{"id":451517,"date":"2026-02-06T00:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T00:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/451517\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T00:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T00:47:07","slug":"caitlin-clark-has-four-words-to-say-about-the-indiana-pacers-at-the-nba-trade-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/451517\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark has four words to say about the Indiana Pacers at the NBA trade deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Indiana Pacers<\/a> are thinking about the 2026-27 season now.<\/p>\n

They traded Bennedict Mathurin and Isaiah Jackson to the Los Angeles Clippers<\/a> on Thursday, Jan. 5, for center Ivica Zubac<\/a> and wing Kobe Brown<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The grades are generally (but not universally) positive<\/a>, but one interested observer makes a bold prediction: Indiana Fever<\/a> guard Caitlin Clark<\/a> posted on social media “Pacers 2027 world champions.”<\/p>\n

Clark has been part of the NBA conversation recently, making a guest appearance on NBC’s “Basketball Night in America” before a New York Knicks<\/a>–Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> game last weekend.<\/p>\n

She has developed a friendship with Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton<\/a>, and her boyfriend, Connor McCaffery, used to work for the Pacers before becoming a Butler<\/a> assistant coach.<\/p>\n

Dustin Dopirak<\/a>\u00a0covers the Pacers all season. Get more coverage on\u00a0IndyStarTV<\/a>\u00a0and with the\u00a0Pacers Insider newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on Indianapolis Star: Caitlin Clark responds to Indiana Pacers’ trade for Ivica Zubac<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Indiana Pacers are thinking about the 2026-27 season now. They traded Bennedict Mathurin and Isaiah Jackson to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[56224,211751,1760,2839,3441,211750,56197,25174,211752,11952,99,20629,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-451517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-bennedict-mathurin","9":"tag-bold-prediction","10":"tag-caitlin-clark","11":"tag-indiana-fever","12":"tag-indiana-pacers","13":"tag-interested-observer","14":"tag-isaiah-jackson","15":"tag-ivica-zubac","16":"tag-kobe-brown","17":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-tyrese-haliburton","20":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451517","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=451517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}