{"id":704472,"date":"2026-04-08T03:21:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/704472\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T03:21:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:21:45","slug":"pacers-carlisle-to-miss-2-games-to-attend-daughters-spring-formal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/704472\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers&#8217; Carlisle to miss 2 games to attend daughter&#8217;s spring formal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/ind\/indiana-pacers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Pacers<\/a> coach Rick Carlisle will miss the team&#8217;s next two games to attend his only daughter&#8217;s spring formal, he said following Tuesday night&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/game\/_\/gameId\/401811007\/timberwolves-pacers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">124-104<\/a> loss to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/boxscore\/_\/gameId\/401811007\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacers have the league&#8217;s second-worst record and have lost three straight. They&#8217;re just 4-22 in their past 26 games during an injury-plagued season in which All-Star guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4396993\/tyrese-haliburton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyrese Haliburton<\/a> has not played a game after tearing his right Achilles tendon during Game 7 of last year&#8217;s NBA Finals.<\/p>\n<p>Lloyd Pierce will coach the team when it plays Thursday in Brooklyn and hosts Philadelphia on Friday. Indiana closes out the season by hosting the Eastern Conference&#8217;s top seed Detroit, which also gave Carlisle his first head coaching job in 2001-02.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Abby has an event at school and so Herb [Simon] and Kevin [Pritchard] cleared me to do that,&#8221; Carlisle said, referring to the Pacers&#8217; team owner and president of basketball operations. &#8220;So Lloyd has the team for the next couple of games, and I&#8217;ll be back Sunday.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS &#8212; Indiana Pacers coach Rick Carlisle will miss the team&#8217;s next two games to attend his only&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,113,126,3866,6,114],"class_list":{"0":"post-704472","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-pacers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116366943193886325","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704472","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=704472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}