NBA fans who remember Reggie Miller's playoff heroics can thank Mel Simon for stepping forward more than a quarter century ago. Simon, who died Wednesday at the age of 82, bought the woebegone franchise with his brother, Herb, in 1983 with the intention of making it an NBA power. It worked. The Pacers, with players like the sharp-shooting Miller, Jermaine O'Neal and others, reached the... More...