Tyrese Haliburton had a front row seat for Sunday night’s WWE SummerSlam at Met Life Stadium, and he even had a role in the night’s main event between John Cena and Cody Rhodes.
The Indiana Pacers star, who will miss the 2025-26 season rehabbing an Achilles tendon tear, is a big WWE fan and has been involved in multiple events over the past few years.
He was booed heavily earlier Sunday night by New York/New Jersey’s fans when showed on the jumbotron. Haliburton enjoyed the heel moment, asking for more noise. Knicks fans still are salty over the Pacers ending the past two Knicks’ seasons.
In the opening moments of Sunday night’s street fight for the Undisputed WWE championship, Cena walked over to Haliburton and grabbed one of the Pacers guard’s crutches to beat Rhodes with.
Haliburton had been using a scooter to get around since his Achilles surgery, but was using crutches on Sunday, though not the type of crutches Cena used to hit Rhodes with. While Haliburton is among the NBA’s assists leaders, his helper on Sunday didn’t result in a win, as Rhodes defeated Cena in an epic match to win the title.
It’s been an eventful summer for Haliburton, who used a ring of a different kind to propose to long-time girlfriend Jade Jones.