{"id":874797,"date":"2026-10-08T05:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T05:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/874797\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T05:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T05:40:12","slug":"pacers-beat-timberwolves-in-haliburtons-hilton-homecoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/874797\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers beat Timberwolves in Haliburton&#8217;s Hilton Homecoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haliburton notched seven points and six assists at Hilton Coliseum in his first game since missing last season with injury.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcci.com\/news-team\/1e2825c1-7157-4b04-aae2-a82efa6d35ed\" aria-label=\"Cullen Holt profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1e2825c1-7157-4b04-aae2-a82efa6d35ed_1774635729.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Cullen Holt\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>AMES, Iowa \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Tyrese Haliburton was welcomed back to Hilton Coliseum with a thunderous roar from the Iowa State student section. In the first NBA preseason game at Iowa State&#8217;s basketball arena since 2018, Haliburton&#8217;s Pacers defeated the Minnesota Timberwolves 123-112 Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The crowd of nearly 14,000 got treated early with a three-pointer by Timberwolves superstar Anthony Edwards to open the game and a pull-up jumper by Haliburton on the ensuing Pacers&#8217; possession.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Haliburton played 16 minutes with seven points, six assists and two blocks. He sat out in the second half. It was Haliburton&#8217;s first game action since getting injured in game seven of the NBA Finals in June of 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Watch the video above for a full recap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Haliburton notched seven points and six assists at Hilton Coliseum in his first game since missing last season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[368224,368225,5460,119492,368220,3441,82541,368222,108859,11951,38913,355,5489,368219,13544,105608,368223,99,368221,368226,20629],"class_list":["post-874797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball-arena","tag-first-nba-preseason-game","tag-game","tag-haliburton","tag-hilton-homecoming","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-iowa-state","tag-iowa-state-student-section","tag-kcci","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-minute","tag-nba","tag-nba-finals","tag-pacer","tag-point","tag-possession","tag-pull-up-jumper","tag-sports","tag-timberwolve","tag-timberwolves-superstar-anthony-edwards","tag-tyrese-haliburton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}