The Pacers didn't own one of our picks, and if they did, you can sure as heck bet they would have been rooting against us.
We have no way of knowing if that would have been true or not. I'm just not that cynical. If you've ever visited any Pacer boards, I think you'll find the vast majority of them were more than glad to see him gone. And they wished us good luck for the simple reason they knew we'd need it.