Indiana Pacers vs. Orlando Magic Live Stream: Watch Online NBA Season Opener Streaming Tuesday

The Indiana Pacers are looking like one of the strongest teams in the eastern conference this season and after taking the Miami Heat to the limit last year, the team will open the NBA season with a game at home at Bankers Life Fieldhouse against the Orlando Magic and it will start up at 7 pm and will be on TV locally on Fox Sports Indiana and streaming online.

The game against the Magic comes before the Miami Heat and the Chicago Bulls tip off at 8 pm and then the Los Angeles Lakers and the LA Clippers will play at the Staples Center starting up at 10:30 pm. Those three games are part of the NBA tip off on Tuesday and then on Wednesday the rest of the league will get going and some of the teams will play again right away, including the Pacers, as they will be up against the New Orleans Pelicans next on the calendar. The team is coming back strong after last season and they have already made a number of upgrades to their roster, as they re-signed David West and also traded for Luis Scola, a player that the team has always liked and now he joins a talented front court that includes Roy Hibbert as well. The team bring back Paul George and Lance Stephenson and while Danny Granger will be out to start the season, he is expected to return soon.

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The Pacers opted not to bring back Tyler Hansbrough from last season, but that was more about making room for West and his new contract, while the team also had the foresight to let him go so they had enough space to get Scola from the Suns in a solid deal that should help improve the team. The Pacers also have a number of new players on the bench, including CJ Watson to help solidify things behind George Hill and the team feels that it has a strong enough squad with Frank Vogel that they can make a nice playoff run in the east against teams like the Miami Heat and the Chicago Bulls, who were able to get by the Nets without Derrick Rose in the playoffs last season.

Derrick Rose and the Bulls likely will be the top challenger to the Pacers in the Central division and players like Hibbert and George will need to step up all season to keep things going after last season. The team took the Heat to the limit and looked very strong doing so and with George looking like a potential superstar in the making, the Pacers have the firepower to stand tall with any of those teams in the East. The west is deeper than the east, as the conference has just the Chicago Bulls, Miami Heat, New York Knicks, Brooklyn Nets and the Pacers as likely top teams, while the west has the OKC Thunder, Houston Rockets, Memphis Grizzlies, San Antonio Spurs as well as the Los Angeles Clippers.

The Pacers come back after winning almost 50 games last season and they were stellar within the division, going 13-3 against the Central last season and now they come back hoping to match that number at least. Having a healthy Derrick Rose will make it tougher, but the Pacers and the Bulls should be pretty fairly matched this season, especially with the Bulls adding Mike Dunleavy and getting back a healthy Rose and Luol Deng. The Pacers come back with George as the top scorer after averaging over 17 last season, while Hibbert was the top rebounder. The team opens the season with the Orlando Magic at home on Tuesday night at 7 pm.