The Indiana Pacers announced Thursday that the team was granted an NBA Hardship Exception and subsequently signed guard Garrison Mathews to a 10-day contract.
Mathews will wear number 24 and is available for Friday’s Emirates NBA Cup game at Cleveland, which will air on Amazon Prime at 7:00pm ET.
Via the Indy Star:
Teams are allowed to sign players to hardship exception contracts if they have at least four players who have missed three consecutive games and who are expected to miss at least two more weeks. The Pacers had six players listed as “out” for Wednesday’s game against the Hornets — All-Star point guard Tyrese Haliburton, forwards Obi Toppin, Aaron Nesmith and Johnny Furphy and guards Kam Jones and Quenton Jackson. Haliburton is out for the season, Toppin is out until at least Feb. 1. Nesmith, who missed his third consecutive game Wednesday, is out approximately four weeks. The Pacers haven’t given timelines on Jones, Jackson or Furphy but Pacers coach Rick Carlisle said Jones is still “aways out” with a lower back stress reaction.
