{"id":706383,"date":"2026-04-09T05:12:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/706383\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T05:12:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:12:43","slug":"pacers-tyrese-haliburton-hits-milestone-in-achilles-injury-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/706383\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers’ Tyrese Haliburton hits milestone in Achilles injury recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tyrese Haliburton took another big step in his recovery on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a post on X<\/a>, the Pacers star announced that he had moved onto 5-on-5 work.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cPlayed 5 on 5 today for first time since June,\u201d he wrote on the social media platform along with the praying hands emoji.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"TyreseTyrese Haliburton practices before the Pacers\u2019 loss to the Cavaliers at Rocket Arena on April 5, 2026, in Cleveland. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Haliburton, 26, has been recovering from a ruptured Achilles that he suffered during Game 7 of the NBA Finals<\/a> last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While he has been rehabbing, the two-time All-Star has been at Pacers games to help cheer on his team, and away from the court, he\u2019s thrown himself into some different hobbies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to The Athletic<\/a>, Haliburton has been learning to DJ, working on a sneaker line with Puma and livestreaming with his brother.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The news on Wednesday had fans excited to see the NBA star inching closer to a return.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ll back more [strong] than before Hali,\u201d one fan wrote<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n

\u201cLETS GOOOOOOOOO,\u201d another person chimed in<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe comeback ab to be something special,\u201d a third wrote on the platform<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Even ESPN sports talk host Pat McAfee responded with an excited post on social media after Haliburton posted about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Things have been tough for Indiana with Haliburton out for this season, going from one of the best teams in the NBA to one of the worst.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Pacers have an 18-61 record this season, the second-worst in the NBA, as they fight for lottery positioning a year after they went to the Finals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Indiana is likely to have its lowest win percentage ever this season; right now it stands at .228.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Haliburton was diagnosed with shingles<\/a> in late February and had to be away from the team for several weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"TyreseTyrese Haliburton reacts after suffering a ruptured Achilles during the Pacers\u2019 Game 7 loss to the Thunder in the NBA Finals on June 22, 2025. Xinhua News Agency via Getty Ima<\/p>\n

He did return to the Pacers bench on March 25.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Pacers are down to their final three games of the season with a trip to Brooklyn on Thursday before playing at home against the 76ers on Friday and the Pistons on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyrese Haliburton took another big step in his recovery on Wednesday.\u00a0 In a post on X, the Pacers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,113,126,3866,6,114,66,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-706383","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\/116373040132345431","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706383","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=706383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}