Tyrese Haliburton on How He and the Pacers Changed the NBA
Mind the Game
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🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
We have a very special episode of Mind the Game today with LeBron James and special guest co-host, Tyrese Haliburton of the Indiana Pacers! While Steve Nash was calling games in Europe, we reached out to Tyrese to help us with a couple episodes and the man delivered. They cover everything from how the Pacers became one of the most fast paced/random/principled offenses in the NBA, how Tyrese himself has grown his game within that offense and so much more. They also talked about Tyrese’s injury and the 2025 Pacers playoff run. Finally, LeBron and Tyrese talk share some amazing stories from the 2024 Olympics.
We’ll be back NEXT WEEK for Part 2 of this conversation so be sure to subscribe and stay tuned for that. Cheers!
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of Mind the Game. |
| 0:03.0 | We have a substitute teacher. |
| 0:05.0 | Tyrese Halliburton, man. Welcome to the show. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm excited to be a part of it, but I told him I'm only doing it if I get to ask one certain question of Braun. |
| 0:14.0 | Obviously you evolved as a player, obviously, as overrated as you are, as everyone would like to put, which is ridiculous. |
| 0:21.6 | It's so funny you bring up that in-season tournament game because if we win that game, do we ever trade for Pascal? |
| 0:27.6 | I don't know. |
| 0:28.6 | One of your greatest assets that no one wants to coach it is the jump pass. |
| 0:33.6 | I jump to make a read, but I feel like I always jump with a plan more times than not. You can't tell me that Yolkich is not all NBA. Now all of a sudden because he's missed 30 games, you kind of tell me he's not a, you know, first-team all-NBA. I think it's something that will be adjusted. I think a big reason for that is Wembe. I have a great story. I've never told this. I've never told I've never told I played this story before. |
| 0:55.0 | So we're at the Olympics. |
| 0:57.0 | I'll sit there, I'm like, oh, no. Oh my goodness. |
| 1:17.2 | Here we go. |
| 1:18.4 | Mind the game is back, season three. |
| 1:21.1 | And we have a substitute teacher host in the building today, you know, |
| 1:27.4 | taking the place of Steve Nash that's in Europe, |
| 1:30.5 | covering a bunch of NBA games and things of that nature. |
| 1:32.8 | And we can't get a hold of it, we can't find them. |
| 1:34.9 | So, you know, to our favorite New York Nick fan, you know, y'all favorite player, we decided |
| 1:42.1 | to bring on, you know, Tyrese Halliburr, man. Welcome to the show, bro. We're happy to have you host these two episodes with us, bro. How you doing, man? I'm good, man. I'm good. I'm excited to be here. Obviously, I always tune in. You and Steve talking with hoop. I'm excited to be a part of it. I wanted to bring up just, bro, how you've been playing lately. |
| 2:03.1 | It's been ridiculous to see at your big age, you know, the way you've been hooping, averaging 23, 6, and 7 this year. |
| 2:14.2 | 31 players in history have played after their 40th birthday and only 10 have played over |
| 2:20.4 | a thousand minutes, but only five have averaged over 10. That is insane. You 24, 7 and 7 since |
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