INDIANAPOLIS -- The lineup Pascal Siakam took the floor with to start the second quarter of Friday's game against the Wizards was symbolic of the burden the three-time All-Star forward has had to carry throughout the Pacers' star-crossed 2025-26 season.

None of the other four Pacers entered Friday's game averaging more than 7.3 points or 1.2 assists per game in their careers. In their 16 seasons, Garrison Mathews, Jeremiah Robinson-Earl , Ben Sheppard and Isaiah Jackson had produced exactly one year in which any of them had averaged double-figure scoring. That was the 2021-22 season in which Mathews had averaged exactly 10.0 points per game with the Rockets. None of them had ever averaged more than 1.8 assists per game.

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