{"id":877370,"date":"2026-11-06T08:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T08:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/877370\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T08:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T08:33:14","slug":"indiana-takes-on-the-denver-nuggets-in-mexico-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/877370\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana takes on the Denver Nuggets in Mexico City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/denver-nuggets-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> (4-3, ninth in the Western Conference) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/indiana-pacers-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Pacers<\/a> (3-6, 11th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Mexico City; Saturday, 5 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: The Indiana Pacers square off against the Denver Nuggets in Mexico City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Indiana finished 19-63 overall last season while going 11-30 at home. The Pacers averaged 27.7 assists per game on 40.8 made field goals last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Denver finished 54-28 overall with a 26-15 record on the road last season. The Nuggets averaged 122.1 points per game while shooting 49.6% from the field and 39.6% from 3-point distance last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">INJURIES: Pacers: Tyrese Haliburton: out (hamstring), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/ben-sheppard-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Sheppard<\/a>: out (meniscus), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/kelly-oubre-jr-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly Oubre<\/a> Jr.: day to day (calf), Johnny Furphy: out for season (acl), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/tj-mcconnell-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">T.J. McConnell<\/a>: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Nuggets: Spencer Jones: day to day (hamstring), DeMar DeRozan: day to day (back), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/julian-strawther-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Julian Strawther<\/a>: out (knee).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Denver Nuggets (4-3, ninth in the Western Conference) vs. Indiana Pacers (3-6, 11th in the Eastern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,642,187,78812,113,126,3866,763,6462,1407,6,114,3886],"class_list":["post-877370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indiana-pacers","tag-basketball","tag-ben-sheppard","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-event_preview","tag-indiana","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-indianapacers","tag-julian-strawther","tag-kelly-oubre-jr","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-pacers","tag-t-j-mcconnell"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117568576127390615","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877370","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=877370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}