The Indiana Pacers will be without acrobatic backup forward Obi Toppin for at least three months once he undergoes foot surgery next week. The team announced that Toppin had a partial stress fracture of the fifth metatarsal in his right foot and will travel to New York for surgery.
Christmas and the NBA go hand-in-hand. The day serves for the top hoops league in the world, like Thanksgiving for the NFL. However, while the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys are perpetual Thanksgiving participants, the NBA has mixed up the matchups and the teams throughout the years.
The news on Obi Toppin isn’t good, and that’s just the way things are going for the Pacers. Head coach Rick Carlisle told reporters that Toppin will undergo surgery to insert a screw in the fifth metatarsal of his right foot, per Dustin Dopirak of The Indianapolis Star and Ohm Youngmisuk of ESPN.
The injury bug just keeps biting the Pacers. Coach Rick Carlisle told reporters Tuesday that forward Obi Toppin will miss at least a month with a right hamstring strain and guard Bennedict Mathurin is considered week-to-week due to a right toe sprain, per Dustin Dopirak of The Indianapolis Star.
Obi Toppin left Sunday’s Indiana Pacers game against the Minnesota Timberwolves with right-leg soreness and did not return, the Pacers announced on X, formerly Twitter.
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