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Pacers Granted Disabled Player Exception

July 24th, 2025 at 7:30am CST by Luke Adams

The Pacers have been granted a disabled player exception worth $14,104,000, general manager Chad Buchanan stated during an appearance on the Setting The Pace podcast (YouTube link).

Indiana was eligible for that exception as a result of Tyrese Haliburton‘s Achilles tear, which will sideline him for the entire 2025/26 season.

“We’ve applied for that and been granted that exception, so I don’t know if I’m breaking news there for you guys,” Buchanan said when asked by co-host Alex Golden about the possibility of the team applying for a DPE. “Whether we use it or not depends. Using the full exception would put us into the luxury tax, which we’re not opposed to if it’s the right player.”

A disabled player exception gives an over-the-cap team some extra spending power – but not an additional 15-man roster spot – when it loses a player to an injury deemed likely to sideline him through at least June 15. As we explain in our glossary entry, the exception can be used to sign a free agent, to claim a player off waivers, or to acquire a player in a trade.

The disabled player exception can only be used on a single player and can only accommodate a player on a one-year deal. A free agent signee can’t get a multiyear contract, and any trade or waiver target must be in the final year of his contract.

The exception is worth either half the injured player’s salary or the value of the mid-level exception, whichever is lesser. Since Haliburton is earning over $45MM this season, the Pacers’ DPE is worth the amount of the non-taxpayer MLE.

Buchanan, who was asked about the possibility of adding more backcourt depth with Haliburton out for the year, acknowledged that if the front office were to target a specific position, it would likely be a point guard. However, he added that the Pacers haven’t pursued that possibility “super hard” and mentioned RayJ Dennis, Kam Jones, and Quenton Jackson as young guards the team likes and will continue to develop behind Andrew Nembhard and T.J. McConnell.

Indiana is currently operating about $6MM below the luxury tax line. If the club doesn’t use its disabled player exception on a free agent before or during the season, it also could come in handy at the trade deadline. For example, if the Pacers were to trade Obi Toppin and his $14MM salary for a player on an expiring $14MM contract, they could use the DPE to take on that player, creating a new trade exception worth Toppin’s outgoing salary.

It’s worth noting that the Pacers also still have their full $14.1MM mid-level exception available — it can be used to sign free agents and/or acquire players via trade too, and it can be split among multiple players, unlike the DPE.

The deadline to use a disabled player exception is March 10. The mid-level exception can be used until the final day of the regular season.

Pacers Notes: Furphy, Dennis, Q. Jackson, Jones, More

July 21st, 2025 at 3:55pm CST by Rory Maher

Pacers president of basketball operations Kevin Pritchard recently said Johnny Furphy has added 20 pounds of muscle to his frame and it showed in the confident way he attacked the rim at the Las Vegas Summer League, writes Dustin Dopirak of The Indianapolis Star (subscription required).

As Dopirak details, Furphy had one of the top highlights of Summer League, throwing down a vicious poster slam on Bulls lottery pick Noa Essengue (YouTube link), and shot 76.9% on twos (10-of-13), though he made just 25.0% of his three-point looks (3-of-12). Furphy posted solid-if-unspectacular numbers in three appearances in Vegas, averaging 11.3 PPG, 4.0 RPG, 2.3 APG and 1.0 SPG in 22.9 MPG, with turnovers being an issue (2.7 per contest).

Furphy, who was selected 35th overall in last year’s draft, had a modest role with Indiana as a rookie last season, making 50 regular season appearances while averaging 2.1 points and 1.4 rebounds in 7.6 minutes per game. While he seems likely to be outside of the rotation to open 2025/26, the 20-year-old should get a crack at regular minutes if an injury occurs on the wing, Dopirak notes.

Here’s more on the Pacers from Dopirak:

As he enters his second NBA season, RayJ Dennis appears to be the frontrunner for third-string point guard duties despite being on a two-way contract, according to Dopirak. With Tyrese Haliburton sidelined for ’25/26, Andrew Nembhard is expected to start, with T.J. McConnell as the primary backup. The 24-year-old Dennis tied for a Summer League-high with 7.3 assists per game (against 3.8 turnovers) in four contests and showed his familiarity with the team’s uptempo offense, Dopirak writes. Dennis also averaged 15.8 PPG on .420/.400/.846 shooting splits (27.7 MPG) and, at least as of now, looks to be ahead of Quenton Jackson and rookie Kam Jones on the depth chart; Jackson is also on a two-way deal, while Jones received a standard contract after being selected No. 38 overall out of Marquette.
Speaking of Jackson, Dopirak says he was arguably the most impactful player on the Summer League roster in his one appearance, posting 24 points on just 10 field goal attempts and recording three assists and two steals in 26 minutes. Dennis is more of a facilitator, but head coach Rick Carlisle showed he had faith in Jackson last season amid injuries and the 26-year-old guard is a better and more versatile defender than Dennis, Dopirak observes.
As for Jones, he showed flashes of why the Pacers made him a second-round pick at Summer League, averaging 13.5 PPG, 5.2 APG, 3.8 RPG and 1.8 SPG on .488/.333/.750 shooting in four games in Vegas (26.3 MPG). However, the 23-year-old might need to spend some time in the G League with the Noblesville Boom to open the season, according to Dopirak, who points out that Jones had some rough patches on both ends of the court despite solid-looking counting stats.
The Pacers have a two-way qualifying offer out to Enrique Freeman, who shined in Vegas, averaging 16.6 PPG, 9.6 RPG, 2.0 APG and 1.8 BPG while shooting 72.5% from the floor in five games (27.8 MPG). But Dopirak views No. 54 overall pick Taelon Peter — one of several unsigned second-rounders — as a better bet to fill Indiana’s third and final two-way spot. The former Liberty guard thrived in transition in Summer League, Dopirak writes, and although his stats were far more modest than Freeman’s (9.5 PPG, 2.2 RPG, 1.8 APG in 23.6 MPG), the former Akron big man has distinct limitations, notably being forward-sized (6’7″ and 220 pounds) but functionally playing like a center.
Assistant coach Isaac Yacob deserves credit for having the Summer League team emulating the Pacers’ distinctive style in a short period of time, per Dopirak. In addition to being the head coach in Vegas, Yacob has helped several players on the roster improve and is close to Haliburton, so his standing in the organization is on the rise, says Dopirak.

Central Notes: Giannis, Turner, Pacers, Lanier, Holland

July 11th, 2025 at 7:59am CST by Luke Adams

Appearing on a live stream in Greece on Thursday with YouTube personality IShowSpeed, Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo was asked if his plan is to remain in Milwaukee going forward.

“Probably,” Antetokounmpo said (Twitter video link). “We’ll see. Probably. I love Milwaukee.”

While any public statement that Antetokounmpo makes about his future is notable, it’s hard to draw any definitive conclusions from those brief comments — they’re pretty much what you’d expect him to say if he hasn’t requested a trade but also hasn’t yet decisively committed to not asking for a trade. And by all accounts, that’s where his situation currently stands.

As we wait for a more conclusive update on Giannis’ future, the Bucks and their fans can take solace in the “probably” part of his response on Thursday, while potential suitors will likely be emboldened by the “we’ll see.”

Here’s more from around the Central:

After signing with the Bucks on Monday following 10 years in Indiana, Myles Turner published a farewell to Pacers fans on his Instagram account on Thursday. “This chapter is closing, but the respect and love I have for this city and its people is forever,” Turner wrote within a much longer statement. “Thank you Indy, from the bottom of my heart. I mean it when I say The 317 will always be home. And I’ve been proud to call myself a Hoosier! I hope you continue to embrace me as much as I’ve always embraced you!”
Dustin Dopirak of The Indianapolis Star shares three takeaways from the Pacers‘ victory in their first Las Vegas Summer League game on Thursday, noting that two-way players RayJ Dennis (26 points, nine assists) and Quenton Jackson (24 points on 8-of-10 shooting) were among the standouts. It would be a boon for the Pacers if Dennis emerges as a reliable option at the NBA level, Dopirak observes, since the team will be on the lookout for additional point guard depth with Tyrese Haliburton out for the entire 2025/26 season.
Pistons second-round pick Chaz Lanier believes he’s capable of “immediately” playing a role for his new NBA team as a rookie, he told reporters during his introductory press conference this week. “Coming in to do whatever they need me to do,” Lanier said, per Coty M. Davis of The Detroit News. “Coming in and making shots when I need to. … I am a shooter first, that is what I hang my hat on; putting the ball in the basket. However, I believe that at the NBA level, you need to be able to make an impact on defense. That is how I plan on making my mark.”
Pistons forward Ron Holland, who turned 20 on Monday, was pleased that he was able to earn an every-game rotation role as a rookie last season, but he feels like he “left a lot on the table” and “could’ve done more,” as Omari Sankofa II of The Detroit Free Press relays (subscription required). “That’s definitely putting a chip on my shoulder and being able to go into next season trying to thrive and get better every single day,” Holland said.

Pacers Sign Kam Jones, Quenton Jackson

July 8th, 2025 at 1:46pm CST by Luke Adams

The Pacers have officially announced a pair of signings, issuing a press release to say that they’ve finalized a standard contract with second-round pick Kam Jones and have brought back restricted free agent guard Quenton Jackson on a two-way deal.

A 6’5″ combo guard, Jones spent his entire four-year college career at Marquette, where he was a consensus second-team All-American and a member of the All-Big East first team in 2025 after averaging 19.2 points, 5.9 assists, and 4.5 rebounds in 33.8 minutes per game across 34 outings as a senior.

Pacers president of basketball operations said on Monday that Jones reminds him of Andrew Nembhard as a player and Tyrese Haliburton as a person, per Dustin Dopirak of The Indianapolis Star.

“He’s hyper-positive,” Pritchard said. “… He’s got that kind of an ‘it factor’ of, that’s a Pacer.”

Indiana drafted Jones using the No. 38 overall pick, which the team had agreed to acquire a day earlier from San Antonio in exchange for a future second-round pick and cash. The rookie guard will occupy a spot on the Pacers’ 15-man roster in 2025/26 after signing a four-year, $8.7MM contract, according to Tony East of Locked on Pacers (Twitter link), who says the deal includes a good deal of non-guaranteed money in the later seasons.

As for Jackson, he received a qualifying offer to make him a restricted free agent after finishing each of the past two seasons on two-way deals with Indiana. The former undrafted free agent averaged 5.8 PPG, 1.9 APG and 1.6 RPG on .475/.375/.775 shooting in 28 games (13.6 MPG) in ’24/25 for the Pacers.

With Jackson back under contract on another two-way deal alongside RayJ Dennis, the Pacers have two of their three slots filled. The leading candidate for that third opening is probably Enrique Freeman, given that Indiana still has a two-way qualifying offer on the table to the 2024 second-rounder.

Pacers Issue QOs To I. Jackson, Q. Jackson, Freeman

June 29th, 2025 at 4:38pm CST by Rory Maher

The Pacers have tendered qualifying offers to Isaiah Jackson, Quenton Jackson and Enrique Freeman, making all three players restricted free agents, a league source tells Tony East of Forbes (Twitter link).

Isaiah Jackson was a semi-regular rotation player for Indiana over the course of his first three NBA seasons after being selected No. 22 overall in the 2021 draft. Unfortunately, the 23-year-old center sustained a torn Achilles tendon in the Pacers’ sixth game of 2024/25 and missed the rest of the season, including the team’s run to the NBA Finals.

The decision to give Isaiah Jackson a qualifying offer is an interesting one. The Pacers are clearly confident that he’s recovering well after the major injury, but the amount of the QO — $6,422,432 — isn’t insignificant, especially with Indiana trying to re-sign starting center Myles Turner in free agency.

Perhaps the Pacers have an idea of what it will take to bring back Jackson on a team-friendly multiyear deal and issued the qualifying offer as a precaution so he remains restricted. But he could also choose to accept the QO — essentially a guaranteed one-year contract — and become an unrestricted free agent in 2026. Either scenario would push Indiana closer to the luxury tax in 2025/26, which ownership has historically been reluctant to avoid.

As for Quenton Jackson, the former undrafted free agent averaged 5.8 PPG, 1.9 APG and 1.6 RPG on .475/.375/.775 shooting in 28 games (13.6 MPG) last season while on a two-way contract with Indiana. The third-year guard’s QO is a one-year deal for his minimum-salary ($2,378,870) and has a small partial guarantee ($102K).

Freeman, meanwhile, was a rookie last season after being selected 50th overall in 2024 out of Akron. The 6’8″ forward made 22 appearances with the Pacers, averaging 2.1 PPG and 1.4 RPG in 8.2 MPG. His QO is for another two-way deal and also features a modest partial guarantee ($85K) that won’t impact Indiana’s salary cap situation.

Central Notes: Cunningham, Pacers, Bulls, Connaughton

April 13th, 2025 at 9:55pm CST by Dana Gauruder

Pistons All-Star Cade Cunningham expects a heated battle in the first playoff series of his career, Stefan Bondy of the New York Post relays via an ESPN interview. Detroit will match up against the Knicks in the opening round.

“It’s going to be a war,” he said. “It’s going to be highly physical games — defense, battling it out on the glass, all of those different things. I think it’s going to be a super exciting series for people at home to watch, and it’s going to be a great test for us as far as first round, first series in a long time for the organization. So it’s exciting, and I think it’s going to be a great one for us.”

The Knicks’ game plan will undoubtedly center around making Cunningham uncomfortable.

“He’s had a terrific season. It’s not just [against] us, he’s done it against everybody. We understand that. … With great players you don’t guard them individually, you guard them collectively,” Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau said. “So we have to understand what goes into that.”

We have more from the Central Division:

The Pacers reached the 50-win mark with the biggest comeback in franchise history, The Associated Press reports. They erased a 27-point deficit for a 126-118 victory over Cleveland in double overtime on Sunday. Both teams sat out most of their rotation players. Over the game’s final 18:05, Indiana’s Quenton Jackson, Enrique Freeman, RayJ Dennis, Tony Bradley and Johnny Furphy outscored Cleveland 53-24.
The Chicago Tribune’s Julia Poe reveals her seven takeaways from the Bulls’ regular season, including the emergence of Josh Giddey, the building of a young core, and the realization that Lonzo Ball cannot be a building block. Chicago hosts Miami in the play-in tournament on Wednesday.
Pat Connaughton had a career day in the Bucks’ regular-season finale, pouring in 43 points in an overtime victory against Detroit. “I just wanted to win the game,” Connaughton said, per Ben Steele of the Milwaukee Journal. “Unfortunately we didn’t do it in regulation, which I’m sure brought some entertainment value for ESPN and everything. Which was fun.” Connaughton holds a $9.42MM player option on his contract for next season.

Central Notes: Mitchell, Atkinson, Pacers, Connaughton

November 29th, 2024 at 12:20pm CST by Rory Maher

In an interesting story for The Athletic, Sam Amick details the late-June meeting between Donovan Mitchell and new head coach Kenny Atkinson that helped convince the star guard to sign a three-year, maximum-salary extension with the Cavaliers over the summer.

Rather than using technology to get his point across at the lunch meeting, Atkinson decided to take the opposite approach.

“We were going over (Atkinson’s vision) with f—ing salt and pepper on the little place mat,” Mitchell told The Athletic recently. “This guy could be here and put this there. Naturally, what got me was the fact that we’re having this kind of discussion at a regular lunch. We’re legitimately trying to figure it all out, and we’re saying, ‘All right, we can plug this person here and where do we put this guy?’ Evan (Mobley) goes here, with the rifle action. He sets up this (action), and you can slip. We’re just going over everything.”

As Amick writes, Atkinson didn’t know Mitchell well at all prior to the encounter, but he was quickly impressed by the 28-year-old’s basketball acumen.

“I wanted it to be more casual than a chalkboard session,” Atkinson told The Athletic. “I wanted his thoughts about how we’d play, thoughts on the team. I said, ‘Let’s go down the roster, and tell me about every guy.’ And it was amazing. It was like talking to a coach. He had such a depth of knowledge.

“He gave me the lowdown on every guy, so that was the spark for me. Like, man, I’ve got the blueprint right here, and then talking to him strategically about what we wanted to do. His IQ is off the charts — really off the charts. We just clicked, you know? Strategically. And that’s important. You could meet and not click. He bought in right off the bat.”

Here’s more from the Central:

Guard Quenton Jackson, who is on a two-way contract with the Pacers, has started the past five games amid injuries to his perimeter teammates, writes Dustin Dopirak of The Indianapolis Star. “He’s a combative defender, he’s a rim attacker,” head coach Rick Carlisle said of Jackson. “He’s going to bring intensity and competitiveness to the game. … Every night he’s getting some kind of a really tough matchup, which is something that he really covets.” For his part, the former undrafted free agent said he’s grateful for the first extended playing time of his career. “It’s something you dream of,” Jackson said. “For it to be here, it’s nothing short of a blessing. At the same time, you have to focus on what’s at hand and handling business and that’s what I’m doing right now.”
Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton briefly wore a protective mask on Wednesday vs. Portland after getting hit on the nose during Monday’s win. He told reporters, including Dopirak, that wearing the mask was an optional decision, but he discarded it in the second quarter and played better without it. “It’s not coming back,” Haliburton said. “Hopefully in a couple more days it stops hurting so much. I hope I never see that again.”
Forward Pat Connaughton was out of the Bucks‘ rotation for four games before giving the team a boost in Tuesday’s win at Miami, contributing 10 points, eight rebounds and two blocks in 21 minutes. Jim Owczarski of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscriber link) has the story on how the veteran wing stayed ready while being unsure of when his next opportunity would arise.

Central Notes: LaVine, Cavs, Haliburton, Q. Jackson, A. Thompson

November 21st, 2024 at 6:30pm CST by Luke Adams

The Zach LaVine discourse during the 2024 offseason focused less on what the Bulls guard was capable of doing on the court and more on potential red flags off of it, including his injury history, his sizable contract, and his relationship with head coach Billy Donovan. Speaking to Vincent Goodwill of Yahoo Sports earlier this week, LaVine admitted it was impossible to ignore that chatter.

“I heard everything. I read everything,” LaVine said. “Sometimes you gotta take that accountability and put a chip on your shoulder. There’s a lot of things people said I had to prove. I think my résumé speaks for itself, the type of player I am, the type of person I am, but it is what it is. You can always turn some heads.”

While there’s still some skepticism about whether LaVine is worth the $138MM he’s owed from this season through 2026/27, he has done all he can to silence his critics so far this fall, repairing his relationship with Donovan, staying relatively healthy, and playing some of the best basketball of his career. His 51.2% shooting percentage and 43.2% mark on three-pointers would be career highs if he can maintain them, and he has been a more active defender than in past seasons.

As for his contract, LaVine won’t apologize for taking the five-year, maximum-salary offer the Bulls made him in 2021, telling Goodwill that he believes he earned that deal.

“I don’t know,” LaVine said. “It’s not for me to try to make everybody like me. I’m happy for what I got, what I deserved. And some people may not feel that way and you may judge it off that. But regardless, I know who I am and what I’ve done in this league.

“… I’m in a good place and I feel sharp right now,” LaVine added. “Being able to be one of the veteran guys on the team and still being able to do what I do. Help win in any way I can. Defense one day, facilitating, whatever they call for.”

We have more from around the Central:

The Cavaliers‘ loss on Tuesday to the defending champion Celtics snapped their 15-game win streak to start the season, but the three-point defeat only emboldened the team’s belief in its itself, writes Chris Fedor of Cleveland.com (subscription required). Chris Mannix of SI.com conveys as similar sentiment, writing that the measuring-stick loss proved the Cavs are for real. Cleveland bounced back with a 28-point blowout of the Pelicans on Wednesday and is now a league-best 16-1.
Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton continued to struggle on Wednesday, scoring just four points on 1-of-7 shooting as the team was outscored by 28 points in his 30 minutes on the floor, notes Dustin Dopirak of The Indianapolis Star. Haliburton, who is in the first season of a five-year, maximum-salary contract, is making just 37.5% of his field goal attempts through 15 games, including 28.4% of his three-pointers. Both would be career lows by a wide margin.
The Pacers dropped to 6-9 with Wednesday’s loss to Houston, but it wasn’t all bad news for Indiana. Two-way player Quenton Jackson made his first career start and made an immediate impact, scoring 24 points on 10-of-12 shooting. “Quenton Jackson is an example of where we need everybody’s spirit to be,” head coach Rick Carlisle said, per Dopirak. “The guy is flying all over the place, playing at a ridiculously high level of intensity and unselfishness and totally surrendering to the team, you know? … For us, we just have to work at adopting that on a full-time basis and really being there for each other.”
The Pistons aren’t rushing the return of Ausar Thompson, who has yet to make his season debut after dealing with a blood clot issue, but Zach LaVine‘s performance in a Bulls win over Detroit on Monday was a reminder of how the team could benefit from reintegrating a defensive stopper like Thompson, says Omari Sankofa II of The Detroit Free Press. “He’s a guy who can eliminate the other team’s best players,” J.B. Bickerstaff said. “Any time you add that to the system and the scheme and the way guys have bought into it, it just gives you an added boost. He can switch, he can guard multiple positions. We’re excited to have him back for sure.” Thompson is listed as doubtful to play in Charlotte on Thursday but is believed to be close to returning.

Central Notes: Giannis, Stewart, Ball, Pacers, Furphy

November 14th, 2024 at 2:11pm CST by Rory Maher

Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo erupted for an NBA season-high 59 points in Wednesday’s overtime victory over Detroit, writes Jim Owczarski of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Antetokounmpo was efficient from all over the court, going 21-of-34 from the field, 1-of-2 from three-point range, and 16-of-17 from the foul line. He also contributed 14 rebounds, seven assists, three blocks and two steals, becoming the first player in league history to finish with that stat line.

“His handprint was all over the game,” Bucks head coach Doc Rivers said. “When you think about having the scoring off the floor that we had – no Dame (Damian Lillard), no Khris Middleton, no Bobby Portis, no Ryan (Rollins) so we’re down to one living point guard on our team – and for him to do that and for us to score 127 points, though he got half of them almost, every basket was needed.”

Center Brook Lopez, who had also had his best game of the early portion of the season (29 points, eight rebounds, five blocks, three steals), struggled to find words to describe Antetokounmpo’s impact, according to Eric Nehm of The Athletic.

“I’m not well versed enough in the English language, or unfortunately any other language, to find new ways to describe Giannis’ brilliance,” Lopez said. “Just to be able to watch it and be a part of it for as long as I’ve been here, these seven years now, to see the way he was tonight, I’m still seeing new stuff. And it’s just, it’s so special.

“So I’m just going to cherish it, night in and night out, but just let it inspire me too because his drive — you mentioned all the scoring he does — but he doesn’t care about that. Obviously, he can take us on his back and win games for us, but it’s just the way he goes about it. He’s not about the stats. He’s just about winning and that’s something the whole team gets behind.”

Here’s more from the Central:

Pistons big man Isaiah Stewart was ejected in the third quarter of Wednesday’s loss to Milwaukee following a Flagrant 2 foul on Antetokounmpo, notes Owczarski of The Journal Sentinel. The Bucks star initiated contact with Stewart to create space, then spun baseline for a dunk attempt when Stewart pulled him down by the jersey with both hands. “I’ve been in that position many times in my life,” Antetokounmpo said of the play. “I have two older brothers that, you know, push me on the floor, play, be tough on me, especially Thanasis. I’ve been so many times hit. So, it doesn’t really faze me anymore. It doesn’t really faze me. All I could think about was get up and try to make two free throws. At the same time, it’s a dangerous play. That’s not a basketball play. I think the ref did a great job of making the right call.”
Bulls guard Lonzo Ball, who is recuperating from a right wrist sprain, has progressed to doing dribbling and shooting drills in recent days and hopes to return on Sunday vs. Houston, per Joe Cowley of The Chicago Sun-Times. However, head coach Billy Donovan suggested that target date might be a little too optimistic. “I don’t know if that’s realistic,” Donovan said. “That’s what he was shooting for. We’re not ruling that out, but a lot of that is going to depend on how he progresses in those areas. When he starts shooting threes, how does that respond? They’re going to make him do some things live in guarding the ball to see how it feels when all of a sudden he’s hand-checking a guy. We haven’t gotten to those places yet, but those are markers he needs to get through, hurdles he needs to get through before he can take the next step in terms of getting on the floor.”
With James Wiseman and Isaiah Jackson sidelined by long-term injuries (torn Achilles tendons) and Aaron Nesmith (left ankle) and Andrew Nembhard (left knee) out multiple weeks, the Pacers have turned to their two-way players and rookies for rotation minutes, as Dustin Dopirak of The Indianapolis Star writes. Two-way players Quenton Jackson and Enrique Freeman (he’s also a rookie, selected No. 50 overall in June’s draft) have received some run off the bench, as has No. 35 overall pick Johnny Furphy, who scored a career-best seven points in nine minutes in Wednesday’s loss to Orlando. “He’s a very good player off movement,” head coach Rick Carlisle said of Furphy, per Dopirak. “He’s a great runner at that size. He’s deceptively tough. He gave us some really good minutes in the first half. … You can see why we’re excited about him for the future and really right now too. That’s a pretty high culture game and he went in there and played well.”

Pacers Re-Sign Quenton Jackson On Two-Way Deal

July 27th, 2024 at 9:20am CST by Dana Gauruder

The Pacers have re-signed Quenton Jackson to a two-way contract, according to the NBA transactions log.

Jackson was on a two-way deal last season. He became a restricted free agent after receiving a qualifying offer prior to free agency.

Jackson was part of Indiana’s Summer League team in Las Vegas, where he averaged 11.0 points, 4.2 assists and 1.8 steals in 21.2 minutes per contest.

The Texas A&M product went undrafted in 2022, then played nine games for Washington in 2022/23. He was released by the Wizards last summer. He spent a majority of the 2023/24 season with the G League’s Windy City Bulls before Indiana signed him to a two-way deal in March.

Jackson appeared in three games with the Pacers last season. He saw action in a total of 32 G League contests, averaging 18.8 points, 5.6 assists and 1.8 steals in 33.8 minutes per game.

Indiana had all three of its two-way slots open, so more moves could be forthcoming.

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