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Indiana Pacers
Aug 24, 2025 1:17 PM EDT
As Tyrese Haliburtin stares down a long road of recovery after tearing his Achilles tendon in Game 7 of the NBA Finals, another injured Indiana athlete has been recovering along his side.
Haliburton will miss all of the Indiana Pacers’ next season, and Caitlin Clark has missed the last 14 Indiana Fever games with various muscle injuries.
Clark and Haliburton are easily the faces of their respective teams, and Clark is the face of the entire WNBA, and the two have been leaning on each other during their recoveries.
”It sucks that she’s been hurt for as long as she has,” Haliburton told The Indianapolis Star’s Joshua Heron. “But just for us to be able to communicate even in our recovery, we lift at the same time, so it’s just us two in the weight room. We spend a lot of time together. It’s good to have each other to lean on in a time like right now.”
Clark and Haliburton have had a close friendship ever since the Fever picked Clark out of Iowa with the first overall pick in the 2024 WNBA Draft. Clark entered the season as one of the favorites to win MVP, and had the Pacers not lost Haliburton and Myles Turner this summer, both Indianapolis basketball teams would likely be in the running to win the championships.
However, injuries have sidelined both of them, at least for now, but the state is operating under the assumption that both stars will eventually return.
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