Tyrese Haliburtontitular base and soul of the Indiana Pacersthis morning suffered a hard injury during the First quarter of the seventh and definitive party of the NBA finals in front of the Oklahoma City Thunder. The lack of 4:55 For the end of the first quarterthe player fell to the ground without contact and was unable to continue.
A fall that silenced the Paycom Center
The play was as short as shocking: Haliburton had the ball in his handsin the face of the defense of Shai Gilgeous-Alxander, when suffered sudden failure on the right leg. Immediately fell to the ground, began to hit the parquet already cryvisibly affected by pain.
The Pacers coach, Rick Carlisle asked for an immediate dead timeand all Indiana players surrounded their partner, who still did not move. He Paycom Centerone of the ligid courts in the league, It was completely silent For several seconds. Players of both Pacers and the Thunder approached the young base to see how he was.
The moment in which Shai about Haliburton to give him support / NBA
A few minutes later, Haliburton left the track helped by the medical bodywith one headline that covered his face. He couldn't support the right foot at any time While it was retired to changing rooms, which increased general concern for the seriousness of the injury.
According to the franchise shortly after, Haliburton would not play the rest of the night again for an injury in the “Lower part of the right leg“.
Much concern in Indiana
Later and during the party, Tyrese Haliburton's own father, John Haliburton, confirmed the worst omen about his son's injury: everything aimed to be a breakage of the Achilles tendon. An injury that has already been experienced twice this season such as cases of Jayson Tatum and Damian Lillard. Casualities of life, these two players carry the dorsal 0, the same as Haliburton.
The concern in Indiana is maximum. We speak that if the case that the injury is of this gravity, the Pacers They could lose their star for the next season. A sake for a franchise that has made a spectacular season end and that if its reference player had not been injured, who knows if they had taken with them the title of NBA champions.
