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Pacers to honor late co-owner Mel Simon
Posted Nov 5 2009 2:22AM
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The Indiana Pacers will honor their late co-owner Mel Simon with a jersey-retirement ceremony before Friday's game against the Washington Wizards.
The Pacers said Wednesday the banner will hang alongside the retired jerseys of former players Reggie Miller, Mel Daniels, Roger Brown and George McGinnis, and ex-coach Bobby Leonard.
Simon, who died in September at the age of 82, bought the woebegone franchise with his brother, Herb, in 1983. Herb Simon told The Associated Press by telephone that he expects a small, dignified ceremony.
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