{"id":15965,"date":"2025-07-22T17:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/15965\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T17:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:40:08","slug":"tyrese-haliburton-shares-which-nba-star-visited-him-in-person-during-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/15965\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyrese Haliburton Shares Which NBA Star Visited Him in Person During Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_fuoz4encu\">Kevin Durant has <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/kevin-durant-funny-line-about-helping-jayson-tatum-damian-lillard-with-injuries\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deemed himself the &#8220;Achilles guy&#8221;<\/a> as he&#8217;s become a lifeline for NBA players who tear their Achilles like Durant did in 2019. This year, it&#8217;s Tyrese Haliburton and Jayson Tatum he&#8217;s been advising through their recovery journeys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_5ts6ubq8p\">Haliburton, who <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/tyrese-haliburton-tore-his-achilles-game-7-nba-finals-injury-update\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tore his Achilles during Game 7 of the NBA Finals<\/a> in which his Indiana Pacers lost to the Oklahoma City Thunder, shared on Tuesday&#8217;s Pat McAfee Show that Durant actually visited him at his house this past weekend to show support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_zdvbz98tq\">&#8220;KD actually came and visited me at my house the other day, came to my house, which was pretty cool. We sat down for a while and just talked,&#8221; Haliburton shared.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;KD actually came and visited me at my house the other day and we just hung out..<\/p>\n<p>We just talked and it was pretty cool..<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m gonna felt like hell to get back and hopefully have the opportunity to win a championship again&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TyHaliburton22?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@TyHaliburton22<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PMSLive?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#PMSLive<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yMcOkHKG94\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/yMcOkHKG94<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatMcAfeeShow\/status\/1947694705891807572?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 22, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_mafgmbjul\">This was a sweet move from Durant to give a helping hand and a listening ear to Haliburton while he deals with one of the toughest experiences of his NBA career. Haliburton is expected to miss the 2025-26 season, which he shared has been tough mentally for him. Having someone like Durant in his corner surely helps.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA on Sports Illustrated<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant has deemed himself the &#8220;Achilles guy&#8221; as he&#8217;s become a lifeline for NBA players who tear&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-15965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}