Gone Fishing! The Pacers season officially ended last night, so where will soon to be unrestricted free agent David West end up?!
He talked about it last night after the game. Check out what he had to say…
Via NBA.com:
David West said Monday that he plans to re-sign with the Pacers when he becomes an unrestricted free agent this summer.
“That’s something I’ll sit down and discuss,” West said, after Indiana’s 99-76 loss to Miami in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals. “This is my group. These are my guys. I can’t see myself going anywhere else. We’re the second-best team in the Eastern Conference, one of the top four teams in the league, in my estimation.”
After spending the first eight years on his career with the Hornets, West signed a two-year, $20 million deal with the Pacers in Dec. 2011. After a bit of a down year in 2011-12 as he bounced back from a knee injury that ended his 2010-11 season, West had an All-Star caliber season this year and helped lead the Pacers to the Eastern Conference finals for the first time since 2004. The other four Pacers starters — George Hill, Paul George, Roy Hibbert and Lance Stephenson — are all under contract for next season, as is All-Star forward Danny Granger, who missed most of the season and all of the 2013 postseason with a knee injury.
“This group is a solid group,” West continued. “Gives me as an individual the best chance to accomplish the goals that I have left in terms of my future, and that’s competing at this stage of the game every single year from here on out.”
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