The building where the Indiana Pacers and Fever play their home games will continue to be called Bankers Life Fieldhouse, for now.

The deadline for the 20-year naming rights deal with CNO Financial Group expired June 30. Pacers Sports & Entertainment executives confirmed Monday, however, that the building will continue being called Bankers Life Fieldhouse – not something like “The Fieldhouse” or “Pacers Fieldhouse” – until a new naming rights sponsor is found.

“Most of the Bankers Life Fieldhouse signage will remain in place for the time being,” Brent Rockwood, vice president of corporate, community and public relations for Pacers Sports & Entertainment said. “The CNO Financial Group has been a great long-time partner of ours and we’re continuing our partnership with them in other areas of our business.”

Rockwood also said there’s "no hard and fast" deadline to find a new naming rights sponsor for the building that had also been called Conseco Fieldhouse since opening in 1999. This is a message Pacers Sports & Entertainment has been consistent with in the past couple months. He also said that Pacers Sports & Entertainment is “currently engaged in ongoing discussions, which are at various stages with a number of potential partners.”

So when could the fieldhouse have a new name?

“It just depends on the discussions we’re having and how those unfold,” Rockwood said. “Really, our focus is finding the right long-term partner that fits with our brand and our values for the long-term. We’re more focused on that as opposed to making a quick deal with a self-imposed deadline.”

With the conversations that have been had, Rockwood says there’s been no interest from sponsors removing the name "fieldhouse" from the building.

“There’s huge equity value in the name, fieldhouse, itself,” Rockwood said. “So, in all of our conversations that we’ve had, our potential partners have not discussed removing the fieldhouse name.”

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