{"id":38810,"date":"2025-12-23T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=38810"},"modified":"2025-12-23T15:39:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T15:39:00","slug":"pacers-want-nba-to-review-play-that-injured-isaiah-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=38810","title":{"rendered":"Pacers want NBA to review play that injured Isaiah Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/><span class=\"timestamp \">Dec 23, 2025, 12:00 AM ET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>BOSTON &#8212; Indiana Pacers coach Rick Carlisle wants the league to look at a play in the first quarter where he says Boston Celtics center Neemias Queta elbowed Isaiah Jackson twice, forcing the forward out of the game as he was evaluated for a concussion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know what the exact rule is,&#8221; Carlisle said after Indiana lost to Boston 103-95 on Monday night. &#8220;I think it was 4:30 or 4:32 to go in the first quarter, there was a play where Isaiah Jackson gets elbowed by Queta and then simultaneously gets elbowed a second time. Then he has to go out of the game for concussion observation and then was unable to return.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope the league looks at that. That was a play that I felt should have been looked at in real time. It did not appear to be accidental, and it&#8217;s very dangerous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jackson came off the bench in Monday&#8217;s game averaging 7.6 points and 6.1 rebounds in 18.8 minutes over 28 games this season. He played just two minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know how long he&#8217;s going to be out, but it&#8217;s pretty serious,&#8221; Carlisle said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The play that happened, it just can&#8217;t be missed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 23, 2025, 12:00 AM ET BOSTON &#8212; Indiana Pacers coach Rick Carlisle wants the league to look at a play in the first quarter where he says Boston Celtics center Neemias Queta elbowed Isaiah Jackson twice, forcing the forward out of the game as he was evaluated for a concussion. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[1597,9453,4912,409,1062,2658,1085],"class_list":{"0":"post-38810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-injured","9":"tag-isaiah","10":"tag-jackson","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-pacers","13":"tag-play","14":"tag-review"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}