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As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team.  That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity.  As such, we are very happy to present our post 2022/23 revision of our top 50 Indiana Pacers.

As for all of our top 50 players in basketball we look at the following:

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National Basketball Association.

3.  Playoff accomplishments.

4.  Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.

Last year, Indiana again failed to make the playoffs but we have two new entrants and one elevation nevertheless.

As always, we present our top five, which was not affected by the last season:

1. Reggie Miller

2. Mel Daniels

3. George McGinnis

4. Roger Brown

5. Billy Knight

You can find the entire list here.

Myles Turner advanced two spots to #17.

The two new entries are Tyrese Haliburton and T.J. McConnell who debut at #47 and #50 respectively.

We welcome your input and comments and as always, we thank you for your support.

After four seasons with the Philadelphia 76ers, T.J. McConnell signed with the Indiana Pacers in 2019, where he has been their back-up Point Guard ever since.

McConnell never had the makeup to be an elite player, as he is undersized and lacks great athleticism, but made up for it with strong decision making, solid pass distribution and a sound defensive game.  In a game in 2021, McConnell set the record with nine Steals in a Game and became to first player to come off the bench with a triple-double in Steals, Assists and Points.  McConnell finished first that season in Steals and Steals per Game.  Last season, McConnell had his first double-digit Points year (10.2) and was seventh in Sixth Man of the Year voting on a team that went to the ECF,

McConnell is still with Indiana and though he is a bench player, can still move up significantly on this list.

Tyrese Haliburton was traded from Sacramento to Indiana in a deal that can best be described as both teams in rebuilding mode trying to see what might fit.  Sacramento made the playoffs first after the deal, but the Pacers landed a player who became an All-Star.

In Indiana, Haliburton had the opportunity to become more of a focal point, and he finished the 2021-22 season with the Pacers with 17.5 Points per Game over 26 contests.  In 2022-23, Haliburton started the year on fire, and he went to his first All-Star Game.  Now the top performer of his squad, Haliburton, who was injured late in the year but had the best season of his life with a double-double average of 10.1 Assists and 20.7 Points.  He was even better last season, earning a Third Team All-NBA, another All-Star, and his first Assists Title with 10.9.  Haliburton also averaged over 20 Points per Game (20.1), and took the Pacers to the Eastern Conference Finals.

As Haliburton is still well under 30, we could see multiple All-Stars in his future.

Regular visitors of Notinhalloffame.com know that we are slowly working on the top 50 of every major team in the NHL, NBA, NFL and MLB.  Once that is done, we intend to look at how each team honor their past players, coaches and executives.  As such, it is important to us that the

Pittsburgh Penguins will be retiring the number 68 of Jaromir Jagr on February 18.

Jagr scored 1,079 of his 1,733 career NHL Points with Pittsburgh, a team he played 11 seasons (1990-91 to 2000-01), won the 1998-Hart Trophy, five Art Ross Trophies and won two Stanley Cups (1991 & 1992).

Jagr currently owns the Kladno Knights of the Czech League, who he played for last year, and could still again, as he has not yet officially retired despite being 51.  The Hockey Hall of Fame does not consider a player eligible until he stopped playing hockey in all major competitive leagues, hence why Jagr, who last played in the NHL in 2018, is not yet inducted.

He will become the third player to have his number retired by the Penguins, following Michael Briere (#21) and Mario Lemieux (#66).

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to congratulate Jaromir Jagr for his impending honor.