Don't Sleep on Oladipo and the Indiana Pacers

Many people coming into this NBA season said the Eastern Conference was going to be absolute garbage. Kyrie Irving and Gordon Hayward to the Celtics were going to make them playoff contenders and of course you cannot forget about the reigning Eastern Conference Champions, the Cleveland Cavaliers. Everyone thinks there is nobody else in the East that could contend with them, or is there? A team that has been on the uprising for the last week is the Indiana Pacers and their breakout-star Victor Oladipo. I'm not making any quick assumptions that he is going to win MVP this year, but so far he is surely playing like one. The man is averaging close to 25 PPG, 4 APG, and a little over 5 RPG. He had an incredible 47-point overtime performance against the Denver Nuggets two days ago and has been helping his team all-around. Currently, the team is 5th in the East but are on a four game winning streak and have won seven out of their last ten games. Also, they are 3rd in the East averaging an astonishing 109 PPG which is the highest average of PPG in the team's recent history. Besides Oladipo, they have a lot of young talent including Myles Turner and Domantas Sabonis who are a dynamic duo down low. They have a veteran backcourt as well including Lance Stephenson, who has been playing well as of late, and the talented guard Darren Collison. After Paul George had left for Oklahoma City, the Pacers were going to look like another below-average team that was probably going to miss the playoffs. But with their recent resurgence and consistent play of Oladipo, this team has a good chance to be a big threat in the East come playoff time.