Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton to miss time with left hamstring strain

Indiana Pacers All-Star point guard Tyrese Haliburton has suffered a mild left hamstring strain and will miss at least two weeks recovering, head coach Rick Carlisle said on Wednesday afternoon.

Haliburton is being considered week-to-week, though an update isn’t expected for at least two weeks. A clearer timeline for his return is not yet known.

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Haliburton has had issues with that left hamstring before. He strained it while slipping on a drive to the basket during a game against the Boston Celtics in January of 2024, costing him 10 games; he’d manage that injury for the rest of the regular season, before re-aggravating it during the Eastern Conference finals against Boston four months later. The following season, he left a January contest against the Cleveland Cavaliers early with left hamstring tightness, and missed the Pacers’ following game, too.

The 26-year-old point guard missed all of the 2025-26 regular season after rupturing his right Achilles tendon during Game 7 of the 2025 NBA Finals. He played in the Pacers’ first four games of the 2026-27 campaign, and is averaging 21.8 points, 9.5 assists and 4.5 rebounds in 33 minutes per game, shooting 51.6% from the field, 37% from 3-point range and 86.7% from the free-throw line.

After an emotional return to the lineup in a win over the New Orleans Pelicans, Haliburton appeared to be fully back in the fold for a Pacers team that had looked all but bereft without him last season. He put up 20-and-10 double-doubles in two of his first three games back, leading Indiana to wins in New Orleans and Brooklyn.

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Haliburton pressed to play in the second half of Indiana’s first back-to-back set of the season, when the Pacers traveled to his native Wisconsin to take on the rival Milwaukee Bucks. He logged a season-high 35 minutes in the Pacers’ 110-102 loss; he was seen wearing a heating pad on his left hamstring while seated on the Indiana bench.

After the back-to-back, Haliburton had been listed as questionable for the Pacers’ Wednesday game against the Philadelphia 76ers with left hamstring tightness/soreness — one of eight Indiana players on the…

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Author : Dan Devine

Publish date : 2026-10-28 17:43:00

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