{"id":524141,"date":"2026-01-08T04:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T04:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/524141\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T04:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T04:54:13","slug":"pacers-plan-to-bring-back-center-tony-bradley-on-a-10-day-contract-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/524141\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers plan to bring back center Tony Bradley on a 10-day contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/player\/1628396\/tony-bradley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tony Bradley;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Tony Bradley <\/a>was waived before his contract was fully guaranteed, but the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/pacers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Pacers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> Pacers <\/a>plan to bring back the depth center on a 10-day contract starting Thursday, a league source confirmed to the IndyStar on Wednesday. Tony East of Forbes and the Locked On Network had the story first.<\/p>\n<p>Bradley initially joined the Pacers in March on a 10-day contract and hung around long enough to get a non-guaranteed two-year contract. The Pacers picked up his club option for the 2025-26 season and kept him through training camp, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/pacers\/2026\/01\/05\/tony-bradley-reserve-center-waived-by-the-pacers\/88037532007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:but chose to waive him before the Jan. 10 deadline when his contract would have become fully guaranteed for the rest of the season.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">but chose to waive him before the Jan. 10 deadline when his contract would have become fully guaranteed for the rest of the season.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Bradley&#8217;s role throughout his Pacers tenure has been limited, but he&#8217;s consistently given them the sturdy post defense and rebounding they&#8217;ve asked for in the position. In 10.7 minutes per game this season, Bradley is averaging 3.9 points per game on 56.3% shooting and 2.6 rebounds per game. In last year&#8217;s playoffs, he was an effective foil for New York&#8217;s Mitchell Robinson and Oklahoma City&#8217;s Isaiah Hartenstein on the glass and he&#8217;s typically been used against larger bodied centers this season. His spot on the team became tenuous when the Pacers signed Micah Potter to a non-guaranteed contract, which has since become guaranteed. However, with second-string center Isaiah Jackson out since Dec. 22 with a concussion, the Pacers still need Bradley as a third healthy option.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Indianapolis Star: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/pacers\/2026\/01\/07\/pacers-plan-to-bring-back-center-tony-bradley-on-a-10-day-contract\/88073727007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Pacers plan to bring back center Tony Bradley on a 10-day contract;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Pacers plan to bring back center Tony Bradley on a 10-day contract<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS &#8212; Tony Bradley was waived before his contract was fully guaranteed, but the Pacers plan to bring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,113,126,3866,949,2542,32137,1247,6,475,114,2957,14218,10771],"class_list":["post-524141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indiana-pacers","tag-basketball","tag-indiana","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-indianapacers","tag-isaiah-hartenstein","tag-isaiah-jackson","tag-micah-potter","tag-mitchell-robinson","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma-city","tag-pacers","tag-the-pacers","tag-tony-bradley","tag-tony-east"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115857697266064306","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524141","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=524141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}