<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> PORTLAND, Ore. -- Finally, about 9 p.m. EST, Dale Davis made his decision. The 35-year-old center will sign with the Indiana Pacers, once he clears waivers, and he will be eligible for the playoffs. As many as six teams were interested in the 6-foot-11 Davis, who was acquired by New Orleans last week and bought out of the last year of his contract. But in the end, Davis chose the Pacers over the Pistons. "Let me tell you, this was so tough for him," said James "Chubby" Wells, Davis' agent. "It was really like splitting hairs. He really liked Detroit, too. He has a lot of respect for Larry (Brown, who coached him for four seasons in Indiana) and Rasheed (Wallace, his teammate in Portland). "But his relationship with (Pacers CEO) Donnie Walsh and (president) Larry Bird goes back a long way." Davis also liked the fact that the Pacers would offer him more playing time -- he would have been the fourth big man in Detroit -- and were interested in re-signing him for next season. </div> Source About 5 years later and it looks like the Pacers are the uninamous winners of the JO trade to Portland. Hands down.
Dale Davis would add depth, but would he start over Foster and Pollard at center? Or will he back up O'Neal at power forward? Either way, this team got better. It seems like the playoffs will be much easier to make.
