{"id":492774,"date":"2026-04-14T07:58:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T05:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=492774"},"modified":"2026-04-14T07:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T05:58:21","slug":"tyrese-haliburton-opens-up-on-shingles-battle-this-has-sucked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/tyrese-haliburton-opens-up-on-shingles-battle-this-has-sucked\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyrese Haliburton opens up on shingles battle: \u201cThis has sucked\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1792\" data-end=\"2165\">Tyrese Haliburton has opened up about his battle with shingles, revealing how the disease affected his face and slowed part of his recovery process. The <strong data-start=\"1945\" data-end=\"1963\">Indiana Pacers<\/strong> guard, who has missed the entire 2025-26 season while rehabbing a torn right Achilles, said there was a point when he could not even appear on camera because one eye was almost completely swollen shut.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2167\" data-end=\"2488\">Haliburton said he lost part of an eyebrow, has continued to deal with swelling and itching, and is still going through more bad days than good ones. The 26-year-old also explained that he received a Botox injection, changed medications several times, and experienced weight gain as a side effect of his latest treatment.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2490\" data-end=\"2766\">Despite the setback, Haliburton recently resumed five-on-five scrimmages and said he no longer thinks about the leg injury itself. He also shared a strong message after living through the illness firsthand, urging people over 50 to get the shingles vaccine: \u201cThis has sucked\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indiana Pacers star said he is still dealing with the aftereffects of shingles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":376182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-492774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/03\/Indiana-Pacers.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492774"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=492774"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=492774"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=492774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}