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The NBA Playoffs trip of Tyrese Haliburton reached the worst finals in game 7, and the Indiana Pacers confirmed what was expected in the 2025-26 season.
Kevin Pritchard, president of basketball operations, confirmed on Monday that Haliburton will be out of the entire NBA campaign after shaking his Achilles.
The Pacers do not want to “endanger” any additional injury to Haliburton, their all-star shipowner. Therefore, the recovery will be long to make sure it is 100% before returning to the Court.
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Indiana Pacers Guard, Tyrese Haliburton, reacts after scoring during the first half of game 7 of the basketball series of the NBA finals against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday, June 22, 2025 in Oklahoma City. (Photo AP/Julio Cortez)
“I have no doubt that he will return better than ever,” Pritchard told reporters, through Wish-TV. “… he won’t play next year. However. We would not put it in danger now.”
This is not unexpected news for Haliburton after falling into game 7 against the Oklahoma City Thunder, the possible winners of the NBA finals in a very close series of the Pacers.
Achilles’ tears generally take up to a year to recover, although some athletes have returned to their respective sports before.
The Campo de los Atlanta Falcons, Kirk Cousins, for example, returned to the field for his new team 11 months after his injury. And although he never returned to the countryside, Aaron Rodgers believed that he could have played for the New York Jets only months after his own tear in week 1 of the 2023 season.
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However, football and basketball are very different sports, and the Pacers will not risk anything with Haliburton, even if they did other finals in 2026.
Haliburton signed a maximum extent of five years with Indiana in 2023, marking it as one of his fundamental pieces to build in the coming years. That movement made a lot of meaning given what Haliburton could do for the Pacers during the regular season, and especially the postseason.
Tyrese Haliburton #0 of the Indiana Pacers celebrates during the game against the Oklahoma City Thunder during the game six of the NBA finals of 2025 on June 19, 2025 in Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE through Getty Images)
The Haliburton heroic during this year’s NBA playoffs were amazing, to say at least, since he arrived with a Clutch shot after Indiana won the Eastern Conference.
But, of course, Haliburton was not thinking of anything that would take the Pacers to game 7 of the finals after suffering his injury. He expected his team to finish the job without him, but Shai Gilgous-Alexander and Co. They won everything at the end.
“Man. I don’t know how to explain it apart from shock. Words cannot express the pain of this disappointment. Frustration is unfathomable. I have worked my whole life to reach this moment and that’s how it ends? It makes no sense,” Haliburton wrote in X more than 24 hours after the game.
“Now that I have undergone surgery, I would like to be able to count the number of times people tell me that I will” get louder. “What cliché hahaha, this, this, stinks. My foot feels like a dead weight.
Indiana Pacers guard, Tyrese Haliburton (0) reacts during the fourth quarter of game seven of the second round of the NBA playoffs of 2024 against the New York Knicks in the Madison Square Garden on May 19, 2024. (Brad Penner-USA Today Sports)
“At 25, I have already learned that God never gives us more than we can handle. I know that I will go on the other side of this better man and a better player. And honestly, at this time, torn Achilles and everything, I do not regret it. I would do it again, and again after that, to fight for this city and my brothers. For the opportunity to do something special.”
Haliburton averaged 18.6 points and 9.2 assists per game for the Pacers in 2024-25.
