Tyrese Haliburton on NBA Draft, Mikal Bridges trade & more! | The Pat McAfee Show

Tyrese Haliburton on NBA Draft, Mikal Bridges trade & more! | The Pat McAfee Show

a man who will be entering his fifth season in the NBA next year two time Allstar two time all NBA joining Team USA at the Olympics the next face of Indiana alongside Kaylin Clark ladies and gentlemen Tyrese halberg finish your story t on tyr finish your story tyres story long uncomfortable walk to the stage I’m not trying to trip I Tri last time you learned from your mistakes that’s why you’re the man that is why you are the man good to see you good to see good clean daps around the room very clean daps good five for five on the daps I do believe those years are supposed to go up and around but whatever oh just as long as they work you tell me yeah they get see two voices here we go all right let’s not start this too early for that yeah well we appreciate you joining us uh obviously draft night was a big night for you you become a NBA player and I I assume a lot of these guys that we have no idea who they are that are about to get drafted do you NBA guys know these guys do the basketball communities know who these people are from all around the globe or what are your thoughts on this particular draft class coming in you know usually i’ I’ve been on lottery teams my whole career so usually I’m really tapped into you know who’s in the draft you know this year we are not a lottery team so I don’t really know much to be completely honest okay so I was talking to debot about this yesterday feels like basketball and this is why NBA players are the toughest to deal with AB okay this this is our show’s experience you know you’re you’re going to be not going to be here can do this can’t do I mean the NBA players you guys are uh you guys are Lamborghinis you know you guys are Ferraris you know high performance a lot that goes alongside of it you know got to keep it clean got to keep the oil got to do the entire thing but you’re a special group a very special group do you guys know who the other NBA guys are whenever you’re growing up uh like is that something that like at these a tournaments you look around you’re like yep that’s going to be an NB have you known who the NBA guys your whole life pretty much yeah that’s pretty fair you grow up with them so you see them all around the country growing up like I’m trying to think my age like Marvin Bagley he’s in the NBA NZ Reed with the Timberwolves Tyler hero we grew up playing together um I me I feel like that happens a lot more in basketball for sure through the aaou process to maybe any other sport yeah and all the camps they do all that stuff nowadays with you know Nike and all these Brands doing circuits you know you see everybody when you’re little okay so let’s talk about the big trade that was made yesterday trying to beat you guys well okay what we know here we go here we go we know who they’re trying to beat okay they’re trying to be number one and one team is number one yeah that’s fair that’s fair I can’t argue I cannot argue with that yeah I understand you cannot but I can certainly argue that a team is trying to beat the team that knocked them out of the playoffs this year the New York Knicks have made a massive trade for M Bridges from the Brooklyn Nets the Villanova Knicks are taking over uh Madison Square Garden and obviously the basketball World reacted in a massive way to this particular trade everybody said this is the one and I know that the entire New York knck Squad whether you’re at Villanova or not fans they were celebrating this is the move that puts us over the hump now obviously Nicks fans are more excited about Nicks basketball now than they have been in recent memory and this year that playoff run was magical until they ran into the big bad Indiana Pacers and that’s how it goes but whenever you guys see moves like this get made Pacers obviously Nicks you guys are same conversation right now now Celtics are in a different conversation cuz they won and they have everybody back but whenever the league sees this type of move what is your immediate thoughts and how do you feel about it I’m excited I’m excited to compete against them I’m excited to see those guys together I think what people forget you know it’s not really we’re all friends like that’s the CRA it’s the crazy part but we are ruin us don’tu it’s true that’s Josh har it’s true R his mom yeah yeah he does that he does that and Jaylen Brunson running his mom yeah lot of chat said he was going to beat up TJ mcon that’s right he said he was going to fight he said I’m going beat up TJ mcon for sure we have a group chat I have a group chat with those guys so it’s me male Josh and Jaylen so I have if if there’s ever some tampering evidence needed I’m got to come to okay so maybe maybe the Knicks need to be investigated on this entire move so you guys are all for everybody in the NBA knows each other likes each other pretty much uh I mean we all played USA together La last year at the World Cup so we became close that way uh but yeah I’m I’m excited to compete against those guys no question okay what are the Pacers doing what do I need to know about this Pacers offseason INX uh well we resigned Pascal hey that been spicy P spicy p uh we have no first round draft picks cuz we got rid of them for Pascal so spicy P or we’re watching somebody get drafted tonight that we don’t know remember we drafted Pasco SE yakum with that particular pick we’re happy he’s here in India correct correct so I don’t know if you’ll see any Pacers moves today and uh yeah we’re trying to resign some guys I know ob’s expiring so trying to get that done as well how long are you locked in for I’m uh I started a 5year contract this season yeah but that doesn’t matter for you NBA guys right it’s just like we go wherever we want to go whenever we want to go I don’t know if it necessarily works that way but I don’t want to go anywhere so I’m good yeah but Paul George is like yeah give me out of here I want to do that and Kevin Durant’s like give me out here James Harden give me out here Kyrie Irv give me out here LeBron James give me out here I don’t it is kind of how it works I think in your guys’s World especially for a player like you who is face of a franchise so that’s why we’re lucky to have you I want to let you know that I appreciate that I think it’s so funny though cuz like the NFL I feel like top guys get traded for like nothing yeah it’s really that’s true it’s really different yeah and the NFL if you’re a top guy and you want to get traded the NFL does this thing where they’re like uh you do not matter that’s kind of the The Narrative for a long time in the NBA though you guys run that I mean in the NBA the players run the league because once again you guys have known who’s going to be NBA guys since you’re teenagers so you guys literally run the league more so than the NFL where it’s 53 guys on a roster and then if there was to be a hold out or or a strike of some sort the NFL would find guys that would still play football and football people would watch the NBA your top guys and you guys know that too seemingly and I think that’s a beautiful thing business-wise yeah it’s a it’s a very player oriented League the the the top of the NBA they know what they’re doing they got a good little operation you are the top of the NBA yeah you’re Tyrese Albert team only the quarterbacks get really get away with that Watson Ryan kind of ask his way out of Atlanta after they kind of quarted Seine so uh only quarterbacks kind of get away with yeah only certain quarterbacks too like deshun Watson was considered like best in the lead whenever he was doing young certain receivers the NFL would do a quick and traed for like a fourth round pick not five first round picks yeah five could yeah hold on didn’t who was it Shams told us yes the Suns aren’t that screwed they have a first round pick in 2031 so they can move that if they have to and it’s like [Music] [Applause] [Music] NBA is

Tyrese Haliburton on NBA Draft, Mikal Bridges trade & more! | The Pat McAfee Show
Indiana Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton joins The Pat McAfee Show to discuss the 2024 NBA Draft, the New York Knicks acquiring Mikal Bridges from the Brooklyn Nets and more.
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