{"id":787825,"date":"2026-07-16T05:12:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/787825\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T05:12:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:12:27","slug":"pacers-braden-smith-team-high-eight-assists-in-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/787825\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers’ Braden Smith: Team-high eight assists in loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Smith<\/a> posted eight points (3-6 FG, 2-2 3Pt), eght assists and six rebounds over 26 minutes during Indiana’s 114-98 loss to Minnesota in Wednesday’s Summer League game.<\/p>\n

Smith didn’t have a huge scoring game, though it was better than the donut he put up against the Raptors on Wednesday. He did lead the Pacers<\/a> in assists and finished as the team’s second-leading rebounder behind Jalen Slawson (nine). Smith was a second-round pick of the Pacers in the 2026 NBA Draft, and he figures to spend most of his rookie season in the G League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This page may contain affiliate links. If you click and sign up, make a deposit, or place a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,2456,2825,113,126,3866,6,114],"class_list":["post-787825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indiana-pacers","tag-basketball","tag-braden-smith","tag-fantasy-basketball","tag-indiana","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-indianapacers","tag-nba","tag-pacers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116927944701265263","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787825","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=787825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}