Andrew Nembhard

Andrew Nembhard is the kind of guard whose value never fully shows up in a box score. The Gonzaga product is Indiana's backcourt stopper, a sturdy, low-mistake point-of-attack defender who spent the 2025 Finals hounding MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander into contested, inefficient looks. On offense he's the ideal complement to Tyrese Haliburton — a secondary creator who can run the second unit, hit the timely three, and make the simple right pass without coughing it up. That two-way reliability, and a habit of rising in the biggest moments, earned him a three-year, $59 million extension that runs through 2027-28. He isn't a star and doesn't need to be; he's the connective, do-the-dirty-work guard a deep playoff team is built around, and Indiana's run to the 2025 Finals was proof of concept.