Pacers Introduce T.J. Ford, Other New Faces

July 16, 2008 | By Bill Benner Press Conference Transcript The windows were closed Wednesday in Conseco Fieldhouse, but you could feel the breeze, anyway. The winds of change officially had arrived. Photographers needed wide-angle lenses to capture the moment. For there, in the Fuson-Collins Interview Room, were T.J. Ford, Maceo Baston, Jarrett Jack, Josh McRoberts, Brandon Rush and Roy Hibbert. New Pacers all. And even that group shot still was incomplete. Rasho Nesterovic couldn’t make the second of two news conferences (he’s in Europe) to introduce the veterans acquired in trades and the two rookies – Rush and Hibbert – arriving via the draft. Perhaps never in Pacers history has the team’s uniform provider had such a concentrated period of activity, stitching all those new names. Certainly, it is too early to determine if... [read full story]