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    Pacers fire coach Jim O'Brien after 3-plus seasons, appoint Frank Vogel interim coach

    Jim O'Brien's future as the Indiana Pacers' coach was in question heading into a four-game trip, and team president Larry Bird didn't get the answers he wanted.Bird fired O'Brien on Sunday after the team squandered a promising start to the season by losing seven of its past eight games.Bird had discussed the team's coaching options with owner Herb Simon, saying he wanted to see how the team performed on a Western swing against the Los Angeles Clippers, Golden State, Portland and Denver.The Pacers lost all four games."We were in three of the games, and the Denver game, we didn't really have a chance," Bird said.The Pacers returned to Indiana to play the Orlando Magic on Wednesday night, with O'Brien's status tenuous. Orlando won 111-96, and Bird had seen enough."We came home to Orlando, and really, the game was over in the first three minutes," Bird said. "So that's when I really started thinking that we really probably needed to do something. I called Mr. Simon up and he said, 'whateve...

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