Talk:Indiana Pacers

message: The last comment is corrent. It's named after the race horse term "pacer" although the pace car connection for the 500 is also often cited. But the horse term comes from (I believe) the early ownership also had a stake in the race hroses that used to race at the Indiana State Fairgrounds - where the team first played its home games.
Pacing is a gait used in Harness Horse Racing, which was very popular at the time. 
Too bad the logo doesn't reflect this. Would be much nicer than a generic "P".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.157.244.141 (talk) 22:46, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  the name "Pacers" 

message: Retired numbers are obviously notable.  The three listed numbers (45 for Rik Smits, 7 for Jermaine O'Neal and 10 for Jeff Foster) with the accompanying text "Though not officially retired, the following numbers have not been reissued by the team" is misleading and inherently non-notable.  First of all, the team doesn't issue a number, players choose their numbers.  That no player in the past year has chosen to take number 10 means absolutely nothing.  It's more interesting that no player has chosen to wear 7 or 45, but still does not mean there's anything to it, or that the team is preventing people from wearing them, or that the team has plans to retire the numbers.  There are surely no plans to retire the number of Jeff Foster, who while a good guy, was not a marquee player worthy of such an honor.  A bigger case could be made that Smits or O'Neal might be honored with a retired jersey number, but such an action would be a major surprise, and is certainly not likely or imminent.  Unless sources can be found saying that these numbers are not being issued in anticipation of their being retired, any listing of them implies something that is not verifiable or rooted in fact.  208.40.242.41 (talk) 18:22, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Retired numbers section 

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message: Among Wikipedia pages of all current NBA franchises that were once ABA teams, the pages for the Pacers and Nets are the only ones that list ABA championships under the championship category in the infobox. This isn’t listed on team pages for franchises like the Nuggets, for instance, nor the Spurs, most notably, and only seems like a way for teams with zero NBA championships to try to save face by hometown Wikipedia editors. While it certainly is acceptable to discuss the ABA history of the franchise within the main article, including those successes, it seems inappropriate to list those under the “Championships” section of the infobox, especially since most other NBA teams that were formerly ABA franchises don’t do this. For the sake of consistency and clarity, only NBA championships should be listed in the infobox. The only other option would be to include the same information under all other formerly ABA team pages for consistency, but it would be less confusing to stick with just NBA championships listed for all current teams. Maximilian77 (talk) 04:31, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Only NBA Championships should be listed in Infobox