Brooklyn at Indiana

Tyrese Haliburton scored 24 points and handed out 10 assists when Indiana beat Brooklyn 136-109 a week ago Sunday. He is out at least two weeks with a left hamstring strain, and Ivica Zubac is out tonight with an ankle sprain. Since Haliburton went down, the Pacers lost 114-109 at home to Philadelphia and 145-125 at Miami, which scored 77 points in the second half. Zubac missed both of those games as well. Indiana is 2-4 and 0-2 at home. Andrew Nembhard runs the offense now, at 17.6 points and 8.0 assists a game. Brooklyn is 0-5, the last team in the East without a win, and Mikel Brown Jr. is sitting out to rest. The Nets' two road games ended with Cleveland winning 125-121 and Boston winning 125-124 in overtime. Michael Porter Jr. makes 3.4 threes a game, seventh in the NBA, and Julius Randle scored 33 in the opener against Charlotte. That offense now meets a Pacers defense without its center, so I expect Brooklyn to stay in this game. Against a Pacers roster missing Haliburton and Zubac, I'm on Brooklyn with the points.