{"id":477312,"date":"2026-01-05T15:42:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=477312"},"modified":"2026-01-05T15:42:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:42:04","slug":"indiana-pacers-mathurin-out-for-a-while-with-thumb-sprain-and-turf-toe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/indiana-pacers-mathurin-out-for-a-while-with-thumb-sprain-and-turf-toe\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Pacers: Mathurin \u201cout for a while\u201d with thumb sprain and turf toe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1606\" data-end=\"1844\">The <strong data-start=\"1624\" data-end=\"1642\">Indiana Pacers<\/strong> have decided to sideline <strong data-start=\"1668\" data-end=\"1690\">Bennedict Mathurin<\/strong>, who had been playing through a right thumb sprain and also has turf toe.<br data-start=\"1764\" data-end=\"1767\" \/>Indiana is now shutting him down, with no immediate return timeline provided.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1846\" data-end=\"2057\">Carlisle noted the team had started to get some bodies back, but is now losing another key piece.<br data-start=\"1943\" data-end=\"1946\" \/>\u201c<strong data-start=\"1947\" data-end=\"2039\">When we\u2019re down numbers, it becomes more challenging\u2026 but now Mathurin\u2019s out for a while<\/strong>,\u201d the coach said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2059\" data-end=\"2361\">Mathurin tried to push through the thumb issue for multiple games, but his shooting and scoring dipped and he was seen flexing his thumb during games.<br data-start=\"2209\" data-end=\"2212\" \/>The <strong data-start=\"2216\" data-end=\"2226\">Pacers<\/strong> remain without <strong data-start=\"2242\" data-end=\"2263\">Tyrese Haliburton<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2268\" data-end=\"2282\">Obi Toppin<\/strong> on long-term injuries, while <strong data-start=\"2312\" data-end=\"2330\">Isaiah Jackson<\/strong> has also missed several games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indiana Pacers are shutting down Bennedict Mathurin as he deals with a right thumb sprain and turf toe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":376182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-477312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/03\/Indiana-Pacers.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477312"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=477312"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=477312"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=477312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}