{"id":561265,"date":"2026-01-26T05:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T05:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/561265\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T05:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T05:04:16","slug":"injury-notes-mathurin-green-jerome-cunningham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/561265\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury Notes: Mathurin, Green, Jerome, Cunningham"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pacers will be adding a bit more firepower to their offense soon, as Bennedict Mathurin<\/a> is nearing his return. He is officially being listed as questionable for tomorrow\u2019s game against the Hawks, per the Pacers\u2019 Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dustin Dopirak of the Indy Star writes<\/a> that this season, it\u2019s been common for players bumped to a \u201cquestionable\u201d designation after missing multiple games to suit up as soon as they\u2019ve been upgraded.<\/p>\n

Mathurin has missed the last 11 games for Indiana after leaving a January 2 matchup against the Spurs early with a right thumb sprain. He initially tried to play through the injury, but it was decided that some time away to heal would do him good. He also missed 11 of the team\u2019s first 13 games with a big toe sprain.<\/p>\n

Mathurin is second in scoring for the Pacers on the season, averaging a career-high 17.8 points per game, behind only Pascal Siakam<\/a> and narrowly edging out Andrew Nembhard<\/a>, who is at 17.7 points per game.<\/p>\n

We have more injury notes from around the league:<\/p>\n

Jalen Green<\/a> received an MRI following his early departure<\/a> from Friday\u2019s Suns\u00a0game, and there was no new injury revealed by the test, according to head coach Jordan Ott (Twitter video link<\/a> per AZ Central\u2019s Duane Rankin). \u201cThat\u2019s great news for us,\u201d he said. \u201cGet a workout today, and we\u2019ll see where he goes this week.\u201d Ott said Green should be considered day-to-day moving forward. Green has struggled to stay on the floor for multiple games as he looks to return from his hamstring injury fully. Twice now, he has played one healthy game before exiting the next one after only a few minutes. \u201cIt was just so unlucky, you know, he was feeling so good in the end of that third quarter,\u201d Ott said. \u201cSo that\u2019s why you take an image, that\u2019s why you see what it feels like the next day, and we know he\u2019s an incredible healer and a guy that\u2019s gonna do everything it takes to play the next one, so that\u2019s encouraging news.\u201d
\nTy Jerome<\/a> is nearing his season debut for the Grizzlies, writes Damichael Cole of Memphis Commercial Appeal (Twitter link<\/a>). \u201cHe\u2019s already progressed to five-on-five live,\u201d said coach Tuomas Iisalo (video link<\/a>). \u201cSo we\u2019re very close. I think the evaluation is somewhere within one or two weeks\u2026 he still needs to build a little bit of load before the actual games, but he\u2019s doing great, he\u2019s progressing really well.\u201d Jerome signed<\/a> a three-year deal with Memphis this summer after a breakout year with the Cavaliers that saw him land third in Sixth Man of the Year voting as he averaged 12.5 points and 3.4 assists in just 19.9 minutes per game.
\nCade Cunningham<\/a> is nursing a wrist injury but is attempting to find the balance between rest and treatment and playing through it for the Pistons, writes Omari Sankofa II of the Detroit Free Press (Twitter link<\/a>). \u201cIt\u2019s not easy what he\u2019s going through,\u201d said coach JB Bickerstaff. \u201cWrist on your shooting hand makes things a little more difficult \u2026 it\u2019s one of those things where we\u2019re hopefully it just takes time.\u201d Cunningham downplayed the impact, saying that he felt good coming into Sunday\u2019s game against the Kings. \u201cFelt great this morning, felt great last night, so it\u2019s cool to be able to come out and just\u2026 get some reps up with it,\u201d Cunningham said, per Sankofa (Twitter video link<\/a>). Cunningham said that it\u2019s been difficult, but he\u2019s hoping that he\u2019s through the worst of it now. \u201cIt\u2019s been a battle as far as, like, mentally, as far as figuring out how I can help us, was not liking how I felt shooting and just constantly kind of, like, flinching when I was shooting \u2019cause I didn\u2019t know how I would feel,\u201d\u00a0he said. He added he thought the injury happened against Cleveland on January 4, when he fell on it, and that it was exacerbated when he got hit in the same spot in the next day\u2019s game against the Knicks. \u201cFor the most part we felt like it wasn\u2019t going to get worse from me playing or anything, unless someone smacked it,\u201d he noted. \u201cFor me it was just based on if I was willing to play with it hurting like that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pacers will be adding a bit more firepower to their offense soon, as Bennedict Mathurin is nearing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,363,909,113,126,3866,861,6,114,1201],"class_list":{"0":"post-561265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indiana-pacers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bennedict-mathurin","10":"tag-cade-cunningham","11":"tag-indiana","12":"tag-indiana-pacers","13":"tag-indianapacers","14":"tag-jalen-green","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-pacers","17":"tag-ty-jerome"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115959658394643367","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561265","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=561265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}