Pacing the Indiana Pacers at this point of NBA Season

The halfway point of the NBA Basketball season has finally come to pass.

Yep, it has been 41 games already and we have already seen numerous things took place that we taught we'll never see. One of which was of course Allen Iverson being traded by the Philadelphia 76ers to the Denver Nuggets.

We also saw the now infamous Knicks – Nuggets brawl, the sequel to that war at the Palace of Auburn Hills between the Pistons and the Pacers. Oh yeah, speaking of the Pistons, we saw Detroit sign Chris Webber. And if that wasn't newsworthy enough, Webber decided to wear number 84.

But perhaps no team has this much going on after the first half of the season as the Indiana Pacers.

Get this, they had a tough road schedule, they played inconsistently, then they saw Jermaine O'Neal play worthy of Defensive Player of the Year honors and then they traded two starters, Stephen Jackson and Al Harrington, trading the latter again in the very year they got him back from Atlanta.

All of these in the first 41 games of the NBA Basketball season.

A fast start was the last thing anybody expected from the Indiana Pacers after they added eight new players last summer. But fans didn't expect losses to struggling teams like Minnesota, Charlotte and Boston, either, or to see their big offseason acquisition traded before the midpoint of the season.

As of press time, the Indiana Pacers are hovering around .500 and in a weak Eastern Conference, that could be good enough for a high playoff seeding in April.

''We've been up and down,'' Indiana Pacers CEO Donnie Walsh said. ''I'm pleased with the record because with the schedule, we could have been taken out of it early with the new players. Now we have to protect our home court, and with the trade, we have to come together real quick.''

Either that or they will make another cockamamie deal again.

Can the Indiana Pacers make it to the NBA Playoffs? Who will win the 2007 NBA Championship? Here are some odds from Bodog:

Chicago Bulls 7/1

Detroit Pistons 9/1

Dallas Mavericks 7/2

Miami Heat 4/1 (boo!)

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