The Indiana Pacers are expected to miss Tyrese Haliburton’s services for the entirety of the 2025-26 season, as he continues to recover from his brutal Achilles injury that he sustained in the NBA Finals a few months ago.
While recovering from the injury, the Indiana Pacers star recently provided an encouraging update on his progress to various reporters.
“I’m walking now in my boot,” Haliburton said via Tony East on X (formerly known as Twitter). “Getting closer to walking full time in my shoe. So that’s exciting for me. It’s kind of like a new benchmark, a new achievement for me… Just being able to walk; it’s like the small wins right now. Just taking it a day at a time. I have good days, bad days.”
“Yeah, things are going well… Same treatment, same stuff every day. But falling in love with the grind of that. Just trying to get as well as I can as fast as I can,” he added.
Indiana Pacers expected to cut one of their centers before the start of 2025-26, claims insider
The Indiana Pacers lost Myles Turner to free agency this summer, so they traded for Jay Huff from the Memphis Grizzlies and re-signed James Wiseman and Isaiah Jackson to new contracts. However, ClutchPoints’ Brett Siegel believes the team could cut one of its centers.
“Although the Pacers have a full 15-man roster at this moment, it is expected that they won’t keep both James Wiseman and Tony Bradley entering the 2025-26 season. Both players have nonguaranteed contracts and can be leveraged if Indiana looks to make a roster upgrade,” Siegel reported.
“(Malik) Beasley would be the type of player such a move would be executed for, and the Pacers have a $14.1 million disabled-player exception that can be used as a result of Tyrese Haliburton’s Achilles injury,” he added.
