{"id":142506,"date":"2025-07-02T20:33:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/142506\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T20:33:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:33:14","slug":"sports-illustrated-tyrese-haliburton-was-so-excited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/142506\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Illustrated &#8211; Tyrese Haliburton Was So Excited\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1751488394_860_01jz63ya76xd17r19crk.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"\/>Indiana Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton at an Indiana Fever-New York Liberty game on May 24, 2025. | Grace Smith-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>Tyrese Haliburton and his Indiana Pacers may not have been able to bring home the W in last month&#8217;s NBA Finals, but the point guard still had plenty of excitement left to share with the Indiana Fever, his team&#8217;s WNBA counterpart and Commissioner&#8217;s Cup champions.<\/p>\n<p>After the Caitlin Clark-less Fever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wnba\/caitlin-clark-had-celebratory-message-for-fever-teammates-after-commissioner-s-cup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">defeated the Minnesota Lynx 74-59<\/a> in Tuesday&#8217;s Cup finals, Haliburton posted a short-but-sweet message to the team on social media:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;LFG,&#8221; he wrote in the missive, accompanied by a &#8220;trophy&#8221; emoji.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">LFG <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IndianaFever?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@IndianaFever<\/a>\ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tyrese Haliburton (@TyHaliburton22) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TyHaliburton22\/status\/1940229861223931990?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">July 2, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hali is currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/pacers-rick-carlisle-details-uplifting-post-surgery-conversation-tyrese-haliburton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">nursing a torn Achilles tendon, <\/a>which he ruptured early in Game 7 of the Pacers&#8217; Finals showdown vs. the Oklahoma City Thunder. It was a crushing moment for all NBA fans, but an even bigger blow to the city of Indianapolis, which has been waiting patiently for its first NBA title.<\/p>\n<p>The Fever, however, stepped in and answered the call with Tuesday&#8217;s win, their first for the relatively new in-season tournament. Outside of that, the Fever last won a WNBA championship in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacers and Fever\u2014and specifically CC and Haliburton\u2014have very vocally supported one another in the past, so Hali&#8217;s congratulatory post does not come as a surprise. For instance, Clark <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/caitlin-clark-tyrese-haliburton-injury-reaction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">shared a message for Haliburton on Instagram<\/a> after his Finals injury, and Haliburton and head coach Rick Carlisle were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wnba\/tyrese-haliburton-showed-up-for-caitlin-clark-fever-a-day-after-pacers-game-2-win\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">spotted at a Fever-New York Liberty game<\/a> back in May. <\/p>\n<p>These Indiana teams roll deep.<\/p>\n<p>More WNBA on Sports Illustrated<\/p>\n<p>This article was originally published on www.si.com as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wnba\/tyrese-haliburton-excited-indiana-fever-commissioners-cup-victory?utm_source=RSS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tyrese Haliburton Was So Excited for Indiana Fever After Commissioner&#8217;s Cup Victory<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton at an Indiana Fever-New York Liberty game on May 24, 2025. | Grace&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,4500,6807,6811,113,126,3866,6805,6,67,6808,6806,6809,114,6810,447],"class_list":{"0":"post-142506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indiana-pacers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-daily-news","11":"tag-global-news","12":"tag-indiana","13":"tag-indiana-pacers","14":"tag-indianapacers","15":"tag-inkl","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-news-app","19":"tag-news-headlines","20":"tag-news-today","21":"tag-pacers","22":"tag-today-news","23":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114785550835495327","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}