Should the Pacers Get Their Pick Back After Kawhi's Clippers Scandal?

Alex Golden and Mike Facci are back, and there is A LOT to discuss after the NBA dropped the hammer on the Los Angeles Clippers. The Clippers were found to have violated the NBA's salary-cap circumvention rules involving Kawhi Leonard, resulting in massive penalties—including the loss of five future first-round picks. And somehow, the Indiana Pacers are directly involved in the fallout. One of the selections Los Angeles is losing is the Pacers' unprotected 2029 first-round pick, which Indiana originally sent to the Clippers as part of the trade for Ivica Zubac. So Alex and Facci ask the obvious question: Should the Pacers get their pick back? The guys debate whether Indiana should benefit from the Clippers' wrongdoing, why the NBA decided to eliminate the pick instead of returning it to the Pacers and whether losing one of the major assets from the deal changes how we should evaluate the Zubac trade from Los Angeles' perspective. Then, Alex and Facci go down the Kawhi Leonard rabbit hole and look at the