Isaiah Jackson is playing the best basketball of his rookie season for the Indiana Pacers over the last 11 days. An infrequent contributor through much of the first half of the 2021-22 season, a window of playing time finally opened up when both of Indiana’s big men went down with injuries.
Indy’s starting center Myles Turner has missed two weeks with a stress reaction in his foot while starting power forward Domantas Sabonis returned from an ankle injury for one game before heading out of the lineup and into COVID-19 health and safety protocols.
The absences forced Coach Rick Carlisle to insert Isaiah Jackson into the lineup, and he’s excelling for the depleted Pacers.