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Pacers team president Kevin Pritchard talks Tyrese Haliburton injury<\/p>\n

Pacers team president Kevin Pritchard discusses Tyrese Haliburton’s injury and future on Monday, July 7, 2025, in the Ascension St. Vincent Center in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n

The Pacers hired Johnny Carpenter to Rick Carlisle’s staff as an assistant coach Monday.<\/p>\n

INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 The Pacers<\/a> hired veteran assistant coach Johnny Carpenter to the staff Monday, filling the vacancy left Friday when assistant Mike Weinar and the team parted ways<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Carpenter spent last season with the Memphis Grizzlies<\/a> in a player development and scouting role after spending the previous nine seasons in various roles on staff at Virginia including assistant coach, helping the Cavaliers win the 2018-19 national title. He coached newly acquired center Jay Huff<\/a> at both Virginia and Memphis. He also served as Pacers<\/a> coach Rick Carlisle<\/a>‘s assistant video coordinator with the Dallas Mavericks in the 2014-15 season.<\/p>\n

Pacers assistant coach Jim Boylen<\/a> will move up to the front of the bench to take Weinar’s spot there, joining assistants Lloyd Pierce<\/a> and Jenny Boucek<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This story will be updated.<\/p>\n

Get IndyStar’s Pacers coverage sent directly to your inbox with our\u00a0Pacers Update newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pacers team president Kevin Pritchard talks Tyrese Haliburton injury Pacers team president Kevin Pritchard discusses Tyrese Haliburton’s injury…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,1713,267,284,268,294,5769,113,126,16900,4960,270,293,177,4070,6,67,61,134,114,269,132,1712,1714,66,83,271],"class_list":{"0":"post-250192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-memphis-grizzlies","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-carlisle","10":"tag-exclude","11":"tag-exclude-from-paywall-logic-testing","12":"tag-from","13":"tag-grizzlies","14":"tag-huff","15":"tag-indiana","16":"tag-indiana-pacers","17":"tag-jay","18":"tag-jay-huff","19":"tag-logic","20":"tag-memphis","21":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","22":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","23":"tag-nba","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-overall","26":"tag-overall-positive","27":"tag-pacers","28":"tag-paywall","29":"tag-positive","30":"tag-rick","31":"tag-rick-carlisle","32":"tag-sports","33":"tag-sports-news","34":"tag-testing"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115090466035346876","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}