{"id":189281,"date":"2026-04-08T07:21:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189281\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T07:21:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:21:35","slug":"indiana-faces-brooklyn-on-3-game-skid-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189281\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana faces Brooklyn on 3-game skid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indiana Pacers<\/a> (18-61, 14th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets<\/a> (20-59, 13th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

New York; Thursday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Indiana looks to end its three-game skid with a victory over Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

The Nets are 14-34 in Eastern Conference games. Brooklyn is at the bottom of the Eastern Conference averaging only 106.1 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Pacers have gone 14-35 against Eastern Conference opponents. Indiana is 6-36 in games decided by 10 or more points.<\/p>\n

The Nets’ 13.1 made 3-pointers per game this season are just 0.9 more made shots on average than the 12.2 per game the Pacers give up. The Pacers average 13.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.9 more makes per game than the Nets give up.<\/p>\n

The teams play for the third time this season. The Pacers won the last meeting 115-110 on Feb. 12. Jarace Walker<\/a> scored 23 points to help lead the Pacers to the win.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Nic Claxton<\/a> is scoring 11.7 points per game with 6.9 rebounds and 3.7 assists for the Nets. Nolan Traore<\/a> is averaging 10.5 points and 2.1 rebounds while shooting 37.8% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Pascal Siakam<\/a> is averaging 24 points, 6.6 rebounds and 3.8 assists for the Pacers. Obi Toppin<\/a> is averaging 11.8 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Nets: 3-7, averaging 104.4 points, 33.3 rebounds, 24.3 assists, 10.3 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 45.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.0 points per game.<\/p>\n

Pacers: 3-7, averaging 120.9 points, 38.4 rebounds, 33.7 assists, 7.2 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 51.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 125.2 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Nets: Ziaire Williams: day to day (foot), Noah Clowney: day to day (ankle), Nic Claxton: day to day (hand), Danny Wolf<\/a>: out for season (ankle), Egor Demin<\/a>: out for season (foot), Day’Ron Sharpe: out for season (thumb), Michael Porter<\/a> Jr.: out for season (hamstring), Terance Mann<\/a>: day to day (achilles).<\/p>\n

Pacers: T.J. McConnell<\/a>: day to day (hamstring), Kobe Brown: day to day (back), Johnny Furphy: out for season (knee), Andrew Nembhard<\/a>: day to day (back), Ben Sheppard<\/a>: day to day (hip), Ivica Zubac: out for season (rib), Pascal Siakam: day to day (back), Aaron Nesmith: day to day (neck), Tyrese Haliburton: out for season (achilles).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana Pacers (18-61, 14th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (20-59, 13th in the Eastern Conference) New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[17558,54657,98,100,355,99,7937,5235,54398,9129,55018,4600,4568,9,24,4601,7934,63,17557,54655,17556,4606],"class_list":{"0":"post-189281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-andrew-nembhard","9":"tag-ben-sheppard","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","12":"tag-brooklyn-nets","13":"tag-brooklyn-news","14":"tag-danny-wolf","15":"tag-egor-demin","16":"tag-event_preview","17":"tag-indiana-pacers","18":"tag-jarace-walker","19":"tag-michael-porter-jr","20":"tag-national-basketball-association","21":"tag-new-york","22":"tag-new-york-city","23":"tag-nic-claxton","24":"tag-nolan-traore","25":"tag-nyc","26":"tag-obi-toppin","27":"tag-pascal-siakam","28":"tag-t-j-mcconnell","29":"tag-terance-mann"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}