Caris LeVert is expected to miss 10-14 days due to health and safety protocols, beginning with tonight’s play-in game against the Charlotte Hornets, reports The Athletic’s Shams Charania. If LeVert is out for 10 days and the Pacers somehow manage to scrape past the Hornets with a shorthanded roster, this means the team would also be without the slippery playmaker for the second game of the play-in tournament as well as (long shot!) the start of the playoffs.
Basketball obviously comes second to LeVert’s overall health and well-being, but his absence also couldn’t come at a worse time for a team that is already down by at least two starters — especially against an opponent that is among the league’s leaders in switch-rate on ball screens, which has oftentimes stymied Indiana’s offense.