The NBA trade deadline is less than a week away, and there is more to follow than just flashy names. Let’s open up the notebook to run through three under-the-radar deadline narratives that have caught my eye with Feb. 6 approaching: Andrew Nembhard appears ripe for the picking, but don’t judge an NBA team’s books by its cover.

Just a few games into the season, the Pacers lost both backup centers to a torn Achilles. Soon after, they lost Andrew Nembhard to a knee issue that cost him close to a month. Aaron Nesmith then suffered a severe ankle sprain that cost him 35 games of the season. He just recently returned and has slowly been brought back.

Atlanta enters the matchup against Indiana after losing seven straight games. The teams square off Saturday for the first time this season.

Nembhard is in danger of missing his first game Wednesday since Dec. 27 due to a back issue. If the third-year guard cannot suit up for the Pacers against Detroit, Aaron Nesmith and Ben Sheppard stand out as the two most likely candidates to enter Indiana's starting lineup.

Nembhard (back) has been ruled out for Wednesday's game against the Pistons, Tony East of WTHR Channel 13 Indianapolis reports.

Andrew Nembhard's fingerprints were all over the Indiana Pacers' wire-to-wire victory over the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Paris Games finale on Saturday. The

Indiana Pacers guard Bennedict Mathurin "is being monitored by nearly every team seen as a buyer at the deadline," according to the Los Angeles Times'

Enter PG/SG Nickeil Alexander-Walker (4%), who had his most productive night of the season in Minnesota’s win over Phoenix. Playing 35 minutes off the bench, Alexander-Walker scored a season-high 23 points with four rebounds,

Pascal Siakam scored 37 points and Tyrese Haliburton scored 30 as the Pacers won a technical-foul filled contest over the Pistons.

Indiana guard Bennedict Mathurin is being monitored by nearly every team seen as a buyer at the deadline, according to one scouting executive. But because the Pacers are playing such good basketball, the team is expected to seek a player it values while trying to recoup the first-round pick it spent on Mathurin in a deal.

The Indiana Pacers will look for their 26th win of the season on Wednesday when they take on the Detroit Pistons fortheir first game back on U.S. soil. The Pace