Indiana Pacers CEO Donnie Walsh understands the negative vibe rising from the streets and filtering through the media. But he asks for more time.

Time for Scot Pollard and Anthony Johnson to show what they can do in a new environment. Time for him to make other additions and trades.

Time for emotions to settle.

Walsh presented a defensive and at times defiant posture Thursday during a news conference to confirm his team’s three-way trade with Sacramento and San Antonio.

Brad Miller, an All-Star in his only full season with the Pacers, goes to Sacramento for former Kansas University player Pollard and Hedo Turkoglu. Turkoglu and Ron Mercer go to San Antonio for Danny Ferry’s non-guaranteed contract, which can be released or used in another trade.

The result is the Pacers traded Miller for Pollard and maintained the financial flexibility to try to re-sign Reggie Miller and perhaps another free agent.

Walsh also confirmed the addition of Johnson, a six-year veteran who backed up point guard Jason Kidd in New Jersey the past two seasons.

“I would say, ‘Wait until you see Scot Pollard play; wait until you see our team play,”’ Walsh said Thursday at a hastily arranged news conference at Conseco Fieldhouse. “I wouldn’t make judgment off of stats or what you think you know.

“I think they’ll like (Pollard) and I know they’ll like Anthony Johnson.

“If you want to do a day-to-day commentary with all this, you can do that. But the simple fact is, it’s what happens from the beginning of the summer until we go to training camp. Then we’ll know what kind of club we’ll have.

“I feel good about our talent.”

Walsh said re-signing Reggie Miller becomes the next priority, a task that should be facilitated by the trade. He’s also seeking another backcourt shooter, with Jon Barry a possibility.

Barry visited the Pacers last Friday. His agent is Arn Tellem, who also represents Reggie Miller, Jermaine O’Neal and Jonathan Bender.

The loss of Brad Miller was a disappointment to both sides. Miller, after all, had walked into Walsh’s office his first day with the team after arriving in a seven-player swap with Chicago in February 2002 and half-jokingly asked for an immediate contract extension. He was tired of moving and he was back in his home state.

The scene was markedly different on Thursday when Miller — undrafted out of Purdue in 1998 — stopped by Walsh’s office to sign a seven-year, $68 million contract that exceeded anything either he or Walsh had imagined.

Walsh humorously recounted their conversation.

“I wanted to stay here, but my agent went crazy!” Walsh said on behalf of Miller, imitating his dumbfounded reaction.