{"id":548327,"date":"2026-10-08T07:55:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T05:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=548327"},"modified":"2026-10-08T07:55:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T05:55:22","slug":"tyrese-haliburton-returns-after-more-than-16-months-7-points-6-assists-in-16-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/tyrese-haliburton-returns-after-more-than-16-months-7-points-6-assists-in-16-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyrese Haliburton returns after more than 16 months: 7 points, 6 assists in 16 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tyrese Haliburton returned to action after more than 16 months in the Pacers\u2019 123-112 win over the Timberwolves. Indiana\u2019s star finished with 7 points, 6 assists, one steal and 2 blocks in 16 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s the first game, but it\u2019s got to slow down,\u201d Haliburton said afterward. \u201cThere was just a lot of adrenaline. I was hyped to be out there, excited, but I just got to slow down a little bit.\u201d He said he felt almost like a rookie, while still being able to read the floor at his usual speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was Haliburton\u2019s first NBA game in more than 400 days after tearing his right Achilles in Game 7 of the 2025 NBA Finals. His return came at Iowa State, where he played in college: \u201cJust excited to be back on the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tyrese Haliburton full highlights vs. Minnesota Timberwolves &#8211; preseason:<br><br>7 Points on 3\/8 FG (37.5%), 1\/3 from 3, 6 Assists (1 TOV), 1 Steal, 2 Blocks, and a +\/- of -12 in 16:07 minutes played<br><br>Did not play in the second half.<br><br>I also posted it on YouTube:\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QzQutkACx9\">pic.twitter.com\/QzQutkACx9<\/a><\/p>&mdash; MrBuckBuck (@MrBuckBuckNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MrBuckBuckNBA\/status\/2107990336433762804?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyrese Haliburton returned after more than 16 months, posting 7 points and 6 assists in 16 minutes in Indiana\u2019s preseason win<\/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":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-548327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"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\/548327","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=548327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548328,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548327\/revisions\/548328"}],"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=548327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548327"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=548327"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=548327"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=548327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}