{"id":791798,"date":"2026-07-21T02:12:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/791798\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T02:12:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:12:27","slug":"taelon-peter-waived-by-pacers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/791798\/","title":{"rendered":"Taelon Peter Waived By Pacers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>5:15 pm:\u00a0Peter has been waived, per <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/players\/transactions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBA.com\u2019s log of official transactions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Taelon-Peter-vert-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-451179\"  \/>4:42 pm: The Pacers plan to waive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/p\/peterta01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-20_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Taelon Peter<\/a>, who is on a two-way contract, league sources tell Michael Scotto of HoopsHype (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeAScotto\/status\/2079319511153381479\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Indiana selected the 6\u20193\u2033 guard with the 54th overall pick in last year\u2019s draft. He signed a two-year, two-way deal with the Pacers last July.<\/p>\n<p>Peter, 24, made 38 NBA appearances for the Pacers as a rookie, averaging 4.5 points, 1.6 rebounds and 1.1 assists in 12.9 minutes per game. His shooting slash line was .380\/.328\/.625.<\/p>\n<p>The former Liberty standout also played 20 games (32.5 MPG) for Indiana\u2019s G League affiliate, the Noblesville Boom, averaging 14.9 PPG, 5.2 RPG, 3.8 APG and 1.5 SPG on .415\/.363\/.833 shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Peter just finished playing for the Pacers\u2019 Summer League team in Las Vegas. He averaged 10.4 PPG, 1.8 RPG, 1.8 APG and 1.2 SPG on .500\/.357\/.833 shooting in five appearances (24.3 MPG), though he struggled with turnovers (2.2 per game).<\/p>\n<p>NBA teams are permitted to carry three players on two-way contracts, and Indiana\u2019s two-way situation still appears to be crowded even after cutting Peter loose. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/t\/thompet01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-20_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ethan Thompson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/brownko01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-20_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kobe Brown<\/a> remain under contract, the team has a two-way qualifying offer on the table for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/s\/slawsja01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-06_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jalen Slawson<\/a>, and also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/06\/pacers-acquiring-no-38-pick-braden-smith-from-bulls.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reportedly intends<\/a> to sign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/s\/smithbr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-06_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Braden Smith<\/a> to a two-way contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"5:15 pm:\u00a0Peter has been waived, per NBA.com\u2019s log of official transactions. 4:42 pm: The Pacers plan to waive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,113,126,3866,6,114,25642],"class_list":["post-791798","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-taelon-peter"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116955548763674415","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791798","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=791798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}