Facing a roster crunch, the Pacers have traded away the No. 23 pick in the 2025 draft to New Orleans recover their 2026 first-round pick.

The Pacers are trading the No. 23 pick in the 2025 first round and the rights to G League Ignite guard Mojave King to the New Orleans Pelicans in exchange for the rights to the Pacers' 2026 first-round pick, which the Pelicans had acquired in a previous deal, according to ESPN's Shams Charania on Tuesday.

Haliburton has been superb during the Pacers’ postseason run, hitting game-winners in Game 1s against to Cavaliers and Thunder while also connecting on the game-tying bucket at the end of regulation during Indiana’s Game 1 win over the Knicks in the Eastern Conference finals.

“I realized that basketball was really special when I took my official visit here,” said Pacers center Thomas Bryant, who played two years at Indiana University before entering the NBA in 2017.

The jerseys both have ''Indiana'' across the front, but the similarities end there between IU and the NBA's Indiana Pacers. Still, I was curious, and went to Twitter to take a poll. Hoosiers fans, how big is your love for the Pacers?

Ahead of Game 5 of the 2025 NBA Finals, Indiana Pacers head coach Rick Carlisle came to the defense of referee Scott Foster.