{"id":528246,"date":"2026-01-11T00:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T00:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/528246\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T00:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T00:45:16","slug":"pacers-jay-huff-not-starting-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/528246\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers&#8217; Jay Huff: Not starting Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/teams\/IND\/indiana-pacers\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/343.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/players\/2268640\/huff\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Huff<\/a> is not in the starting lineup for Saturday&#8217;s game against the Heat, Tony East of Forbes.com reports.<\/p>\n<p>Huff has been a regular starter for the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/teams\/IND\/indiana-pacers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pacers<\/a> of late and has been part of the first unit in all but two of the Pacers&#8217; last 20 games, but that won&#8217;t be the case Saturday. Huff should still see sizable minutes as a rim protector. He&#8217;s averaging 6.6 points, 3.1 rebounds and 2.0 blocks across 16.7 minutes per game in 18 outings off the bench this season.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Huff is not in the starting lineup for Saturday&#8217;s game against the Heat, Tony East of Forbes.com reports.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,2825,113,126,3866,4960,6,114],"class_list":{"0":"post-528246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indiana-pacers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-fantasy-basketball","10":"tag-indiana","11":"tag-indiana-pacers","12":"tag-indianapacers","13":"tag-jay-huff","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-pacers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115873705150891161","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528246","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=528246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}