{"id":548192,"date":"2026-03-18T11:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548192\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T11:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:04:10","slug":"biggest-x-factor-for-every-nba-team-with-3-weeks-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548192\/","title":{"rendered":"Biggest X-Factor for Every NBA Team with 3 Weeks To Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">In this gap year without the recovering Tyrese Haliburton, the Indiana Pacers have had a whopping 27 players appear in a game for them this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Right now, Haliburton, Johnny Furphy (both out for the year), Andrew Nembhard, Ben Sheppard, Pascal Siakam, T.J. McConnell, Ivica Zubac, Aaron Nesmith, Quenton Jackson, Obi Toppin, and Micah Potter are all on the injury report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">And you can be sure the team will be\u00a0very\u00a0cautious about the return timelines for all of them. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Expect a handful more season debuts from players on 10-day or two-way contracts. Expect plenty more funky lineups. And expect more losses between now and the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Pacers are doing what&#8217;s right for their organization. If this campaign results in the addition of one of this draft class&#8217; potential stars, this will have been worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this gap year without the recovering Tyrese Haliburton, the Indiana Pacers have had a whopping 27 players&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-548192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548192","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=548192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}