8:43pm: Rick Bonnell tweets that a trade sending Augustin to the Pacers is unlikely, while Conrad Brunner of Fox Sports Indiana wonders, via Twitter, if Tyler Hansbrough might be part of such a deal.
7:41pm: The Pacers are pursuing a trade with the Bobcats for restricted free agent point guard D.J. Augustin, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports. Indiana has considered simply tendering Augustin an offer sheet, but prefer to make a trade, according to Wojnarowski (Twitter links). The Pacers just agreed to take on Ian Mahinmi in a sign-and-trade that sent out Dahntay Jones and Darren Collison.
The Pacers agreed to a five-year, $40MM deal with George Hill already this month, so unless they decide to go small, either Hill or Augustin would come off the bench. The Pacers have apparently had their eyes on Augustin for a while, as Mike Wells of the Indianapolis Star says they tried to acquire him as part of a deal that included T.J. Ford a couple of years ago (Twitter links).
Damn pacers what are they thinking trading darren ..id rather have darren here then hill
DC cannot shoot! Hill is a complete player who can shoot threes and play defense. The Pacers went into the playoffs on a strong note AFTER the change in PG.
The worst thing happen when bird walked away. The trailblazers ran this guy out of town for a reason. We are a player away for being elite noe this stupid move. The Green move I like Lance not ready yet we have to get Dj for these move to makes sense. I hope we want become the laughing stock of the league
DJ is the perfect point Guard for this team he is smart can shoot and get his own shot. Lance is going to make impact this year, Trade Hill for Augustin and get lance those min. he can flat out score.