{"id":242296,"date":"2025-10-26T23:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T23:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/242296\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T23:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T23:31:09","slug":"indiana-pacers-sideline-benn-mathurin-with-toe-sprain-play-minnesota-timberwolves-with-seven-players-unavailable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/242296\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Pacers sideline Benn Mathurin with toe sprain, play Minnesota Timberwolves with seven players unavailable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 The injury-ravaged <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> ruled out leading scorer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/bennedict-mathurin-872526\/1239596\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/bennedict-mathurin-872526\/1239596\" target=\"_blank\">Bennedict Mathurin<\/a> ahead of their game at Minnesota on Sunday night, leaving the defending Eastern Conference champions with seven unavailable players on the roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mathurin suffered a big toe sprain on his right foot during Indiana\u2019s 128-103 loss at Memphis on Saturday night, when he had 26 points in 28 minutes. Pacers coach Rick Carlisle declined before the game in Minnesota to discuss a timetable for Mathurin\u2019s return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rookie reserve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/taelon-peter-1043359\/1243726\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/taelon-peter-1043359\/1243726\" target=\"_blank\">Taelon Peter<\/a> also suffered a strained right groin in Memphis and was scratched along with starting point guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/andrew-nembhard-872561\/1134158\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/andrew-nembhard-872561\/1134158\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Nembhard<\/a> (left shoulder strain) and backup guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/johnny-furphy-1017286\/1475759\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/johnny-furphy-1017286\/1475759\" target=\"_blank\">Johnny Furphy<\/a> (sore left foot) for the second straight game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/tyrese-haliburton\/1132825\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/tyrese-haliburton\/1132825\" target=\"_blank\">Tyrese Haliburton<\/a>, the star guard who tore his right Achilles tendon during the NBA Finals, won\u2019t play this season. Backup point guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/tj-mcconnell\/551787\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/tj-mcconnell\/551787\" target=\"_blank\">T.J. McConnell<\/a> (left hamstring strain) and rookie guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/kam-jones-1043340\/1324173\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/kam-jones-1043340\/1324173\" target=\"_blank\">Kam Jones<\/a> (lower back stress reaction) are also out with longer-term injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Pacers beat the Timberwolves 132-130 in overtime in their only trip to Minnesota last season, with four starters sidelined by injuries and their top six scorers all out by the end of the fourth quarter. ___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 The injury-ravaged Indiana Pacers ruled out leading scorer Bennedict Mathurin ahead of their game at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-242296","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242296","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=242296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}