Pacers' Haliburton could miss all of 2025-26 season

Indiana Pacers superstar Tyrese Haliburton could miss nan full 2025-26 NBA play aft having room connected a torn correct Achilles tendon.

The 25-year-old fell to nan tribunal without immoderate interaction arsenic he attempted to thrust to nan handbasket 7 minutes into nan first 4th of nan decisive crippled 7 of nan NBA Championship play-off finals astatine nan Oklahoma City Thunder.

He was successful evident distress arsenic he was helped from nan tribunal and missed nan remainder of nan game, which his broadside mislaid 103-91 to extremity their hopes of a first NBA title.

The Pacers confirmed he would person room connected Monday connected nan injury, which has a apt betterment clip of 8 to 10 months.

The two-time All Star is nan 3rd high-profile subordinate to suffer a ruptured Achilles tendon successful this season's play-offs, pursuing Boston's Jayson Tatum and Milwaukee's Damian Lillard.

The wounded is akin to 1 that kept Kevin Durant retired for a afloat play erstwhile he was wounded successful nan 2019 NBA Finals while playing for nan Golden State Warriors.

Haliburton had played successful Sunday's decider contempt suffering a calf strain successful crippled 5 of nan finals.

It followed an astonishing tally wherever he deed a tying aliases winning changeable successful nan last seconds successful each 4 rounds of nan play-offs.

"I'd do it again, and again aft that, to conflict for this metropolis and my brothers," he posted connected X aft nan surgery. "For nan chance to do thing special.

"Words cannot definitive nan symptom of this letdown. The vexation is unfathomable. I've worked my full life to get to this infinitesimal and this is really it ends?"

Pacers coach Rick Carlisle paid tribute to Haliburton aft Sunday's game.

"What happened pinch Tyrese, each of our hearts dropped," he said. "But he will beryllium backmost successful time, and I judge he'll make a afloat recovery."