15) Indiana PacersStrengths The Pacers, winners of their last five games, are playing the best baske. “The knowledge of the game and what it looked like and how it was played was so strange and foreign to Americans in so many ways. He watched firsthand as the league his father bought into for $2,500 in 1933 became a multi-billion dollar, year-round business. And at 37, he was probably not going to get a better opportunity than the one he found himself with on the last day of the Masters.