Tyrese Haliburton will be away from the Pacers for two to three weeks after he was diagnosed with shingles, head coach Rick Carlisle told reporters on Sunday.
Haliburton is already rehabbing a torn Achilles tendon he suffered in Game 7 of the NBA Finals last season, which kept him from playing on the court this year.
“He’ll probably make a full recovery,” Carlisle said before the Pacers fell to the Mavericks, 134-130. “This happened in the last few days. He met us in DC and had some strange symptoms. It’s a unique case, a unique situation. I’ve talked to him a few times and he’s always in a good mood, so he’ll get through it. But trying to survive at a high level without a guy like that is extremely difficult.”
Shingles is not a life-threatening condition, but the viral infection can cause a painful rash, according to the Mayo Clinic.
“Shingles can occur anywhere on your body. It usually looks like a single stripe of blisters that wraps around the left or right side of your torso,” according to the Mayo Clinic website.
Carlisle said it was “a very painful thing.”
The news is another blow to Haliburton and the Pacers, who have felt his absence hard this season.
After falling one win short of an NBA championship, the Pacers have had one of their toughest seasons in recent memory.
With Sunday’s loss, the Pacers are 15-43 on the season and were on a franchise-worst 13-game losing streak, which was snapped last month.
The Pacers were also fined $100,000 earlier this month after the NBA cited them for allowing several players to play during a Feb. 3 game who “could have played below the policy’s medical standard, including by playing fewer minutes. Alternatively, the team could have kept the players out of other games in a manner that would have better promoted compliance with the policy.”
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