Tyrese Haliburton Tears his Achilles in Game Seven

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00:00I knew right away that wasn't his calf.

00:03When I saw that thing snap, his foot snapped.

00:06And I knew he had tore it completely.

00:10And my question is, when it happened, I wasn't listening.

00:15I was just reacting to it.

00:16I said to my son, I said, that's a tear.

00:18He's done.

00:19And he was pounding the floor.

00:21And I was just like you, I think.

00:23At that point, I thought, you know, literally at that point, I said, this game's over.

00:28Done.

00:29Yes.

00:30Yeah.

00:30That was terrible.

00:32It was terrible because you saw the way he started the game.

00:35Right?

00:36You saw the way he was hitting three-pointers.

00:39You thought, and I thought going into this game, if it's a close game, and it could be

00:44a close game because they've already won game one there.

00:46He stole that game for him with that shot at point three.

00:49So they were in Oklahoma City.

00:51They've got the confidence.

00:52One thing Richard Jefferson did say that was pretty interesting, and I agree.

00:55You don't have carryovers in games except for you could have carryover in terms of your

01:01team's confidence from game six to game seven.

01:04And that's absolutely true.

01:06I think teams, I think they went in there totally confident.

01:09Okay?

01:09But the problem is, well, then you say, okay, if it's close late, who do you trust more?

01:17I trust him more than SGA.

01:20Why?

01:21Because what he has done in this playoff season has been outwardly.

01:27He's been the best player in the playoffs.

01:30And so here's what happens.

01:32Have you ever seen in the game seven of an NBA finals, and I've been watching these games

01:37since the 60s, you've ever seen in game seven where a finals MVP gets knocked out in the

01:43first quarter and is done?

01:44I don't think it's ever happened before.

01:46I think that was a historic injury that obviously took its toll after halftime because they were

01:52up one, and you just knew the inevitable was coming.

01:55They were never going to win without him.

01:57And what happened in the second half to their offense?

02:00They scored 13 baskets, and they turned the ball over 14 times.

02:06And the starters had 15 points combined.

02:10Their offense was done in by losing him.

02:16He could have been the finals MVP.

02:18And the Oklahoma City defense, which people have been raving about all year, is this great

02:23historical defense.

02:24I do not put them on the level of the 96 Bulls.

02:27We've talked about that.

02:28I think there have been other teams that play greater defense, but they have the numbers

02:32to back them up, find them to have that.

02:33They raised their level to the point where T.J.

02:37McConnell and all these guys could hardly even dribble.

02:40It looked like Jeremy Lin and Miami Heat, if you remember that game, where they couldn't

02:44even dribble the ball up the court.

02:49Okay?

02:50So you're right.

02:51When he got hurt, and they didn't say a lot about the injury, but Lisa Salter of ABC, the

02:58sideline reporter, confirmed it with John, John Halliburton, the guy who used to get

03:02in Giannis' face.

03:04The father confirmed he had the torn Achilles.

03:06Where ABC missed the boat was at halftime, you got Bob Myers sitting there, who had Kevin

03:11Durant back in the day, similarly injured.

03:14It was a game five, not a game seven, if I'm correct.

03:17And so he could have talked about the whole deal with Durant, with blowing out the Achilles.

03:23And I don't even think they talked to him about that.

03:25That was a bad job, if I remember correctly.

03:28So yeah, it was just one of the biggest letdowns to a game seven you'll ever see, because when

03:34he went out, that killed off the Pacers.

03:37And now they're left with the big, what if?

03:40What if he had played?

03:42Because he could have brought him home, and it would have been a historic championship.

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