Pacers' Tyrese Haliburton Posts Video Shooting in Gym After Surgery on Achilles Injury
Tyrese Haliburton won't be playing in the 2025-26 season as he recovers from a torn Achilles, but the Indiana Pacers star is still getting in some work.
On Monday, Haliburton posted a shooting workout on social media, albeit a stationary one:
Haliburton suffered his injury early in Game 7 of the NBA Finals against the Oklahoma City Thunder, ultimately a 103-91 loss for the Pacers.
In July, Indiana's president of basketball operations, Kevin Pritchard, told reporters that he doesn't doubt Haliburton, "will be back better than ever" following the injury but added that he "will not play next year, though. We would not jeopardize that now. Don't get any hopes up that he will play."
It was one of several Achilles injuries late in the season, as Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum and then-Milwaukee Bucks point guard Damian Lillard—now back with the Portland Trail Blazers—suffered the same fate. Haliburton chalked that up to bad luck more than anything else, however.
"I think that there's like a notion when guys get injured or when this has happened so many times that everybody thinks that they have the answer to why this is happening," he said during an appearance on The Pat McAfee Show in July. "Everybody thinks we play too many games, we play too many minutes—all those things could be true, but I don't think that is what's causing these injuries."
Haliburton was already playing on a calf strain in the NBA Finals when his Achilles tear occurred.
"After Game 6, I'm like, 'It's done, it's gone, adrenaline is going to get to me, I'm going to be good,'" he told McAfee. "I go to Game 7, I feel nothing. I feel great going into the game. I think that's why I had a great start to the game. My body felt great. Then obviously, that happens in the end."
So the 2025-26 season won't include Haliburton on the court. But between getting up stationary shots in the gym and taking up a new hobby as a DJ, it doesn't sound as though Haliburton will be remaining idle.
