{"id":277571,"date":"2025-11-12T02:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/277571\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T02:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:27:09","slug":"pacers-guard-t-j-mcconnell-available-to-make-season-debut-against-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/277571\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers guard T.J. McConnell available to make season debut against Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/indiana-pacers\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"indiana-pacers\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Indiana Pacers<\/a> guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/t-j-mcconnell\/e3dfa2a2-6272-4f3f-adf0-dd5dadea9481\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"e3dfa2a2-6272-4f3f-adf0-dd5dadea9481\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">T.J. McConnell<\/a> was available to make his season debut against the Utah Jazz on Tuesday night, giving an injury-ravaged team a much-needed boost.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell missed the first 10 games after straining his left hamstring in the preseason. The 11-year veteran averaged 9.1 points and 4.4 assists last season.<\/p>\n<p>Coming off a run to the NBA Finals, the Pacers were 1-9 heading into Tuesday&#8217;s game. Two-time All-Star Tyrese Halliburton could miss the entire season after tearing his right Achilles tendon in the Game 7 loss to Oklahoma City in the title series, and forward Obi Toppin is out at least three months due to a stress fracture in his right foot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Indiana Pacers guard T.J. McConnell was available to make his season debut against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-277571","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\/277571","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=277571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}