Part of that is, unfortunately, due to how badly the Pacers messed up their draft picks. While the Duarte draft pick is quite bad, it's from this point onwards that the microscope was on every single draft pick. The ghosts of wasted draft picks litter Pacers' rosterIn the first offseason after acquiring Haliburton, the Pacers held the sixth overall pick. Sadly, the last first-round draft pick the Pacers hit on was probably Myles Turner in 2015. If the Pacers run out of time with their veteran-led supporting cast for Haliburton, this will be the reason why—a series of wasted draft picks that could have been avoided.