{"id":826447,"date":"2026-09-02T17:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/826447\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T17:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:18:15","slug":"pacers-andrew-nembhard-sits-out-for-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/826447\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers&#8217; Andrew Nembhard: Sits out for Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/players\/3041935\/nembhard\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nembhard<\/a> did not participate in Canada&#8217;s latest FIBA World Cup qualifying window as he shifts his focus toward the upcoming NBA season.<\/p>\n<p>Nembhard is coming off a career-best 2025-26 campaign with Indiana, averaging 16.9 points, 7.7 assists, 2.8 rebounds and 0.9 steals in 31.3 minutes across 57 regular-season appearances. The 26-year-old established himself as a full-time starter and primary playmaker for the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/teams\/IND\/indiana-pacers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pacers<\/a>, giving him a strong foundation for fantasy value entering 2026-27. Nembhard should once again handle a significant workload in Indiana&#8217;s backcourt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nembhard did not participate in Canada&#8217;s latest FIBA World Cup qualifying window as he shifts his focus toward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[1784,7,2825,113,126,3866,6,114],"class_list":["post-826447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indiana-pacers","tag-andrew-nembhard","tag-basketball","tag-fantasy-basketball","tag-indiana","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-indianapacers","tag-nba","tag-pacers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117202590346797106","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826447","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=826447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}