INDIANAPOLIS -- After his first 10 days with the Pacers, Garrison Mathews had every reason to think his time with Indiana was over.

The Pacers had signed Mathews to a 10-day hardship exception contract because they needed a shooter, but Mathews barely made any shots. In five games in his first 10 days he hit just 2 of 13 field goal attempts -- all of them 3s -- and scored a total of nine points. However, the Pacers signed him to a second 10-day contract, and Mathews next 10 days were entirely different than his first. He scored a combined 34 points on 9 of 18 shooting including 7 of 15 from 3-point range in his last four games and that was enough for the Pacers to announced Thursday that they've signed Mathews to a non-guaranteed standard contract for the rest of the season. They waived f

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