Pacers don’t look like a tanking team at all

Mathurin scored 8 points on 2-for-8 shooting against the Pelicans. Mathur in on pace to score 20 points per game this season. The Pacers won the game, moving to 5–5 on the season and showing surprising resilience. The teams expected to be tanking have been surprisingly successful. San Antonio, Utah, Houston, Oklahoma City and Indiana are within a game of .500. Los Angeles Lakers are also within .5 of winning. They are expected not to win more than 30 games. Tyrese Haliburton had a great game with 20-points and 13 assists.

Pacers don't look like a tanking team. Last week was an eventful one in the NBA for a number of the wrong reasons.