Doubt Tyrese Haliburton at your peril.
The Cavaliers killer is now a Knicks killer, and the most ‘overrated’ player in the NBA has again made that term laughable.
Tyrese Haliburton has become the face of the NBA playoffsGettyOnly one athlete in The Association has knocked out No. 1 seed Cleveland and silenced Madison Square Garden in the same postseason.
The same athlete who was recently declared the most ‘overrated’ player in the NBA in an absurd anonymous poll that didn’t have the guts to put real names to paper.
“First of all, Tyrese Haliburton is not an overrated player,” Shaquille O’Neal said on Inside the NBA.
“He’s a great player. He plays the right way.
“All the kids out there – the ones that can’t jump high and don’t have the Steph Curry form – watch him (Haliburton) and steal all that he does.”
The 25-year-old Haliburton endured echoing ‘overrated’ chants in Cleveland, then ended Donovan Mitchell’s season by handing the Indiana Pacers a 4-1 triumph in the conference semifinals.
“Face of the league,” a fan tweeted.
On Wednesday, Haliburton paid homage to Reggie Miller with a massive basket inside MSG, then guided the Pacers to a tough 138-105 overtime win over the New York Knicks in Game 1.
“Give them a lot of credit,” New York guard Jalen Brunson said.
“They closed the game out like they’ve been doing all playoffs. Just not really good on our part.”
GettyHe’s embraced big moments and big shots[/caption] GettyHaliburton was embraced by his Pacers teammates[/caption] GettyHe owned Madison Square Garden in Game 1[/caption]“Overrate THAT,” Haliburton recently tweeted, while Indiana bullied Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks with a 4-1 first-round series knockout.
He keeps talking trash, then backing it up by hitting huge shots that no one else in the NBA is making.
“I didn’t know we had beef,” said Haliburton, referring to all the Cavs fans chanting ‘overrated’ at him.
“Good for them. That came out of nowhere. … Now that that label’s there, it’s going to be every time (I) play them.”
The No. 12 overall pick of the 2020 NBA Draft reminded depressed Cleveland believers and the Sacramento Kings – Haliburton’s original team – about the perils of getting it wrong in pro sports.
“For me, I just control what I can, man,” Haliburton said.
“And, yeah, overrate that.”
Haliburton, the new face of the Pacers, has continually learned from his past falls and kept moving forward.
“We spent like a month, 40 days together, and I left with nothing,” said Haliburton, referring to a highly disappointing run for the United States men’s national basketball team that ended with fourth place at the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup.
He answered that pain by winning gold in the 2024 Summer Olympics, has already beaten Antetokounmpo and Mitchell in the playoffs, and was the clutch king of Madison Square Garden in Game 1.
“We don’t give up and we’re battle tested,” Haliburton said. “We just find a way.”
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