Larry Bird will remain the President of Basketball Operations for the Indiana Pacers.
In a statement released on Tuesday Pacers Owner Herb Simon said, “I’m quite pleased with the success we experienced this past season and pleased with the direction our team is going. I’m glad Larry is staying to help us continue in the positive direction we are going.”
The Pacers finished the season 20-18 after firing Jim O’Brien and naming Frank Vogel as the team’s interim head coach. Indiana lost in the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs to the top seeded Chicago Bulls.
“He gave us a three-year plan, and I think he’s lived up to his three-year plan,” Simon said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. “He said it would be tough going, but by the third year, he thought we could probably make the playoffs, which he did, and that we would have cap space to build upon the core group that he’s established.”
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