J. Michael Falgoust: McMillan on TJ Warren’s plantar fasciitis: “He has been experiencing that really throughout the season. Been able to play on it.” #PacersRockets
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Position: F
Born: 09/05/93
Height: 6-8 / 2.03
Weight:220 lbs. / 99.8 kg.
Salary: $11,060,000
Born: 09/05/93
Height: 6-8 / 2.03
Weight:220 lbs. / 99.8 kg.
Salary: $11,060,000
TJ Warren suffering from foot injury
J. Michael: McMillan says Warren’s foot injury is the same as Sabonis…plantar fasciitis #PacersRockets
StatMuse: Most 30-point games in the bubble: 5 — Devin Booker 4 — TJ Warren 4 — Giannis pic.twitter.com/suyV9KzzTJ
J. Michael Falgoust: McMillan on the Warren-Butler rivalry: “The focus has been on Miami, not on the buildup that has been in the media” #PacersHeat
With 39 more points on 15-of-22 shooting in a 116-111 win against the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday, it’s Indiana Pacers forward T.J. Warren, who bumped his average to 34.8 points on a scalding 60.5% shooting, including 55.6% from 3. Pacers star Victor Oladipo said his teammate is “on a different planet right now,” but Warren has a much more grounded explanation for his recent success. “It’s me just putting in the time and work in the offseason,” Warren said. “During the time off just staying locked, staying in love with the game and just being myself when I’m out there. I’ve got a good supporting cast, good family and friends, so that helps a lot. And the organization, the Pacers welcomed me in with open arms and brought me in, so I’m just grateful for everything right now.”
What is up with the bubble version of T.J. Warren? Does he have a new routine? Eating differently? “I’ve really just been taking more time for myself,” Warren said. “Meditating more.”
StatMuse: TJ Warren in 5 bubble games: 34.8 PPG* 60.5 FG% 55.6 3P% +80 +/-* *Leads NBA pic.twitter.com/JBcM0J3ZvZ
NBA on TNT: TJ WARREN CAN’T BE STOPPED!
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Duane Rankin: “It’s very disrespectful.” T.J. Warren talks on @NBAonTNT about the #Suns trading him for cash considerations. pic.twitter.com/hxZOOgPMen
“If you know T.J. Warren,” Pacers guard Aaron Holiday said, “you know he’s a bucket.” The explanation isn’t complicated, either. Warren works—constantly. Teammates say he only thinks about the game. His mentor, ex-Pacer David West, was equally committed. “I play a lot of basketball,” Warren said. “Whether I’m at home or with my friends, I just want to be a hooper.”
Warren didn’t work on his three-point shot during the pandemic. Like many, he couldn’t find a gym. At the parks he went to, the rims weren’t ten feet high. The work, Warren says, came mentally. He watched a lot of film. He “locked in” on his weaknesses. Pacers coach Nate McMillan has encouraged Warren to be aggressive, and Warren has embraced it. “I’ve always been the underdog,” Warren said. “I’m comfortable with that. I just have to keep getting better day by day.”
Few could have imagined the red-hot start that both the Indiana Pacers and Phoenix Suns have gotten off to in the NBA bubble with 3-0 records. For Pacers forward T.J. Warren, the setting in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, suits him perfectly: all basketball, all the time. Never mind the fact that he’s facing his former team that traded him to Indiana last summer for cash considerations. Warren says he just wants to hoop.
“Even with all that in the past, I was always self-motivated,” Warren told ESPN by phone Wednesday. “Never allowed nobody to put a limit on my talent. No matter what the political stuff was or anything from high school, college to the NBA, you always face adversity, but I feel like it’s how you respond, how you rise to the occasion and I feel like me, personally, I just always feel like I’m able to adapt and respond in a positive way with my game.
Booker nailed a buzzer-beating, turnaround jumper over Paul George to cap a 35-point performance in a 117-115 win over the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday. Even as impressive as he has been, Booker still finds the time to chat regularly with his old teammate as they’re looking forward to the clash. “We still communicate. We still talk a lot,” Booker said of Warren. “This relationship, that’s for life. It’s a respectful relationship. I’m happy the situation that he’s in and the opportunity that he’s getting and the way he’s performing.”
Josh Robbins: Final: Pacers 120, Magic 109 Warren: 32 pts. (13/17 FGAs), 2 rebs., 3 assts. Vucevic: 24 pts., 10 rebs., 2 assts. Gordon: 20 pts., 7 rebs., 3 assts. Ross: 20 pts., 3 rebs. FG%: Pacers 55%, Magic, 48% Turnovers: Pacers 7, Magic 18
Scott Agness: Pacers earn their 41st win of the season, 111-100 over the Wizards. Now 2-0 in the restart. Pacers used runs of 20-2 and 22-2 to grow their lead, as large as 22. T.J. Warren had 34/11/4/4. Brogdon added 20/7/6. Up next: vs Orlando tomorrow in their only b2b.
T.J. Warren? Really nice player, an amazing acquisition from the clueless Phoenix Suns, who gave him away for “cash considerations,” but you could have gotten a trillion-to-1 odds on Warren going for 50-plus on the very first regular-season game in the bubble. Or in any game. Anywhere. “We fed the dragon,” Oladipo said, smiling. “A guy that hot, you try to get him the ball, and I thought all our guys were trying to do that,” Pacers coach Nate McMillan said. “T.J. was as hot as I’ve ever seen him. And I thought his teammates did a good job of sacrificing, of screening and getting him the ball and giving him proper spacing. You’ve got to milk him. I thought our point guards (Aaron Holiday and T.J. McConnell), they combined for 18 assists, we had 44 assists in the game, so our ball movement was good, and a lot of that was ending up in T.J.’s hands.”
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Since the Pacers returned to Indianapolis and then headed down to the bubble, teammates have been talking up Warren, how focused and prepared he seemed to be after the long layoff, but this … well, this was out of this world. This was Harden-esque. Or LeBron-esque. T.J. Warren? Really nice player, an amazing acquisition from the clueless Phoenix Suns, who gave him away for “cash considerations,” but you could have gotten a trillion-to-1 odds on Warren going for 50-plus on the very first regular-season game in the bubble. Or in any game. Anywhere. “We fed the dragon,” Oladipo said, smiling. “A guy that hot, you try to get him the ball, and I thought all our guys were trying to do that,” Pacers coach Nate McMillan said. “T.J. was as hot as I’ve ever seen him. And I thought his teammates did a good job of sacrificing, of screening and getting him the ball and giving him proper spacing. You’ve got to milk him. I thought our point guards (Aaron Holiday and T.J. McConnell), they combined for 18 assists, we had 44 assists in the game, so our ball movement was good, and a lot of that was ending up in T.J.’s hands.”
They pulled out the 127-121 victory against the Philadelphia 76ers to win the season series and get the upper hand in race for Eastern Conference seeding. T.J. Warren set a career-high with 53 points on 20-of-29 shooting, including 9-of-12 from 3-point range. His season-high was 36. His previous career-high was 40 with the Phoenix Suns. Only Reggie Miller (57) and Jermaine O’Neal (55) have scored more in an NBA game for the Pacers. “It was a special game,” Warren said. “Locked in. Laser-focused throughout the whole game. My teammates did a great job of feeding me the ball and being myself out there. Doing what I do best. Put the ball in the basket.”
Eric Woodyard: Pacers’ TJ Warren after 53-point night: “I’ve always been the underdog. I feel like that’s kind of like my permanent position so I’m kind of comfortable with that.”
Kyle Neubeck: Tobias Harris sums up the Warren issue like so: “Too many times we guarded him like he was not on fire.”
Kyle Neubeck: Brown on Warren: “I think that the space we gave him was too generous…we didn’t get it done the way we needed to get it done.” Said it was something they talked about after the big first quarter, never quite got fixed.
J. Michael Falgoust: McMillan says the starting 5 he’s using in these scrimmages is what he’ll likely go into the seeding games using. Thats Turner, Warren, Oladipo, Brogdon, AHoliday. “I envision that lineup being the lineup we go with.” #Pacers
Scott Agness: Pacers beat the Mavs in scrimmage No. 2, 118-111. TJ Warren scored 20, Oladipo had 16 and looked even better, and T.J. McConnell had several marvelous passes. One final tune-up on Tuesday vs Spurs.
Scott Agness: Myles Turner will play today vs Mavs. Pacers will start small with Aaron Holiday. TJ Warren plays the 4.
Scott Agness: Pacers beat the Blazers in the first of three scrimmages, 91-88. Good feel-it-out type of game. – Starters played 19mins. Oladipo had 8, Brogdon & Warren each with 11. – JHoliday led the Pacers with 16pts. – All 13 active guys played; Turner, Sabonis, Bitadze DNP
Scott Agness: Doug McDermott: “Really impressed with T.J. Warren. Victor (Oladipo), in particular, looks phenomenal. I’m really excited to see him back on the floor.”
Andre Fernandez: Jimmy Butler on playing the #Pacers twice in seeding games. Smiling under his mask: “It’s just a basketball game to me.” #HeatTwitter
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Scott Agness: Pacers’ injury report for Sunday’s game in Dallas, where they’ll conclude a 5-game road trip: OUT: Lamb, Brogdon DOUBTFUL: McDermott QUESTIONABLE: Oladipo, Warren NWT: Johnson, Bowen II, Mitrou-Long
Mike McGraw: Brogdon out, Oladipo in, Warren GTD, McDermott out. Aaron Holiday will start. #Bulls #Pacers
J. Michael Falgoust: Brogdon (hip) is doubtful for #PacersBulls and getting an MRI. also McDermott (toe), Warren (left leg laceration/stitches) and Sampson (hip) are questionable
Reggie Miller was asked about Victor Oladipo’s return to the lineup and what that meant for the Pacers. Miller shared what he said heard from Pacers coach Nate McMillan before the matchup. “This lineup for the Pacers is the future,” Miller said. The lineup Miller referred to consists of Oladipo, Malcolm Brogdon, T.J. Warren, Domantas Sabonis and Myles Turner.
