Everything is shaping up for the Indiana Pacers to have a nightmare 2025-26 season. Things were already looking difficult heading into the year, what with Tyrese Haliburton set to miss the entirety of the campaign after rupturing his Achilles tendon in Game 7 of the 2025 NBA Finals. But everything that's happened since has just made things worse for them.

TJ McConnell suffered a hamstring injury in preseason, keeping him out for at least a month. And then in the Pacers' season-opener against the Oklahoma City Thunder, Andrew Nembhard suffered a shoulder injury. And then just as the cherry on top of what is already turning to a one-of-a-kind crap sandwich, Bennedict Mathurin, who's been off to a brilliant start to the new campaign, sustained a turf toe injury over the weekend, severe

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