The year from hell continues to get worse for the Indiana Pacers and their fans. During Thursday night’s third quarter against the Phoenix Suns, Aaron Nesmith stepped on the foot of a teammate which caused his other foot to slide as he was on defense. His left knee got caught up and he fell to the ground awkwardly.
In clear agony, he slammed his fist on the court in frustration. He was quickly ruled out for the game with the injury deemed left knee soreness. An MRI is likely on the way for the Pacers starter as they travel back to Indianapolis after this game. Nesmith exited the floor with help from teammates as Tyrese Haliburton followed him to the locker room.
The team is hopeful that he avoided any major injury at the moment, fortunately.
“We’re hoping that Aaron’s situation is not very serious. At this point, it looks like we may have dodged a bullet,” Rick Carlisle told reporters after the game, “… in terms of something that is very serious but he’ll miss some time.”
The Pacers were just starting to get healthy with Andrew Nembhard and T.J. McConnell both back in action during this road trip though they were still missing seven players in this current game. If this ends up being a major injury like Nesmith seemed to fear it was when he initially went down, he joins both Tyrese Haliburton and Obi Toppin with injuries that will keep them out for significant amounts of time. But for now, it appears he avoided what was initially feared to be a significant injury.
Every time you think things can’t get worse, somehow they do. Haliburton out for the year, McConnell hurts his hamstring in preseason, Nembhard misses multiple weeks after being injured in the opener, Bennedict Mathurin still out ever since his injury in game two ruining an impressive scoring start to his season, Obi Toppin has foot surgery, the entire team can’t make shots, they’ve matched their worst start in franchise history at 1-11, not to mention other injuries to Johnny Furphy, Quenton Jackson, Taelon Peter, and Ben Sheppard during this stretch, and now we wait for the news on how long Aaron Nesmith is out. Perhaps another glimmer of hope from IndyStar’s Dustin Dopirak saying that Nesmith walked out of the locker room with a big limp but on his own.
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