{"id":619068,"date":"2026-02-23T03:12:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T03:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/619068\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T03:12:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T03:12:23","slug":"tyrese-haliburton-away-from-pacers-after-shingles-diagnoses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/619068\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyrese Haliburton away from Pacers after shingles diagnoses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tyrese Haliburton will have to be away from the Pacers for two to three weeks after he was diagnosed with shingles, head coach Rick Carlisle told reporters on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Haliburton has already been rehabbing from a torn Achilles that he suffered last season during Game 7 of the NBA Finals, which has kept him off the court this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will likely make a full recovery,\u201d Carlisle said before the Pacers fell to the Mavericks, 134-130. \u201cThis happened over the last few days. He was meeting us in D.C. and had some odd symptoms. It\u2019s a unique case, a unique situation. I\u2019ve talked to him a few times, and he\u2019s always in a good mood, so he\u2019ll get through it. But trying to survive at a high level without a guy like that is extremely difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38572991\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/indiana-pacers-tyrese-haliburton-looks-120596050.jpg\" alt=\"Tyrese Haliburton, wearing a brown collared shirt and glasses, smiling on the sidelines during a game.\" class=\"wp-image-38572991\"  \/>Tyrese Haliburton is pictured during the Pacers\u2019 Feb. 6 game against the Bucks. AP<\/p>\n<p>Shingles is not a life-threatening condition, but the viral infection can cause a painful rash, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/shingles\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20353054\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to the Mayo Clinic.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cShingles can occur anywhere on your body. It typically looks like a single stripe of blisters that wraps around the left side or the right side of your torso,\u201d according to the Mayo Clinic website.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Carlisle said that it was \u201ca very painful thing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The news is another blow to Haliburton and the Pacers, who have felt his absence hard during this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38573053\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0-guard-t-j-mcconnell-119255711.jpg\" alt=\"Indiana Pacers guards Tyrese Haliburton and T.J. McConnell on the bench.\" class=\"wp-image-38573053\"  \/>Tyrese Haliburton is pictured during the Pacers\u2019 Jan. 19 game. Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>After falling one win shy of an NBA championship, the Pacers have had one of their roughest seasons in recent memory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With Sunday\u2019s loss, the Pacers are 15-43 on the season and went through a franchise-worst 13-game losing streak that was snapped last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Pacers <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/12\/sports\/jazz-pacers-slammed-with-600k-in-total-fines-over-stars-participation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">were also hit with a $100,000 fine<\/a> earlier this month after the NBA docked them for sitting several players during a Feb. 3 game that \u201ccould have played under the medical standard in the Policy, including by playing reduced minutes. Alternatively, the team could have held the players out of other games in a way that would have better promoted compliance with the Policy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyrese Haliburton will have to be away from the Pacers for two to three weeks after he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,113,126,3866,6,114,66,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-619068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indiana-pacers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-indiana","10":"tag-indiana-pacers","11":"tag-indianapacers","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-pacers","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tyrese-haliburton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116117764129111115","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619068","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=619068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}