{"id":629948,"date":"2026-02-28T08:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T08:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/629948\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T08:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T08:21:16","slug":"pacers-face-the-grizzlies-on-5-game-slide-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/629948\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers face the Grizzlies on 5-game slide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis Grizzlies (22-36, 11th in the Western Conference) vs. Indiana Pacers (15-45, 15th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n<p>Indianapolis; Sunday, 5 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: Indiana enters the matchup against Memphis as losers of five games in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Pacers have gone 10-21 in home games. Indiana has a 4-26 record in games decided by at least 10 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Grizzlies are 10-19 on the road. Memphis is 11-16 when it has fewer turnovers than its opponents and averages 14.7 turnovers per game.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacers are shooting 45.0% from the field this season, 2.1 percentage points lower than the 47.1% the Grizzlies allow to opponents. The Grizzlies&#8217; 46.1% shooting percentage from the field this season is 2.7 percentage points lower than the Pacers have given up to their opponents (48.8%).<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The teams meet for the second time this season. The Grizzlies won 128-103 in the last matchup on Oct. 26.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Pascal Siakam is averaging 23.9 points, 6.8 rebounds and 3.9 assists for the Pacers. Jarace Walker is averaging 14.8 points, 7.7 rebounds and 3.6 assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Cedric Coward is averaging 13.3 points and 6.2 rebounds for the Grizzlies. GG Jackson is averaging 16.9 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Pacers: 2-8, averaging 115.3 points, 40.7 rebounds, 29.0 assists, 8.0 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 47.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 124.7 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Grizzlies: 3-7, averaging 118.1 points, 37.7 rebounds, 28.3 assists, 12.5 steals and 4.8 blocks per game while shooting 48.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 122.9 points.<\/p>\n<p>INJURIES: Pacers: Pascal Siakam: day to day (wrist), Aaron Nesmith: out (ankle), Johnny Furphy: out for season (knee), Ivica Zubac: out (ankle), Tyrese Haliburton: out for season (achilles).<\/p>\n<p>Grizzlies: Taj Gibson: day to day (coach decision), Kentavious Caldwell-Pope: out for season (finger), Ja Morant: out (elbow), Zach Edey: out (ankle), Ty Jerome: day to day (thigh), Cedric Coward: day to day (knee), Santi Aldama: day to day (knee), Brandon Clarke: out (calf).<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Data Skrive;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sportradar;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Memphis Grizzlies (22-36, 11th in the Western Conference) vs. Indiana Pacers (15-45, 15th in the Eastern Conference) Indianapolis;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[280,7,2710,3522,1409,1265,113,126,3866,532,178,643,1252,865,177,6,114,279,1185,7915,181,1201,278,574,1083],"class_list":{"0":"post-629948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indiana-pacers","8":"tag-aaron-nesmith","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-brandon-clarke","11":"tag-cedric-coward","12":"tag-eastern-conference","13":"tag-gg-jackson","14":"tag-indiana","15":"tag-indiana-pacers","16":"tag-indianapacers","17":"tag-ivica-zubac","18":"tag-ja-morant","19":"tag-jarace-walker","20":"tag-johnny-furphy","21":"tag-kentavious-caldwell-pope","22":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","23":"tag-nba","24":"tag-pacers","25":"tag-pascal-siakam","26":"tag-santi-aldama","27":"tag-taj-gibson","28":"tag-the-grizzlies","29":"tag-ty-jerome","30":"tag-tyrese-haliburton","31":"tag-western-conference","32":"tag-zach-edey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116147289268828675","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629948","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=629948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}