{"id":228520,"date":"2025-10-21T04:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T04:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/228520\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T04:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T04:37:07","slug":"indiana-pacers-extend-aaron-nesmith-on-2-year-40-4m-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/228520\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Pacers extend Aaron Nesmith on 2-year, $40.4M deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/indiana-pacers\/11\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/indiana-pacers\/11\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Pacers<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/aaron-nesmith\/1134264\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/aaron-nesmith\/1134264\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Nesmith<\/a> agreed to a two-year, $40.4 million contract extension with the franchise through the 2028-29 season, plus a trade kicker, agent Mike Lindeman of Excel Sports Management told ESPN on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Pacers gave Nesmith his maximum allowed salary ahead of Monday\u2019s deadline for veteran extensions. The deal locks in one of Indiana\u2019s best defenders after a playoff run in which he started all 23 games en route to the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nesmith had a breakthrough 2024-25 campaign, averaging career highs in field goal percentage (51%), 3-point percentage (43%) and free throw percentage (91%). He averaged 12 points and four rebounds in 45 regular-season games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nesmith was even better in the postseason as he took on top defensive assignments such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/jalen-williams-872532\/1182404\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/jalen-williams-872532\/1182404\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Williams<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/jalen-brunson\/887914\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/jalen-brunson\/887914\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Brunson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/giannis-antetokounmpo\/739957\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/giannis-antetokounmpo\/739957\" target=\"_blank\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/darius-garland-358181\/1134262\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/darius-garland-358181\/1134262\" target=\"_blank\">Darius Garland<\/a>. He also shot 49.2% on 3-pointers during the playoffs, the best by any player in a single postseason with at least 100 3-point attempts in NBA history, according to ESPN Research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana Pacers forward Aaron Nesmith agreed to a two-year, $40.4 million contract extension with the franchise through the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[109087,49,48,98724,459,82],"class_list":["post-228520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-aaron-nesmith-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-1134264","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-indiana-pacers-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-11","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228520","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=228520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}