Official announcement! Multi-year contract! Pacers renew the team s core contract

On August 20, the Pacers officially announced that they had signed a multi-year contract extension with head coach Carlisle. Details of the contract have not been disclosed, but Carlisle's annual salary is expected to reach tens of millions of dollars. Carlisle has a regular season coaching record of 993 wins and 860 losses, and will become the 11th coach in NBA history to reach 1,000 wins next season!

In addition, Carlisle achieved 86 wins in the playoffs, ranking 10th in NBA history and fourth in active service, second only to Rivers, Spolstra and Cole. After Popovich retired and Thiboddeau was fired, Carlisle, 65, became the oldest head coach in the NBA. In recent years, the NBA coach has indeed developed toward a younger age.

Many fans may not know that this is Carlisle's second coaching Pacers. Carlisle was born on October 27, 1959 and is 1.96 meters tall. In the 1984 NBA Draft, he was selected by the Celtics with the 70th overall pick in the third round. In 1986, he won the championship with the Celtics. He only had four and a half years in his NBA career, and averaged only 2.2 points per game. In the 1989-90 season, 30-year-old Carlisle became the Nets' assistant coach. After that, he went to the Trail Blazers and Pacers to serve as assistant coaches. After more than ten years of hardship, he became the Pistons head coach in 2001! In his first season in coaching the Pistons, Carlisle led the team to 50 wins and 32 losses, winning 18 more games than the previous year. Carlisle was awarded the best coach of the year! In the 2003-04 season, Carlisle left the Pistons and became the Pacers' head coach. In the 2004-05 season, the Pacers were expected to win the championship. As a result, the "Auben Hill Incident" broke out, and many main players were suspended, and Reggie Miller retired in disgrace. In April 2007, the Pacers fired Carlisle, and a year later he went to Dallas to serve as head coach.

The Mavericks' contract to Carlisle was $17.5 million for four years, which was considered a normal salary for the coach at that time. In 2011, Carlisle helped the Mavericks win the first NBA championship in team history. In 2012, the Mavericks renewed their contract with Carlisle for four years, signed a five-year, $35 million contract extension in 2015, and officially left the team in the summer of 2021.

On June 25, 2021, Carlisle returned to the Pacers for 4 years with $29 million. The Pacers didn't even make the playoffs the year before. Now that Carlisle has brought the Pacers into the finals, he deserves a big contract!