McKinney Takes Pacers to Court

Former Indiana Pacer Coach Jack McKinney sued the National Basketball Assn. team Tuesday, seeking $89,706 that he says the Pacers owe him.

The suit, filed in Marion County Superior Court 6, claims that the Pacers were to pay McKinney $175,000 “if the option to unilaterally terminate (the contract) was exercised.”

The Pacers fired McKinney on April 25, 1984, after finishing with a league-worst record of 26-56.

In the suit, McKinney says that the Kansas City Kings, his next employer, paid him $85,291 as coach and, later, as scout. The Pacers owe him the difference between that and $175,000, he claims.