{"id":49491,"date":"2025-10-12T07:49:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T11:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/pacers-tj-mcconnell-out-due-to-injury-cameron-payne-strengthens-the-roster\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T07:49:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T11:49:04","slug":"pacers-tj-mcconnell-out-due-to-injury-cameron-payne-strengthens-the-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nba\/pacers-tj-mcconnell-out-due-to-injury-cameron-payne-strengthens-the-roster\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers: TJ McConnell Out Due to Injury; Cameron Payne Strengthens the Roster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">T.J. McConnell Out with Injury, Pacers Activate Contingency Plan<\/h2>\n\n\nIndiana Pacers backup point guard T.J. McConnell will be out for at least a month due to a hamstring injury, according to coach Rick Carlisle, who reported this Thursday.\n\nCarlisle stated that the injury &#8220;is not as serious as it could have been, but will require recovery time&#8221;.\n\nMcConnell suffered the injury during the Pacers&#8217; first preseason game against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Tuesday night.\n\nFaced with this situation, the Pacers have taken steps to reinforce their point guard position, signing veteran Cameron Payne to a training camp contract. As a result, the team 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 23 playoff games, he contributed 9.5 points and 4 assists, helping the Pacers reach the NBA Finals.\n\nThe Pacers were already dealing with a significant absence at the point guard position, with the absence of star Tyrese Haliburton, who 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 Activate Contingency Plan Indiana Pacers backup point guard T.J. McConnell will be out for at least a month due to a hamstring injury, according to coach Rick Carlisle, who reported this Thursday. Carlisle stated that the injury &#8220;is not as serious as it could have been, but will require [&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-49491","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\/49491","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=49491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}