Indiana Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton tore his right Achilles in the first quarter of Game 7 of the NBA Finals, league sources confirmed to The Athletic. The 25-year-old is set to have surgery today in New York, according to a team source, and the injury is expected to keep him sidelined for all of next season.
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Indiana fell 103-91 to the Oklahoma City Thunder, who won the championship. Haliburton had nine points before his injury. He was playing with a strained right calf sustained in Game 5 of the NBA Finals — which causes instability to the muscles around the Achilles tendon. He fell without contact as he was attempting to dribble past Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and immediately pounded the court in agony without getting up.
Tyrese Haliburton had to be carried off the court after suffering an injury.
He had tears in his eyes as he was consoled by the Pacers’ medical staff and was quickly surrounded by his teammates.
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Haliburton just finished the first season of his five-year, $245 million contract. The Pacers can apply for a $22.2 million disabled player exception to the salary cap starting July 1.
The sting of losing Game 7 after such a close, dramatic series is only starting to set in, but the Pacers could move Andrew Nembhard from shooting guard to point guard and add Bennedict Mathurin to the starting lineup next season — which is how the team opened the second half of Game 7 without Haliburton.
“What happened with Tyrese, all of our hearts dropped,” Pacers coach Rick Carlisle said postgame. “But he will be back. I don’t have any medical information about what may or may not have happened, but he’ll be back in time, and I believe he’ll make a full recovery.”
Haliburton had one of the more exciting, dramatic postseasons in NBA history, with four shots at the buzzer that either won games or sent them into overtime where the Pacers would go on to win. His bouncing, game-tying two against the Knicks in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals, which he followed by hitting the Reggie Miller choke pose, will remain a part of Indiana (and New York) lore for a long time.
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Haliburton averaged 17.3 points and 8.6 assists in the playoffs, and 14 points and 5.9 assists in the finals.
“He authored one of the great individual playoff runs in the history of the NBA with dramatic play after dramatic play,” Carlisle said. “It was just something that no one’s ever seen and did it as 1 of 17. You know, that’s the beautiful thing about him. As great a player as he is, it’s always a team thing.
“And so, our hearts go out to him.”
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