{"id":165051,"date":"2025-09-24T01:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T01:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/165051\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T01:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T01:16:07","slug":"pacers-add-to-guard-depth-ahead-of-start-of-training-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/165051\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers Add to Guard Depth Ahead of Start of Training Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_87ew0guy5\">The Pacers are set to pick up the pieces from a turbulent offseason following their NBA Finals defeat at the hands of the Thunder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_oa1059reg\">Star center Myles Turner has moved on in free agency to the rival Milwaukee Bucks, while All-NBA point guard Tyrese Haliburton will likely miss the season with the <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/tyrese-haliburton-tore-his-achilles-game-7-nba-finals-injury-update\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">torn Achilles suffered in the Game 7 loss<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_io5o4j8dh\">As the Pacers search for guard depth ahead of the start of training camp, the franchise has agreed to a one-year deal with veteran Mont\u00e9 Morris, <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1970638870086930541\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_jus3jl6n9\">Morris, who is entering his ninth NBA season, played in 45 games last season for the Suns, averaging 5.2 points per game on 42.6% shooting from the floor and 36.0% from three. <\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_z8s2017gv\">He could emerge as a rotational option off the bench for some much-needed microwave scoring for a Pacers team that could find offense hard to come by with a new-look starting five this season.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA on Sports Illustrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pacers are set to pick up the pieces from a turbulent offseason following their NBA Finals defeat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-165051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}