(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 1967 1970 1972 1973 1987 Pacers Team Formation In early 1967, a group of six investors among them attorney Richard Tinkham, John DeVoe, Chuck DeVoe, sports agent Chuck Barnes and Indianapolis Star sports writer Bob Collins pooled their resources to purchase a franchise in the proposed American Basketball Association. For their first seven years, they …