Slight Pacers Edge

Indiana captured the clearly stronger realized value in this transaction with New Orleans Pelicans. Indiana received rights to Edmond Sumner and sent $1M cash. The Pacers side is graded B-, compared with C+ for the aggregate the other team return. Because this was a lower-impact transaction, the grade is intentionally compressed; modest cash, rights, or late-pick differences are not inflated into franchise-level wins or losses.