed at denigrating others. And he asks that
people use a certain sense of logic, historical truth and tolerance when it
comes to the practice.Yes, I remember my dress-up day. I remember it fondly,
Street wrote. I was dressed as a female of some sort. We werennt making fun of
people that actually dress that way; we were dressed up in uncomfortable
clothes, as a contrast of macho dudes dressed in too tight fitting or too
revealing clothes for our body type.
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the exercise from a lens of humor would see the contrast for what it is and
wouldnt be offended.Street isnt the only big leaguer upset with the new rules,
as?Los Angeles Dodgers?pitcher Ross Stripling?took to Twitter on Monday
night.Street, however, hopes that altering the rules on this form of hazing
doesnt spark a new and potentially worse tradition.Rookie dress-up is like
anything in this life: Done appropriately, it is a healthy ritual; taken too far
and it becomes either offensive or dangerous, he wrote. And now its out of the
players hands. A part of the game that was openly and happily shared with fans
in an effort to show our childlike spirit or humble ourselves in wearing
something funny as a team-building moment is now gone but truthfully wont change
much, and I dont really care that much.But rest assured, some other ritual will
rise, will be kept far more secret, and hopefully its as safe and harmless as
uncomfortable clothes.Information from The Associated Press was used in this
report.
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