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@HenryInvests Has anyone tracked the performance of these partners over time? Some have been around for some time now and I wonder if Upstart has given them any evident uplift in competitiveness somehow.

USF Credit Union Selects Upstart for Personal Lending $UPST

@AKRileyy5 That's a good thing

Rik Smits was the last top 4 pick my franchise is ever seeing. I should have just accepted that a long time ago

@BenJustJamin13 Now we can focus on what really matters... Putting Tyrese on a diet

Pacers feel like a day trader who took 25k up to a 1 million dollars And then just gambled on a big option trade and lost 400 grand. Still got 600k in the bank We good.

@Kernel388356 @PacersKev I know you're trying to dunk on me but I have always been against tanking so TBH I agree with you

@Denbee_25 @PacersKev That’s what you get for tanking big dog

I'm really sorry to all our fans. I own taking this risk. Surprised it came up 5th after this year. I thought we were due some luck. But please remember - this team deserved a starting center to compete with the best teams next year. We have always been resilient.

@_PacersTalk Sixers tanked for years and years and got several top picks look at them now LOL

Après je vais pas vous mentir. Quand on voit le nom des équipes de cette draft, on méritait tellement pas d'avoir un top pick haha. Des équipes en galère depuis 10 ans VS nous qui avons tout pour retourner en finales l'an pro. Mais le plus dur c'est de juste pas avoir de choix

@kobebrez5188 @chase8644899839 @PacersKev I'm a lifelong Pacers fan I knew better than to hope for anything in the lottery!

@Denbee_25 @chase8644899839 @PacersKev You gotta be devastated by the lottery results. Almost as much as I am by the playoff results. But at least the Celtics didn’t trash a season for nothing.

@chase8644899839 @kobebrez5188 @PacersKev Guy's acting like KP personally cut Hali's Achilles following a strategy meeting

@kobebrez5188 @Denbee_25 @PacersKev Go look at pacers injury reports from November and December. Make me laugh

@quisknif3232 @PacersKev Benn was an expiring contract we only "lost" him for the remainder of the past season. Weren't going to extend him at his value.

@Denbee_25 @PacersKev Losing 2 1st a 2nd and a young player for a 30 year old center next yea it not "still a good trade"

@Covfefe_ism @TheDestinAdams For a team with an established core and an identity (that took it to within 24 minutes of a championship even after the Scott Foster game 4), continuity and growth counts for a lot.

@Denbee_25 @TheDestinAdams Lol you're assuming other teams won't make significant moves?..the wizards already look like a contender,on top of the Knicks and Detroit and that's only the east Beside it all depends on Hali. If he's still the same player

Bring me Trey Murphy and lets take out our anger on the rest of the league next year

@_Facci Acting like it wasn't virtually 50/50 we get this outcome

Welp, the worst case scenario happened….

@TheDestinAdams Don't you realize we could have used the 5th pick to resurrect prime Wilt Chamberlain??? /s

Before people jump to how “stupid” they think the trade is now Show me what centers they could have realistically traded the fifth pick for that would be better than Zu I'll wait

@TheDestinAdams This is obviously correct

@TheDestinAdams Totally agree. People are acting like we traded away a top 4 pick. Emotions mixed up.

Just to get it out there now I'd rather Zubac on the Pacers than any player we would have picked at 5 or 6 and in the case that we would have traded it, it likely would have had to be for a center So the trade is worth the risk to me even if they see the pick go to LA today

@YeahYeahOkBro Didn't just get to the finals, was leading at halftime of game 7 (with an injured leader)

Even with getting hoed in the lottery, we’re going into next year with a better starting 5 than the one we went to the Finals with

@masonyo25 100%

Plenty of Pacers fans already saying that the Zubac trade isn’t worth it now. They are completely wrong. No one we would’ve gotten at 5 would be any better than Zubac. Plus, if we don’t tank, we don’t get Zubac. Still a great trade.

@kferdinandddd @YeahYeahOkBro Is this Shai's burner

@YeahYeahOkBro Trade Siakam and zubac to semi contenders for young pieces( thinking like risacher level) and picks and have them develop around Hali and his system, run it back in like 2030 since Hali’s game will most likely improve with age

Alright, what’s the contingency plan? What are some names we could make a move for

@YeahYeahOkBro What are you talking about. We already made the move. Zubac for the pick. Benn wasn't staying anyway. No reason to rush to displace Pascal/Nesmith/Nemby. All deliver in the playoffs. I'd rather they concentrate on the basketball rather than the roster at this point.

@C2_Cooper Lifetime Pacers fan here. Obviously disappointing to lose the pick. But there really should be no rewards for losing.

We watched the team’s franchise player sustain a major injury in the most heartbreaking way possible on the cusp of a championship. Then, watched the rest of the team get torpedoed by non-stop injuries. There were two franchise-worst losing streaks. Now, this.