{"id":30133,"date":"2024-03-10T01:28:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T22:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/30133\/pacers-guard-bennedict-mathurin-to\/"},"modified":"2024-03-10T01:28:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T22:28:30","slug":"pacers-guard-bennedict-mathurin-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=30133","title":{"rendered":"Pacers guard Bennedict Mathurin to have season-ending surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pacers guard Bennedict Mathurin to have season-ending surgery\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\">\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Adrian Wojnarowski, ESPN<span class=\"timestamp \">March 9, 2024, 9:06 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Indiana Pacers guard Bennedict Mathurin will undergo season-ending surgery to repair a torn right labrum, the team announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The defeat of Mathurin is a hard blow for the bench of the best offensive team in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>The operation will be performed by Dr. Neal ElAttrache in Los Angeles next <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/week\/\"   title=\"week\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">week<\/a>, the team said.  Mathurin is expected to be fully recovered for the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/start\/\"   title=\"start\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">start<\/a> of the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n<p>Mathurin was playing better and better, averaging 19 points on 41.4% shooting from 3-point range in his last five games.<\/p>\n<p>At 21, Mathurin \u2013 a 2023 first-team All-Rookie selection \u2013 averaged 14.5 points and cemented himself as a leader on one of the league&#39;s best bench units.  He was the MVP of the Rising Stars 2024 game during All-Star Weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Mathurin \u2013 the sixth overall pick in the 2022 NBA Draft \u2013 averaged 16.7 points in his rookie season.  The Pacers entered Saturday 35-29 and eighth in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pacers guard Bennedict Mathurin to have season-ending surgery\u060c Adrian Wojnarowski, ESPNMarch 9, 2024, 9:06 p.m. Indiana Pacers guard Bennedict Mathurin will undergo season-ending surgery to repair a torn right labrum, the team announced Saturday. The defeat of Mathurin is a hard blow for the bench of the best offensive team in the NBA. The operation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11740,4456,10832,4501,4830,2060],"class_list":["post-30133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-bennedict","tag-guard","tag-mathurin","tag-pacers","tag-seasonending","tag-surgery"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30135,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30133\/revisions\/30135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}