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Indiana Pacers forward Danny Granger has been released from a hospital after a CT scan on his head and neck found no problems.

Granger took an inadvertent elbow to his upper right cheek in the final minute of Tuesday’s game against Charlotte. The team says Granger was checked out at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis and would miss Wednesday’s game against the Cleveland Cavaliers.

The Pacers said team doctors will continue to evaluate Granger, a 2009 NBA All-Star.

Granger is the top scorer for the Pacers, averaging 23.1 points a game.

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Pacers try teamwork in Granger’s absence
The Indiana Pacers knew they couldn’t have one player try to make up for the absence of Danny Granger. So instead, they used a team effort to beat the Philadelphia 76ers 107-96 to end a four-game losing streak Tuesday night at Conseco Fieldhouse.

“Danny is our leading scorer and our go-to guy, and definitely we look at him to do some scoring,” swingman Dahntay Jones said. “But it wasn’t on one person’s shoulders. It was a team effort, and the ball didn’t stop (moving), and we didn’t look for one guy to make plays for us. We made plays for everybody. That’s a team effort.”

Granger missed the game while serving a league-mandated one-game suspension for an altercation in Phoenix on Saturday.
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Dahntay Jones drops from the sky to lower the primal roar boom from an Earl Watson alley-oop pass. 100%  certified Midwestern nastiness!

Indiana Pacers forward Danny Granger will be out of the lineup at least four to six weeks with a torn right plantar fascia, the team announced on Tuesday.

Granger sat out practice on Monday, then left Conseco Fieldhouse to get an MRI, which confirmed the injury on Tuesday.

The 6-foot-8 forward, who has been slowed by a heel bruise since the preseason, aggravated the foot in the Pacers’ 88-72 setback at the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday.

In 17 games this season, Granger is averaging a team-best 24.4 points to go along with 6.1 rebounds per game.

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Monta Ellis had a career night in two different ways yesterday, in a 107-126 Golden State Warriors win over the Indiana Pacers. On one hand, Ellis bagged a career high 45 points. On the other hand, Dahntay Jones served Ellis with the biggest facial he’s ever received in his career.

At least both of these achievements are equally impressive.

I’ve seen former North Carolina Tar Heel and current India Pacers rookie Tyler Hansbrough dunk on a 7′7″ dude, go ape sh*t with a bloody nose, find a puppy with technology and now act in a commercial for Performance Acura of Chapel Hill, NC.

Wow, I just realized that I’ve never seen him actually play any NBA basketball yet, though — how ironic indeed.

via Indy Cornrows, Deadspin, Rush The Court,  + BallDon’t Lie

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The Indiana Pacers have been steadily below average for years, but with Danny Granger emerging as a star in the league, things are finally heading in the right direction.

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When word of a missing dog spreads on a college campus, AT&T’s 3G network and social media apps gets the credit. But really it was the big man on campus, Tyler Hansbrough that cracked the case of the little girls missing dog wide open with his Ace Ventura like pet detective skills.

Alrighty then! Case closed.

Via Tar Heel Fan

Tyler Hansbrough is being put on the shelf for the rest of the summer, a move the Indiana Pacers hope allows their first-round draft pick to be healthy for his rookie season.

Hansbrough has a lingering right shin injury from college and needs to rest it six to eight weeks, the Pacers said Friday.

The Pacers said no new injury has occurred, but they want to limit Hansbrough’s activity in hopes he will be healthy for the 82-game NBA regular season.

Training camp is scheduled to start in late September or early October, depending on the details of the Pacers’ trip to China for preseason games.

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The Indiana Pacers have signed Tyler Hansbrough, the former North Carolina star who was the team’s top pick in the NBA draft.

The 6-foot-9 forward had been playing with the Pacers summer league team in Orlando, Fla., before his singing was announced Wednesday.

As the 13th overall pick, he’s slotted in the NBA’s rookie salary scale to receive about $1.5 million this season and nearly $1.7 million next season, with a $1.8 million option for his third year.

Hansbrough is the Atlantic Coast Conference’s career-scoring leader and had 40 points and nine rebounds in his first two summer league games for the Pacers.

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