Is Myles Turner Enjoying? Full Damage Report For Pacers vs Pelicans

The Indiana Pacers will play their 18th sport of the season in opposition to the New Orleans Pelicans on Monday.

The Pacers, who’re 7-10, will face the Pelicans, essentially the most depleted group within the league. The Pacers are additionally exhausted, however they’ll have a key participant for this sport, their star middle, Myles Turner.

After being listed as questionable, Turner was upgraded to accessible for this sport. On condition that Monday is the rematch of a back-to-back matchup, the Pacers have been anticipated to be cautious.

Turner has been strong for the Pacers this season, averaging 16.4 factors per sport, 7.2 rebounds, 1.4 assists and 1.9 blocks in 32.4 minutes of motion and 15 video games performed.

Turner recorded 10 factors on 50 % taking pictures from the sphere, together with 9 rebounds, one help, one block and two steals in half-hour of motion in opposition to the Wizards on Sunday. The Pacers would have been very skinny within the frontcourt with out Turner within the lineup.

Furphy was additionally dominated out of this contest resulting from an ankle harm. Furphy was deemed accessible to return after spraining his ankle in Sunday’s win over the Wizards, however he will probably be sidelined for the second half of Indiana’s back-to-back set.

Furphy was added to the lineup as a result of absence of Andrew Nembhard, Aaron Nesmith and Ben Sheppard, all of whom have been injured.

With Furphy out, TJ McConnell, Quenton Jackson and Jarace Walker are all candidates for some additional minutes.

In a single sport this season, Furphy averaged 2.7 factors, 1.2 rebounds and 0.4 assists in 9.4 minutes of motion.

The Pelicans will nonetheless be with out Zion Williamson, Dejounte Murray and Herb Jones, to call a couple of. Nonetheless, a brand new title appeared on the harm report: former All-Sar ahead Brandon Ingram.

Ingram is dominated out with a calf harm. Ingram missed his first sport of the 2024-25 common season in opposition to the Cavaliers final Wednesday resulting from bilateral ankle sprains, however he’ll miss Monday’s sport with a proper calf challenge.

As a consequence of Ingram’s harm, Javonte Inexperienced and Jeremiah Robinson-Earl ought to see further minutes, and CJ McCollum (adductor) will see extra utilization on offense.

The Pacers will look to get again within the win column after shedding 5 of their final seven video games.

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