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The Indiana Pacers have surprised some people by making themselves into a playoff-caliber team this season.
They entered Monday with a 20-15 record, putting them in the seventh seed in the Eastern Conference, and they’re currently engaged in a competitive battle with the first-place Boston Celtics.
Unfortunately, the Pacers suffered an injury scare when star guard Tyrese Haliburton had to exit the game with a left hamstring strain, and per their official Twitter account, he will not return to the contest.
Injury Update: Tyrese Haliburton (left hamstring strain) will not return to tonight’s game.
— Indiana Pacers (@Pacers) January 9, 2024
Haliburton, the No. 12 pick in the 2020 NBA Draft, had emerged as an All-Star last season, but this season, he has taken his game to new heights.
Coming into Monday, he was averaging 24.2 points and a league-high 12.7 assists a game while shooting 49.6 percent from the field and 40.4 percent from 3-point range.
Thanks in large part to his production, the Pacers are averaging an incredible 126.8 points per game, and if that figure holds up, it would be the highest scoring average for a team in NBA history.
They’re also tops in field-goal percentage, assists per game, offensive rating, and fast-break points per game.
Indiana had lost to the Celtics on Saturday, 118-101, a loss that snapped their six-game winning streak.
In that game, the Celtics’ stingy defense held them to 41.3 percent field-goal shooting, and they were colder than Greenland from downtown, as they made just 19 percent of their attempts from that distance.
The Pacers will host the Washington Wizards on Wednesday before starting a six-game road trip that includes a contest versus the defending world champion Denver Nuggets on Sunday.
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