It is not frequent a team makes an exchange while playing in the NBA finals, but the Indiana Pacers succeeded last week. As Indiana was locked in an intense battle with the Oklahoma City Thunder, the main office completed an exchange with the New Orleans pelicans who suddenly looks like a genius blow after the worst possible scenario that takes place in the series.
Tyrese Haliburton suffered an Achilles injury in the first quarter of game 7 that ended his night. The Oklahoma City Thunder defeated Indiana, 103-91, to win the NBA championship. Haliburton has not yet had a magnetic resonance, but there are many speculations that Achilles broke, an injury that would cost him the next season.
Haliburton Achilles game injury is one of the most heartbreaking injuries in the history of the League, given bets. He had such a heroic leg in the NBA playoffs by hitting clutch shots to limit miraculous returns in each series, including his game of timbres of game 1 to stun thunder in the NBA finals. The Star Guard suffered a winding tension at the beginning of the series, which was described as a probable injury of several weeks if the regular season happened. Haliburton played and played well in the victory of game 6 of season 6 of the Pacers after being included as a game decision. The bill was due devastatingly in game 7.
The Pacers have just won the same team if Haliburton is out for the whole next season. Indiana could still be quite good at an open eastern conference. Due to an exchange, the NBA finals did, now they have another option.
The Pacers again acquired their first -round draft selection of 2026 unprotected in an exchange with the New Orleans pelicans last the NBA finals. The Pacers had originally changed their choice to the Toronto Raptors as part of the Pascal Siakam trade, which later enruted New Orleans in the brand of Brandon Ingram.
The Pacers sent their number 23 selection in the NBA Draft of 2025 to the Pelicans for their selection of 2026. The Pelicans wanted another choice in this draft. The Pacers obtained complete control of their future in the process. If the Pacers decide that they want tanks at some point next year if Haliburton is out, now they have the option.
It is projected that the Pelicans will take Asa Newell in the last NBA NBA Draft NBA SB. There will be good players on the board in that range, but it is strange that the movie exchange an unprotected choice for one as not as not. 23 This year. The fact that this is a thin draft after many players returned to university basketball to see null checks only make the movie decision even more strange. Of course, the Pelicans caused the Pacers to be great next year after seeing how hard they played in the NBA finals. As the first movement for the era of Joe Dumars in New Orleans, it was a grimace.
There is absolutely any positive side for Haliburton injury. This is the worst case for a Pacers franchise that will have difficulty returning to this stage. You can never really predict how a player will recover from a tear of Achilles (that is what happened), although Haliburton is young at age 25 and, hopefully, he can do the right as possible. Let’s be clear: the Pacers could still be very good without Haliburton, the east is still terrible, and you cannot tell Indiana’s support cast at this time.
If the next season does not go the way Indiana wants, he thought, at least they have the option of pivotar. The NBA Draft of 2026 is absolutely loaded at the top, and if someone deserves a little luck, they are the Pacers after Haliburton’s injury.
Good teams won on the margins in a consistent way, and the Pacers did it again.
