{"id":201926,"date":"2025-10-10T05:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/201926\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T05:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:30:14","slug":"rick-carlisle-says-t-j-mcconnell-will-miss-at-least-1-month-with-hamstring-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/201926\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Carlisle says T.J. McConnell\u00a0will miss at least 1 month with hamstring injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1861046\" class=\"wp-image-1861046 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/mcconnell-iso-100925.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3764\" height=\"2118\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1861046\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veteran T.J. McConnell averaged 9.1 points and 4.4 assists last season in 79 games.<\/p>\n<p>Pacers backup guard\u00a0T.J. McConnell\u00a0will miss at least a month due to a hamstring injury he suffered in Indiana\u2019s first preseason game, coach Rick Carlisle said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">T.J. McConnell (left hamstring) will be out at least a month, per Coach Carlisle. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m1P5lwFTOT\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/m1P5lwFTOT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Indiana Pacers (@Pacers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pacers\/status\/1976339584436068811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 9, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>McConnell sustained his injury during Tuesday night\u2019s preseason game against the\u00a0Minnesota Timberwolves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The veteran point guard and consummate sparkplug\u00a0left in the second quarter of Tuesday\u2019s NBA preseason game against the Timberwolves in Minnesota. McConnell averaged 9.1 points and 4.4 assists per game last season and he led the NBA in total assists off the bench with 348. He averaged 9.5 points and 4.0 assists per game off the bench and also had the most total assists of the bench of any player in the playoffs with 93.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">He becomes even more important this season as the Pacers are already missing All-Star point guard Tyrese Haliburton, out for the season with an Achilles tendon tear, so having him out for the season puts the Pacers in a serious bind.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacers open the regular season on Oct. 23 against the Thunder in a rematch of the Finals.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran T.J. McConnell averaged 9.1 points and 4.4 assists last season in 79 games. Pacers backup guard\u00a0T.J. McConnell\u00a0will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82,60521],"class_list":{"0":"post-201926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-t-j-mcconnell"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201926","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=201926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}