{"id":611948,"date":"2026-02-19T16:33:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/611948\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T16:33:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:33:24","slug":"why-pascal-siakam-is-missing-first-game-after-all-star-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/611948\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Pascal Siakam is missing first game after All-Star break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday evening, the<a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/indiana-pacers\/pacers-news-rick-carlisles-statement-on-100k-tanking-fine-after-initial-no-comment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Indiana Pacers will hit the road<\/a> to take on the Washington Wizards in the first game after the All-Star break for both teams. <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/players\/b0c1098b\/pascal-siakam\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pascal Siakam<\/a> will unfortunately miss this game for the Pacers due to personal reasons. Here&#8217;s everything we know about <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/indiana-pacers\/pacers-news-pascal-siakam-claps-back-tanking-claims-i-play-almost-every-game\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Siakam&#8217;s availability situation for Thursday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*Watch NBA games LIVE with fuboTV (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fubo.tv\/lp\/nba\/?irad=356361&amp;irmp=492408\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"sponsored noopener nofollow\">free trial<\/a>)*<\/p>\n<p>Pascal Siakam&#8217;s playing status vs the Washington Wizards<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3703176\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Pascal-Siakam.jpg\" alt=\"Indiana Pacers forward Pascal Siakam (43) reacts during overtime against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\"  \/>Brad Penner-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>As previously mentioned, Pascal Siakam has<a href=\"https:\/\/ak-static.cms.nba.com\/referee\/injury\/Injury-Report_2026-02-19_08_30AM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> officially been ruled out<\/a> for Thursday&#8217;s game in Washington due to personal reasons. Siakam represented the Pacers during the NBA All-Star game over the weekend in Los Angeles as a member of the World Team, which was the first eliminated from the round robin tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Joining Siakam on the injury report is TJ McConnell, who is questionable due to hamstring soreness, and Aaron Nesmith, who is also questionable due to a right lumbar sprain.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the tanking Wizards will continue to sit both Anthony Davis and Trae Young for this one, while Alex Sarr is also out due to a hamstring strain.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the Pacers have been among the worst teams in the NBA this year, playing without star point guard Tyrese Haliburton, who was injured in Game 7 of last year&#8217;s NBA Finals series vs the Oklahoma City Thunder, going down with a devastating torn Achilles.<\/p>\n<p>Many fans are now hoping that the Pacers will lose as much as possible down the stretch of this season in order to try to secure a top pick in the upcoming 2026 NBA Draft, which is projected to be one of the best in years.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Indiana recently traded a treasure trove of assets to the Los Angeles Clippers for Ivica Zubac, who will remain out for Thursday&#8217;s game due to an ankle sprain, still having yet to make his Indiana debut.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, the Pacers and Wizards are set to tip things off at 7:00 pm ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday evening, the Indiana Pacers will hit the road to take on the Washington Wizards in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,113,126,3866,6,14502,114,279],"class_list":{"0":"post-611948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indiana-pacers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-indiana","10":"tag-indiana-pacers","11":"tag-indianapacers","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-injury","14":"tag-pacers","15":"tag-pascal-siakam"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116098263880516238","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611948","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=611948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}