{"id":630331,"date":"2026-02-28T13:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/630331\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T13:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:34:15","slug":"pacers-promoting-quenton-jackson-to-three-year-standard-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/630331\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers Promoting Quenton Jackson To Three-Year Standard Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pacers are giving Quenton Jackson<\/a> a promotion, according to Shams Charania of ESPN, who reports (via Twitter<\/a>) that the two-way guard will be converted to a three-year standard contract. Jackson\u2019s agents at Klutch Sports informed Charania of the deal.<\/p>\n

\"\"Jackson, a four-year veteran, admitted to Tony Easy of Forbes and Circle City Spin that he had been thinking about the possibility of being promoted by Indiana (Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve thought about it. It\u2019s hard not to think about it,\u201d Jackson said. \u201cBut at the same time, I wouldn\u2019t say I wrap my head around it too much. In this game, it\u2019s best to think about the things that you can control.\u201d<\/p>\n

A league source tells East (Twitter link<\/a>) that Jackson\u2019s new deal will be partially guaranteed in 2026\/27 and non-guaranteed for the \u201927\/28 campaign.<\/p>\n

A 27-year-old point guard, Jackson went undrafted in 2022 out of Texas A&M. He has made 30 appearances this season for the Pacers, averaging 9.2 points, 2.2 rebounds and 2.1 assists in 17.3 minutes per game. His shooting line is a very solid .489\/.409\/.810.<\/p>\n

Jackson\u2019s two-way deal expires at season\u2019s end. And because this is his fourth NBA season, he wouldn\u2019t be eligible for another two-way contract in 2026\/27, so Indiana needed to move him to the standard roster in order to retain him beyond this year.<\/p>\n

General manager Chad Buchanan, Dustin Dopriak of The Indianapolis Star, and most recently East previously<\/a> identified<\/a> Jackson as a candidate<\/a> to be promoted. The Pacers were carrying an open standard roster spot, so no corresponding move was needed to convert Jackson.<\/p>\n

Buchanan told East a couple weeks ago that Jackson was \u201ca big part of our culture in our locker room\u201d and lauded the fourth-year guard\u2019s energy, toughness, and positive attitude. For his part, Jackson said he loved<\/a> Indiana and his fit within the team\u2019s offense.<\/p>\n

Promoting Jackson will create a two-way opening for the Pacers, which they\u2019ll have until next Wednesday to fill. Taelon Peter<\/a> and Ethan Thompson<\/a> currently hold Indiana\u2019s other two-way spots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pacers are giving Quenton Jackson a promotion, according to Shams Charania of ESPN, who reports (via Twitter)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,113,126,3866,6,114,10986],"class_list":["post-630331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indiana-pacers","tag-basketball","tag-indiana","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-indianapacers","tag-nba","tag-pacers","tag-quenton-jackson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116148523938333231","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630331","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=630331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}