{"id":49195,"date":"2025-10-11T23:23:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T03:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/pacers-t-j-mcconnell-out-due-to-injury-cameron-payne-arrives\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T23:23:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T03:23:23","slug":"pacers-t-j-mcconnell-out-due-to-injury-cameron-payne-arrives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/pacers-t-j-mcconnell-out-due-to-injury-cameron-payne-arrives\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers: T.J. McConnell out due to injury; Cameron Payne arrives"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>T.J. McConnell, out due to injury for the Pacers<\/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 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, Pacers coach<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nMcConnell was injured during Tuesday&#8217;s preseason game against the Minnesota Timberwolves.\n\nFaced with this situation, the Pacers took steps to reinforce their point guard position. The team signed veteran Cameron Payne to a training camp contract. As a result, the Pacers cut point guard Delon Wright, who also left the preseason game due to a head injury.\n\nMcConnell, 33, averaged 9.1 points and 4.4 assists last season in 79 games. In addition, he contributed 9.5 points and 4 assists in 23 playoff games, 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 this season 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 due to injury for the Pacers 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 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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sin-categoria"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49195","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=49195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}