{"id":507901,"date":"2026-02-05T16:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=507901"},"modified":"2026-02-05T16:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:50:08","slug":"clippers-trade-zubac-to-the-pacers-for-2-players-and-draft-picks","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/clippers-trade-zubac-to-the-pacers-for-2-players-and-draft-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers trade Zubac to the Pacers for 2 players and draft picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indiana Pacers are acquiring center Ivica Zubac from the LA Clippers for Bennedict Mathurin, Isaiah Jackson, 2 1<sup>st<\/sup>-round selections, and 1 2<sup>nd<\/sup>-round selection.<\/p>\n<p>The Packers now have a new starting center as he will replace Myles Turner, who left the organization during the offseason. Indiana has a 13-38 record in the current campaign, 1 of the worst in the league, but the trade for Ivica is with an eye on the future.<\/p>\n<p>The center, who will become 29 years old in March, is averaging 14 points and 11 boards on 61% shooting in the current campaign. Zubac is under deal through the 2027-28 campaign and will provide a new pick-and-roll partner when Indiana leader Tyrese Haliburton returns next campaign from a torn ACL.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacers also got 3<sup>rd<\/sup>-year guard Kobe Brown in the exchange.<\/p>\n<p>The Clippers got this year\u2019s 1<sup>st<\/sup>-round selection from Indiana, protected from picks Nos. 1-4 and 10-30 and a 2029 unprotected Indiana 1<sup>st<\/sup>-rounder.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ivica Zubac this season:<\/p>\n<p>14.4 PPG<br \/>11.0 RPG<br \/>2.2 APG<br \/>61.3% FG%<\/p>\n<p>The Pacers grab one of the top bigs on the market \ud83d\udcaa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ncr92RN0ke\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ncr92RN0ke<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; DraftKings Network (@DKNetwork) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DKNetwork\/status\/2019490155053076557?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 5, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indiana Pacers are acquiring center Ivica Zubac from the LA Clippers for Bennedict Mathurin, Isaiah Jackson, 2 1st-round selections, and 1 2nd-round [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":507902,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16971,27038,17188],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[18386,22446,18478],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Los Angeles made a move that sent the center to Indiana.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507903,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507901\/revisions\/507903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507901"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=507901"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=507901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}