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INDIANAPOLIS -- Pacers guard Bennedict Mathurin will miss a second straight game with left calf soreness Monday night against the Kings at Gainbridge Fieldhouse according to the NBA's official injury report Sunday.
Mathurin, the No. 6 overall pick in the 2022 draft and a first-team All-Rookie pick in 2022-23, is averaging 16.1 points per game off the bench this season on 46.6% shooting including 35.2% 3-point shooting. He's averaging a career-high 5.4 rebounds per game. He's been coming off the bench when the Pacers have been at full strength since coach Rick Carlisle moved Aaron Nesmith back into the starting lineup at small forward on Feb. 11, but he started the games Nesmith and All-Star point guard Tyrese Haliburton missed and he's started in 48 of the 67 games he's appeared in this season.
Mathurin's absence in Saturday's loss to the Thunder meant more bench minutes for second-year wings Ben Sheppard and Jarace Walker. Walker played almost 27 minutes and Sheppard played almost 22.
The Pacers' injury report was otherwise clean outside of center Isaiah Jackson, who has been out since Nov. 1 with an Achilles tendon tear. Kings guard Devin Carter (right shoulder contusion) and forward Jake LaRavia (left thumb bone contusion) have both been ruled out. LaRavia went to Lawrence Central High School and started his college career at Indiana State before transferring to Wake Forest.
This article originally appeared on Indianapolis Star: Pacers injury report: Bennedict Mathurin out with left calf soreness
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Mathurin, the No. 6 overall pick in the 2022 draft and a first-team All-Rookie pick in 2022-23, is averaging 16.1 points per game off the bench this season on 46.6% shooting including 35.2% 3-point shooting. He's averaging a career-high 5.4 rebounds per game. He's been coming off the bench when the Pacers have been at full strength since coach Rick Carlisle moved Aaron Nesmith back into the starting lineup at small forward on Feb. 11, but he started the games Nesmith and All-Star point guard Tyrese Haliburton missed and he's started in 48 of the 67 games he's appeared in this season.
Mathurin's absence in Saturday's loss to the Thunder meant more bench minutes for second-year wings Ben Sheppard and Jarace Walker. Walker played almost 27 minutes and Sheppard played almost 22.
The Pacers' injury report was otherwise clean outside of center Isaiah Jackson, who has been out since Nov. 1 with an Achilles tendon tear. Kings guard Devin Carter (right shoulder contusion) and forward Jake LaRavia (left thumb bone contusion) have both been ruled out. LaRavia went to Lawrence Central High School and started his college career at Indiana State before transferring to Wake Forest.
This article originally appeared on Indianapolis Star: Pacers injury report: Bennedict Mathurin out with left calf soreness
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