Pacers' Tyrese Haliburton Gives Achilles Injury Update in New Video Amid NBA Offseason

Indiana Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton provided a positive and encouraging update on his rehab from a torn right Achilles tendon suffered in the NBA Finals in June 2025.

Haliburton relayed the news during the second episode of his "Time Out with Tyrese Haliburton" series. The episode dropped Thursday, while the actual update itself was from June, roughly a year after the injury.

"Well this is my week 52," Haliburton said in part (40-second mark).

"This is my one year. Man, I'm feeling so good. I'm playing five-on-five, doing our workouts every day. I can pretty much say I'm back at this point. I feel like I'm back in shape, but there's a difference between like being in shape and being in Tyrese Haliburton shape.

"I feel like they're two different things. I like to play fast, so I know I got to get back to there, which will take some time."

Haliburton missed the entire 2025-26 season after suffering the injury in Game 7 of the Pacers' championship series against the Oklahoma City Thunder. Thanks in part to his tremendous heroics and late-game performances, the Pacers got within one win of their first-ever NBA Finals victory.

Indiana struggled without Haliburton amid an injury-stricken year for the team at-large, going 19-63 and finishing second-last in the Eastern Conference. Thankfully, Haliburton appears well on track to return for the 2026-27 season, which begins in October.