The Indiana Pacers have fallen on hard times throughout the 2025-26 season thus far, and it's due in large part to the injury absence of Tyrese Haliburton . Haliburton could not have suffered a torn Achilles at a worse possible time, as he sustained that season-ending injury that typically keeps players out for an entire season in the biggest game of his career at that point — a Game 7 clash against the Oklahoma City Thunder in the 2025 NBA Finals.

But at 25 years of age, Haliburton is expected to make a full recovery. An Achilles tear is not what it once was; Kevin Durant is perhaps the biggest success story in NBA history, as Durant returned to superstar form despite missing the entirety of the 2019-20 season.

The Pacers star, of course, is not alone in his recovery nor does he

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