OKC and Pacers react to Haliburton's Game 7 injury heartbreak

The Pacers' Tyrese Haliburton had his Game 7 cut short after suffering a brutal Achilles injury against OKC

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00:00My heart dropped for him.

00:01Like, I couldn't imagine playing the biggest game of my life

00:04and something like that happening.

00:05It's so unfortunate. It's not fair.

00:07What happened with Tyrese is just all of our hearts dropped.

00:30He did some incredible things, like this whole playoff run and this year.

00:36And, yeah, I'm just super proud of him.

00:40Obviously, you know, it hurts.

00:41It hurts because we couldn't get it done, you know,

00:45and I wanted it so bad for him and just because I know that, you know,

00:50he gave us everything.

00:51I want to say I hope Tyrese is okay.

00:53I haven't, like, looked at my phone or anything to, like, see what the thing is.

00:57Obviously, that changes the outcome of the game a little bit

00:59or just changes, like, the dynamic of the game.

01:00It was a tough, tough feeling to see your franchise guy go down like that.

01:08But to have to move on and kind of compartmentalize it is tough.

01:12Such respect for the way they play, the way they're coached.

01:17Prayers to Halliburton, obviously, that was incredibly unfortunate.

01:21He authored one of the great individual playoff runs

01:28in the history of the NBA with dramatic play after dramatic play.

01:34It was just something that no one's ever seen.

01:37I just felt so bad for him.

01:39They just asked if he was okay.

01:41Obviously, he wasn't.

01:42But prayers go out to him for sure.

01:43I love a player.

01:45Future's bright.

01:46That team's going to be really good for a long time.

01:48Yeah, impressive team, impressive player.

01:51Wishing the best of luck.