{"id":2739,"date":"2025-07-11T23:12:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T23:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/2739\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T23:12:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T23:12:04","slug":"isaiah-jackson-pacers-agree-to-3-year-21m-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/2739\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaiah Jackson, Pacers agree to 3-year, $21M deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free agent center <a data-player-guid=\"4df234c9-e02d-3a02-8e36-9955ff214fa1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4432170\/isaiah-jackson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isaiah Jackson<\/a> has agreed to a three-year, $21 million deal to return to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"547fc042-3e02-4795-9637-9ab84322b625\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/ind\/indiana-pacers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Pacers<\/a>, CAA&#8217;s Drew Morrison and Sam Rose told ESPN on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>After losing Myles Turner in free agency, the Pacers re-signed big man James Wiseman, traded for 7-footer Jay Huff and now are excited about Jackson&#8217;s development as another young member of their core.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/45678977\/grizzlies-trade-veteran-center-jay-huff-pacers\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/r1407252_2_683x683_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/45690444\/pacers-were-fully-prepared-go-tax-myles-turner\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/r1502400_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>The Pacers announced the deal with Jackson later Friday but did not disclose terms.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson, 23 missed the majority of last season after he tore his right Achilles tendon in early November. Wiseman also suffered an Achilles injury just weeks earlier, limiting Indiana&#8217;s frontcourt options early in that season.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023-24, his last fully healthy year, Jackson averaged 7.0 points, 5.6 rebounds and 1.6 blocks in just under 17 minutes per game.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson landed in Indiana via a five-team trade in the summer of 2021 after he was drafted in the first round by the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"2876e98b-b9bc-2920-4319-46e6943f8be4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/lal\/los-angeles-lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Free agent center Isaiah Jackson has agreed to a three-year, $21 million deal to return to the Indiana&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-2739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739","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=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}