Haliburton had an emotional address after surgery: ‘I would play injured again’

Haliburton In the fifth game of the NBA Finals, he suffered stretching in the Misic of the List of the Right Hurgery, but he managed to play the sixth game with that injury in which the Indiana Pacers won in front of their fans Oklahoma City Thunder And they won a decisive, seventh game that was played in Oklahoma City on Sunday to Monday after the Central European time.

In the first five minutes of that duel, Haliburton hit three threes and inserted nine of his teams of his team, but at the end of the fifth minute, he ended up on the parquet floor with a painful expression. With the help, he drove into the locker room, but could not rely on his right leg. It was later confirmed that he had suffered one of the most serious injuries, the cracking of the Achilles tendon.

Without Haliburton on the field, the Pacers were equal to the home team up to four minutes before the end of the third quarter. But Thunderi turned 20-2 broke the game and won the first NBA champion title in history.

“Man. I don’t know how to describe it otherwise except – shock. Words can’t express the pain of this disappointment. Frustration is immeasurable. All my life I’ve been doing to come to this moment – and this end up? There is no sense,” wrote Haliburton at the beginning of an emotional address to his followers with a photo from a hospital bed after being operated on Achilles tendon.

“At the age of 25, I have already learned that God never gives us more than we can handle. I know that I will come out of this as a better man and a better player. And honestly, even now, with a cracked Achilles tendon, I don’t regret it again. And again after that. To fight for this city and my brothers. For the opportunity to accomplish something special.”

He continued his address with a message for fans.

“Indy, I’m sorry. If a fan base doesn’t deserve it – it’s you. But together we’ll fight with all our strength to get back here and skip this obstacle. I don’t doubt a second that you are with me, and I hope you know that I am with you.”

In the final part of the text, he also quoted the tragically deceased basketball giant Kobeja Bryant: “There are much bigger problems and challenges in the world from the cracked Achilles tendon. Stop pity yourself, find the good in everything and work on with the same belief, the same faith and the same fervor as before.”

“And that’s completely true. I’ll do everything I can come back … just give me some time – I’ll shake off and come back as the best version of Tyrese Haliburton,” concluded a basketball player who during this year’s playoffs was even four times the scorer of the winning points in the last moments of the matches, including the one Indiana overcame Oklahoma City with 111: 110 in the first game of the big finals.

Haliburton is waiting for a long time recovery And it is quite certain that they will be forced to miss the whole next season. On the eve of the recently completed season, he signed a five -year contract with the Pacers worth more than $ 244 million.