The Indiana Pacers announced Thursday they have signed forward Alex Poythress to a standard NBA contract. 

Poythress has been a two-way player this season, splitting time between the Pacers and the Fort Wayne Mad Ants of the G League. Poythress will no longer be a two-way player. He has appeared in 11 games for the Pacers this season.

While Paul George feels closure over his tenure with the Indiana Pacers, he does feel a sense of regret over how it ended.

"I think both sides -- myself and the front office -- would definitely like to have handled things better," George said. "I for sure will take ownership on that. But I have no regrets on the outcome."

George declined to say specifically what those regrets are. "I know what I would've changed," he said, "but I'll keep that to myself."

The Pacers traded George to the Oklahoma City Thunder for Victor Oladipo and Domantas Sabonis. Oladipo has become an All-Star candidate with the Pacers.

"It's more so of Indiana doing well -- where they're at now, that was closure for me," George said. "At the end of the day, when we reached out to the front office to tell them our plans, our future plans, it was to help them along the way, and it was bad at first, so to speak, that they thought with this trade it wasn't gonna pan out. But it obviously did.

"They got two great young pieces, so that was good for me to see that this franchise changed the locker room and [is] going in the right direction."

The Indiana Pacers will host the 2021 NBA All-Star Game.

Indianapolis last hosted the All-Star Game in 1985 when it was held in the Hoosier Dome. Ralph Sampson won MVP honors in that year's edition.

This year's All-Star Game will be held in Los Angeles, followed by Charlotte and Chicago.

Victor Oladipo and Kevin Durant have been named the NBA's Players of the Week.

Oladipo led the Pacers to four straight wins last week, averaging 30.8 points, 7.0 rebounds, 4.3 assists, and 1.8 steals. Oladipo shot 51.2 percent from the field and 47.5 from 3-point range over the four games.

Durant led the Warriors to a 3-0 record on the week, capping off a perfect six-game road-trip, and in the process becoming just the 11th team in NBA history to have a 6-0 record on a road-trip. He averaged 30.0 points to go with 9.3 rebounds, 7.3 assists, 1.00 steal and 2.67 blocks in 36.4 minutes per game.