{"id":640180,"date":"2026-03-05T03:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T03:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/640180\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T03:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T03:57:18","slug":"pacers-ben-sheppard-headed-to-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/640180\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers&#8217; Ben Sheppard: Headed to bench"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/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\/3141908\/sheppard\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sheppard<\/a> will come off the bench for Wednesday&#8217;s game versus the Clippers, Tony East of Forbes.com reports.<\/p>\n<p>Sheppard will retreat to the second unit with Andrew Nembhard (neck) and Aaron Nesmith (ankle) active and starting. As a reserve this season, Sheppard has posted averages of 6.0 points and 2.9 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheppard will come off the bench for Wednesday&#8217;s game versus the Clippers, Tony East of Forbes.com reports. Sheppard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,642,2825,113,126,3866,6,114],"class_list":{"0":"post-640180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indiana-pacers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ben-sheppard","10":"tag-fantasy-basketball","11":"tag-indiana","12":"tag-indiana-pacers","13":"tag-indianapacers","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-pacers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640180","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=640180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}