The Indiana Pacers introduced Thursday that the workforce was granted an NBA Hardship Exception and subsequently signed guard Garrison Mathews to a 10-day contract.
Mathews will put on quantity 24 and is obtainable for Friday’s Emirates NBA Cup sport at Cleveland, which is able to air on Amazon Prime at 7:00pm ET.
Through the Indy Star:
Groups are allowed to signal gamers to hardship exception contracts if they’ve at the very least 4 gamers who’ve missed three consecutive video games and who’re anticipated to overlook at the very least two extra weeks. The Pacers had six gamers listed as “out” for Wednesday’s sport towards the Hornets — All-Star level guard Tyrese Haliburton, forwards Obi Toppin, Aaron Nesmith and Johnny Furphy and guards Kam Jones and Quenton Jackson. Haliburton is out for the season, Toppin is out till at the very least Feb. 1. Nesmith, who missed his third consecutive sport Wednesday, is out roughly 4 weeks. The Pacers haven’t given timelines on Jones, Jackson or Furphy however Pacers coach Rick Carlisle stated Jones continues to be “aways out” with a decrease again stress response.
