{"id":167149,"date":"2025-09-25T02:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/167149\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T02:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:29:07","slug":"monte-morris-agrees-to-1-year-deal-with-pacers-agents-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/167149\/","title":{"rendered":"Monte Morris agrees to 1-year deal with Pacers, agents say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free agent guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3059310\/monte-morris\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Monte Morris<\/a> has agreed to a one-year deal with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"547fc042-3e02-4795-9637-9ab84322b625\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/ind\/indiana-pacers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Pacers<\/a>, his agents, Andy Shiffman and Mark Bartelstein of Priority Sports, told ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Entering his ninth NBA season, Morris provides backcourt depth to the Pacers, who will be without star guard <a data-player-guid=\"c4a0ba92-4e50-60af-a617-3345255115a7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4396993\/tyrese-haliburton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyrese Haliburton<\/a> for the entire season because of a ruptured Achilles tendon.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/46304114\/nba-rank-2025-2026-flagg-beal-reaves-best-players-100-51\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758767347_315_nba_top_100_51-100_gif_1x1.gif&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.gif\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Morris, 30, spent last season with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c6eade89-5971-0e84-8ccb-cd91482b2b50\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/phx\/phoenix-suns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Suns<\/a> on a one-year, $2.8 million deal. In 45 games, he averaged 5.2 points, 1.5 rebounds and 1.6 assists.<\/p>\n<p>He was originally drafted by the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c4aceb39-0eb9-a30b-1120-9cb5b12b677a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/den\/denver-nuggets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> in the second round in 2017. He played for five years in Denver.<\/p>\n<p>Morris has also spent time with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"64d73af6-b8ec-e213-87e8-a4eab3a692e7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/wsh\/washington-wizards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Wizards<\/a>, <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"13f727cb-254d-b484-a337-93fcc0047add\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/min\/minnesota-timberwolves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> and <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"4e096981-dc02-51d0-3dcd-2468fcc1e22d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/det\/detroit-pistons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Pistons<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Free agent guard Monte Morris has agreed to a one-year deal with the Indiana Pacers, his agents, Andy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-167149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}