Editing Indiana Pacers (section)

==Head coaches==
{{Main|List of Indiana Pacers head coaches}}
There have been 13 head coaches for the Pacers franchise. [[Larry Staverman]] was the first coach of the team in 1967, when the team was in the ABA. Coach [[Bobby Leonard]] has the most wins in franchise history, with 529 in his 12 seasons with the team. After Leonard, [[Jack McKinney (basketball)|Jack McKinney]], [[George Irvine (basketball)|George Irvine]], and [[Jack Ramsay]]. When Ramsay abruptly resigned in 1988 after the team got off to a hweak start, Pacers legend [[Mel Daniels]] took over on an interim basis for two games, before Irvine returned for 20 more. [[Dick Versace]] then led the Pacers through another sub-par stretch before [[Bob Hill]] got the Pacers back to the playoffs and into contention. Then in 1993, [[Larry Brown (basketball)|Larry Brown]] joined the Pacers franchise and led the team to many playoff appearances as [[Reggie Miller]] blossomed into a superstar and eventual Hall of Famer. [[Larry Bird]] took over the team in 1997 and coached until 2000. Bird took the Pacers to their only [[NBA Finals]] appearance in the [[2000 NBA Finals|1999–2000 season]]. [[Isiah Thomas]], [[Rick Carlisle]], and [[Jim O'Brien (basketball, born 1952)|Jim O'Brien]] were next up as the Pacers top coach. The most recent head coach of the Pacers was [[Frank Vogel]], until May&nbsp;5, 2016, when his contract was not renewed after the number 7 seeded Pacers lost Game&nbsp;7 of the first round of the [[2016 NBA playoffs]] to the number two seeded [[Toronto Raptors]]. Subsequently, associate head coach [[Nate McMillan]] was promoted to the top spot.  After four seasons in which he compiled a 183–136 record, McMillan and the team parted ways on August&nbsp;26, 2020, just two weeks after it had been announced that the team had re-signed him.  On October&nbsp;20, 2020, the team hired former Toronto Raptors assistant coach [[Nate Bjorkgren]] as their new head coach. Bjorkgren would lead the Pacers to a 34–38 record in his lone season and the team missed the playoffs. On June&nbsp;24, 2021, the Pacers re-hired [[Rick Carlisle]] for a second stint as the team's head coach.