TJ McConnell showed just how willing he is to go to war for Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton amid all the criticisms Haliburton's been getting.

Tyrese Haliburton of the Pacers revealed to ESPN that he and Fever star Caitlin Clark are all in a group chat together. Haliburton’s girlfriend, Jade Jones, and Clark’s boyfriend, Connor McCaffery, are both in the chat.

It’s one of the worst takes I’ve ever heard in my life.” T.J. McConnell on Tyrese Haliburton being voted “most overrated” in an anonymous player poll.

The Indiana Pacers and Indiana Fever are joined at the hip. So are their two biggest stars: point guards Tyrese Haliburton and Caitlin Clark. That isn't changing anytime soon, if ever.

Haliburton is no one’s idea of an N.B.A. superstar. He sometimes disappears in big games. And yet, in the most high-pressure moments, he becomes a supernova. He is from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, as in Oshkosh B’Gosh overalls.

The one who went toe-to-toe with Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing and Shaquille O’Neal. The one whose posters still line the walls of local bars and barbershops. The one who, every time he comes home, receives a champion’s applause — even though he never was one.

JJ Redick blasted the Kings for trading Tyrese Haliburton in 2022, calling it “malpractice”—and two years later, his take looks spot on.