{"id":49066,"date":"2025-10-11T21:41:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T01:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/pacers-mcconnell-out-due-to-injury-payne-strengthens-the-roster\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T21:41:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T01:41:59","slug":"pacers-mcconnell-out-due-to-injury-payne-strengthens-the-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nba\/pacers-mcconnell-out-due-to-injury-payne-strengthens-the-roster\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers: McConnell Out Due to Injury; Payne Strengthens the Roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>T.J. McConnell Out with Injury: Pacers Adjust Roster<\/h2>\n\nIndiana Pacers backup point guard T.J. McConnell will be out for at least a month due to a hamstring injury he suffered in the team&#8217;s first preseason game, according to coach Rick Carlisle.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It&#8217;s not as bad as it could have been, but it will take some time.<\/p><cite>Rick Carlisle<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nMcConnell was injured during Tuesday night&#8217;s preseason game against the Minnesota Timberwolves.\n\nFaced with this situation, the Pacers have taken steps to reinforce their point guard position. The team has signed veteran Cameron Payne to a training camp contract. Consequently, the Pacers cut point guard Delon Wright, who also left the first preseason game due to a head injury.\n\nMcConnell, 33, averaged 9.1 points and 4.4 assists last season in 79 games. In 23 playoff games, he contributed 9.5 points and 4 assists, helping the Pacers reach the NBA Finals.\n\nThe Pacers were already facing a significant absence at the point guard position, as All-Star Tyrese Haliburton will be out for the season due to a ruptured Achilles tendon suffered in the seventh game of the Finals against the Oklahoma City Thunder. Andrew Nembhard will be the starting point guard in Haliburton&#8217;s absence.\n\nThe Pacers will start the regular season on October 23 against the Thunder, in a rematch of the Finals.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T.J. McConnell Out with Injury: Pacers Adjust Roster Indiana Pacers backup point guard T.J. McConnell will be out for at least a month due to a hamstring injury he suffered in the team&#8217;s first preseason game, according to coach Rick Carlisle. It&#8217;s not as bad as it could have been, but it will take some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[290,365,9693,9660],"class_list":{"0":"post-49066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nba","7":"tag-injury","8":"tag-pacers","9":"tag-point-guard","10":"tag-t-j-mcconnell"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}