Tyrese Haliburton Rumors

Based on those charts, the best bets to reach $1 million per game first are players who will sign supermax deals after Gilgeous-Alexander, who was drafted in 2018. Among the 2019 draft class, Ja Morant is the only player to make an All-NBA team, and that was three years ago. It seems unlikely anyone in this draft class will qualify for the supermax. However, the 2020 draft class offers two top candidates for supermax qualification: Anthony Edwards and Tyrese Haliburton. It's unknown for Haliburton since he'll miss all of next season due to an untimely Achilles tear. But Edwards has made two All-NBA second teams in a row, putting him on track to sign a supermax in the summer of 2027, which could be worth up to four years and $345 million and rise above $82 million in the second season.

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Jay King: Brad Stevens said the Celtics front office spoke to the Pacers after Tyrese Haliburton’s injury and asked if there was anything they could do to help, after going through a similar situation with Jayson Tatum weeks earlier.

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Steve Nash: He's just in general a brilliant simple early passer. Comes off pick and roll, if he sees someone, he just throws it and that guy's leaning the wrong way and now that guy's got a show and go or, dribble handoff over the corner, it gives him an advantage at all times instead of being like bogged down. So, I'm impressed. Kevin Durant: All his movements just seem efficient. He doesn't turn the ball over. He doesn't shoot bad shots. I think he could be more aggressive too to score the ball sometimes.

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Tony East: Kevin Pritchard confirms Tyrese Haliburton will not play next season.

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Tyrese Haliburton is in attendance for tonight's Fever-Sparks matchup 🔥

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Tom Lewis: Tyrese Haliburton booted up while supporting Summer Pacers.

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Kentavious Caldwell-Pope: "But we’re talking about superstars. We’re talking about guys who get teams involved, elevate players, and when my team needs a win — they go get it. I can’t do that with Donovan Mitchell. And I’m 50/50 on Haliburton. He might average 25 and 8, but he’s not consistent. He’s clutch now, sure, but not consistent enough throughout the game. I need someone who shoots consistently, makes plays all game long. He’s getting there — but he’s not quite there yet."

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Once Tyrese Haliburton went down, however, Indy became vulnerable. “It changed everything,” one league source said Tuesday. Until that moment, ownership was willing to pay luxury tax for the first time in 20 years.

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But Indiana was already facing the likelihood next season of playing without Haliburton, who tore his Achilles about seven minutes into Game 7 of the finals, and decided it didn’t want to “overpay” for Turner now, a team source said. The Pacers had signaled a willingness to pay the luxury tax as the offseason neared, but clearly changed that stance in the wake of Haliburton’s injury.

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Shams Charania: Myles Turner, the longest tenured Pacer, made it known he wished to remain in Indiana. Since the Game 7 exit, Turner’s reps pushed to get a deal done. Ultimately, Indiana’s aversion to the tax, which grew after Tyrese Haliburton’s injury, allowed Bucks to get the new franchise center.

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Wilkins wasn’t surprised because he knows an athlete’s body can take only so much before being pushed to its ultimate on-court limit. “It’s just a freak accident. It’s something unexplainable,” Wilkins told The Athletic after watching Haliburton’s injury. “Usually, when a guy tears his Achilles, there’s already some nagging pain that you don’t think about beyond wear and tear. You don’t think it’s something that’s going to blow on you. I sympathize with him because the way he went down, it looked like he completely tore it.”

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With next season now a wash, the Pacers are still deciding how to handle their financial future, according to league sources. Do they keep everyone together and pay the tax in 2025-26? Or do they make a cost-cutting move or two with Haliburton sidelined and with a squad whose success is capped next season? The Pacers have 10 players under contract for 2025-26. Their salaries alone carry them only $20 million short of the luxury tax line. Those 10 do not include longtime starting center Myles Turner, who hits free agency June 30. Even if he were to re-sign even for a contract well below market value (say, $18 million a year, which is slightly less than he makes now and isn’t realistic), his new salary would send Indiana into the tax.

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"We had already convened a panel of experts before Tyrese's most recent Achilles rupture," Adam Silver said on the telecast. "We had seven this year. We had zero last year under the exact same circumstances. The most we've ever had in a season is four."

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The NBA had already convened a panel of experts to study Achilles tendon injuries even before Indiana star Tyrese Haliburton ruptured his in Game 7 of the NBA Finals, Commissioner Adam Silver said Wednesday night. The league had seven known Achilles injuries this season - Pacers forwards James Wiseman and Isaiah Jackson, New Orleans guard Dejounte Murray and Miami guard Dru Smith had them in the regular season, and Boston's Jayson Tatum, Milwaukee's Damian Lillard and Haliburton were hurt in the playoffs. Silver, speaking to ESPN as part of its NBA draft coverage, said there weren't any in the NBA in the previous season. "We had already convened a panel of experts before Tyrese's most recent Achilles rupture," Silver said on the telecast. "We had seven this year. We had zero last year under the exact same circumstances. The most we've ever had in a season is four."

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