Basketball star Tyrese Haliburton will not be used after his Achilles tendon tear in the 2025/26 NBA season. This was confirmed by Kevin Pritchard, General Manager of the Pacers, on Monday: “We don’t want to take any risk.” The upcoming season of the North American basketball league begins in October.
Spielmacher Haliburton had suffered the serious injury without external influence in game seven of the NBA final series against the later champion Oklahoma City Thunder around Isaiah Hartenstein. “The operation went well,” said Pritchard.
He has no doubt that the Guard would “come back more”. The Pacers playmaker had played outstanding play-offs and led his team as an outsider to the final, where the title dream then burst dramatically.
Haliburton was the third NBA star, who had suffered a tear of the Achilles tendon in the course of this year’s play-offs. Previously, this had already happened from the Boston Celtics and Damian Lillard from the Milwaukee Bucks. Discussions about an excessive burden in the league had already taken up speed before Haliburton’s injury.