Nets And Pacers Final Injury Reports And Starting Lineups
The Brooklyn Nets and Indiana Pacers are facing off in Indianapolis on Friday night.
For the game, the two teams have finalized their injury reports and starting lineups.
The Nets will be without T.J. Warren, Yuta Watanabe and Alondes Williams.
Meanwhile, the Pacers will be without Chris Duarte, Daniel Theis, Kendall Brown, Trevelin Queen and Andrew Nembhard.
Isaiah Jackson has been upgraded to available.
The starting lineups for both teams has been relayed by Underdog NBA.
Underdog NBA: "Lineup alert: Nets will start Simmons, Irving, O'Neale, Durant, Claxton on Friday."
Underdog NBA: "Lineup alert: Pacers will start Haliburton, Hield, Nesmith, Smith, Turner on Friday."
The Nets enter the night with a 9-10 record in their first 19 games, which has them as the tenth seed in the Eastern Conference.
They are 6-4 in their last ten games and 5-6 in the 11 games they have played on the road away from Barclays Center.
So far, they have underachieved to start the new season, but anything is possible with the talent they have on the roster (Ben Simmons, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant).
As for the Pacers, they have been overachieving to start the 2022-23 season.
The franchise traded away key veterans over the last year and looked like they were going to be among the worst teams in the league.
So far, they look like a team who could make the NBA Playoffs.
They are 10-7 in their first 17 games and the fifth seed in the east.
At home, they have a 6-4 record in ten games.