{"id":239229,"date":"2025-10-20T19:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T19:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/239229\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T19:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T19:00:10","slug":"why-has-indiana-pacers-rookie-kam-jones-been-arrested-what-we-know-about-the-charges-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/239229\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Has Indiana Pacers Rookie Kam Jones Been Arrested? What We Know About the Charges | US News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Indiana Pacers Rookie Kam Jones was arrested on Monday morning. (Photo: X)<\/p>\n

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Indiana Pacers guard Kam Jones has been arrested in Indianapolis, just one day before the start of the 2025\u201326 NBA season. <\/p>\n

According to Mike Potter of WTHR-13 News, a state trooper attempted to stop Jones for “erratic driving” at around 9:50 am Eastern Time on Monday. The police said Jones did not comply and instead led officers on a chase along Interstate 65, which ended near the Fletcher Avenue exit, where he was taken into custody. <\/p>\n

Jones, 23, was selected by Indiana with the 38th overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft. The 6ft 5in shooting guard joined the Pacers after a four-year college career at Marquette University. <\/p>\n

He has missed the team’s entire preseason with a back injury and is expected to remain sidelined until at least next month, when the Pacers plan to reassess his fitness. <\/p>\n

In a statement, the team said: “We are aware of the situation involving Kam Jones. We are in the process of gathering additional information and will not have any additional comment on the matter at this time.” <\/p>\n

During his senior year at Marquette, Jones was named an All-American Second Team and All-Big East First Team selection, averaging 19.2 points, 5.9 assists, and 4.5 rebounds per game across 34 appearances. <\/p>\n

The Pacers signed Jones to a four-year contract \u2014 an uncommon commitment for a second-round pick. <\/p>\n

Following the draft, Pacers president of basketball operations Kevin Pritchard praised Jones’ attitude and potential, telling Forbes: “Tough kid. Loves the gym, lives for the gym. I like the fact that he played two and one\u2026 he reminds me, personality-wise, of Tyrese Haliburton. He’s hyper positive\u2026 he’s got that kind of an \u2018it factor’ of \u2018that’s a Pacer’. He’s a big-time worker. We’re excited.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana Pacers Rookie Kam Jones was arrested on Monday morning. (Photo: X) Indiana Pacers guard Kam Jones has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[4467,2652,3441,132128,132129,2653,29366,132124,132125,132126,56194,83656,132131,132130,355,13329,15990,99,16,112865,194,132127],"class_list":["post-239229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-forbes","tag-indiana","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-indiana-pacers-guard-arrest","tag-indiana-pacers-kam-jones","tag-indianapolis","tag-jones","tag-kam-jones","tag-kam-jones-arrest","tag-kam-jones-arrested","tag-kevin-pritchard","tag-marquette","tag-marquette-university","tag-mike-potter","tag-nba","tag-nba-draft","tag-pacers","tag-sports","tag-times-now","tag-tyrese","tag-us-news","tag-who-is-kam-jones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}