Tyrese Haliburton’s apparent Achilles injury suffered seven minutes into Game 7 of the Oklahoma City Thunder–Indiana Pacers NBA Finals hit like a sledgehammer to the chests of all NBA fans.
It was like a bad dream, a recurring nightmare to watch Haliburton go through the same stages of pain, realization, and grief that Damian Lillard and Jayson Tatum went through before him in these NBA playoffs. It was a gut punch of the most aggressive degree and inspired a numbness that only grew as the cruelty of what just happened settled in. Of what had been taken from the fans, the Pacers and especially Haliburton himself.
