Tyrese Haliburton sat down with Taylor Rooks for an exclusive interview in the B/R app to respond to Wally Szczerbiak's recent "fake wannabe All-Star" comments, why Kyrie Irving is his favorite player and more.

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0:00 – Intro
0:14 – Welcome in Tyrese
0:32 – Settle debate over moments in American history he wishes Twitter was around for
2:28 – Tyrese responds to Wally Szczerbiak
4:05 – Compartmentalizing what people say about him
6:01 – Setting a goal to be an All-Star
7:35 – Expectations with the Pacers upon arrival
8:59 – Expectations coming into the year
11:20 – Pacers-Kings trade
14: 35 – Writing down resentments and regrets
15:27 – Navigating saying what he wants to say
17:08 – Being a part of new media
18:15 – What would his podcast be about if it wasn’t about basketball?
19:25 – Putting up 0 points on his mom’s birthday
21:15 – Bouncing back from a down game
23:30 – How has overthinking impacted his life?
25:48 – How being a perfectionist can be negative
27:48 – Evaluating talent vs. heart
30:50 – Feelings about being the 12th pick in the 2020 NBA draft
34:02 – Not looking at Shams and Woj’s draft notifications
35:37 – Bennedict Mathurin’s focus
37:15 – Having to work on confidence
39:24 – How did he improve his confidence?
41:20 – Which player took the longest to realize Tyrese was playing against them?
43:50 – Getting advice from Fred VanVleet
45:08 – What did FVV see in him?
46:08 – If he wasn’t in the NBA, what would he be doing?
47:38 – What would his WWE persona be?

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