{"id":698822,"date":"2026-04-05T01:31:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/698822\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T01:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:31:19","slug":"cavs-will-be-without-multiple-starters-in-sundays-game-vs-pacers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/698822\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavs will be without multiple starters in Sunday\u2019s game vs. Pacers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> will be starting the first round of the playoffs in two weeks. There isn\u2019t much left to prove in the regular season. Their number one focus is making sure they\u2019re healthy for the playoffs. As a result, it shouldn\u2019t come as a surprise that they will be without multiple key players for their game against the Indiana Pacers on Easter.<\/p>\n

Cleveland will be missing starting center Jarrett Allen for what the injury report labels as right knee injury management. Allen hurt his knee during the Cavs\u2019 March 3 victory over the Detroit Pistons<\/a>. This caused him to miss 10 games after the injury.<\/p>\n

Allen has performed well after returning to the lineup for the team\u2019s March 27 win over the Miami Heat. However, he is still paying through pain. Cleveland.com\u2019s Chris Fedor<\/a> reported last week that Allen is still in pain and not quite 100%.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Evan Mobley will also be out due to left calf injury management. Being without both starting bigs will likely force Thomas Bryant into the lineup. It could also allow two-way forwards, Olivier Sarr and Riley Minix, some playing time with the team after the Cleveland Charge\u2019s season concluded this past week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Cavaliers also won\u2019t have the services of Sam Merrill. He\u2019s been dealing with and playing through various injuries throughout the season. Merrill is being held out on Sunday with the designation of left hamstring injury management.<\/p>\n

The Cavs will still be without Dean Wade (ankle) and Jaylon Tyson (toe). The team hasn\u2019t released an update on those injuries since saying they both would be missing the team\u2019s recent three-game road trip<\/a> that wrapped up on Friday. We\u2019ll likely get some sort of update from head coach Kenny Atkinson on their injuries before Sunday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n

The Pacers, meanwhile, will be down several key players. They will be without Tyrese Haliburton (Achilles), Pascal Siakam (ankle), Johnny Furphy (ACL), T.J. McConnell (hamstring), Andrew Nembhard (back), Aaron Nesmith (neck), and Ivica Zubac (rib).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Cavaliers will be starting the first round of the playoffs in two weeks. There isn\u2019t much…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,148,147,113,126,3866,6,114],"class_list":{"0":"post-698822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indiana-pacers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cavs-injury-report","10":"tag-cavs-news","11":"tag-indiana","12":"tag-indiana-pacers","13":"tag-indianapacers","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-pacers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116349520634032135","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698822","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=698822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}