25 Years, One Jacket, and the American Dream

25 Years, One Jacket, and the American Dream

Left: Bryan Ramirez sports an oversized Pacers jacket while smiling next to a young friend. Right: Ramirez poses in a recent snap. (Photographs courtesy Bryan Ramirez; graphic by Leslie Bonilla Muniz/Indiana Capital Chronicle)There’s a photo of me from 25 years ago — the last time the Indiana Pacers made it to the NBA Finals. I’m just a small kid in an oversized, puffy Pacers coat I got from a winter coat drive. But that jacket was more than jus…