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Tyrese Haliburton on the Release of His First Ever Signature Shoe: ‘You Want Them To Look Cool, Right?’
The Pacers playmaker and postseason hero tells the exclusive story of the Hali 1, which he designed with the sneaker visionary Salehe Bembury.
By Matthew Roberson
September 15, 2025
Tyrese Haliburton on the Release of His First Ever Signature Shoe ‘You Want Them To Look Cool Right
Photographs: Sneaker courtesy of Puma, Getty Images; Collage: Gabe Conte
To say the last 14 months of Tyrese Haliburton’s life has been a whirlwind would be an enormous understatement. The All-Star point guard won a gold medal with Team USA at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, then came back to the States to begin his fifth season in the NBA. His Indiana Pacers got off to a slow start, and when the calendar flipped to 2025, they had lost more games than they’d won. An in-season turnaround for the ages followed that, with the Pacers not only making the playoffs, but upsetting the number one seed Cleveland Cavaliers. In the next round, Haliburton hit one of the zaniest shots in basketball history in a Conference Finals victory over the Knicks, and then carried Indiana to Game 7 of the NBA Finals.
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