Jalen Brunson and Tyrese Haliburton went to battle on the hardwood throughout the New York Knicks vs. Indiana Pacers second-round playoff sequence this previous season, but it surely’s potential we may finally see them on a distinct battleground: a WWE ring.
Brunson and Haliburton, each All-NBA gamers, probably have some years left of their NBA careers, however Brunson isn’t shutting down the opportunity of wrestling towards Haliburton in WWE.
“I’m by no means going to say by no means,” Brunson stated throughout Fanatics Fest NYC. “Possibly we will communicate it into existence.”
Might Jalen Brunson vs. Tyrese Haliburton occur in WWE?
Brunson and Haliburton have already appeared on WWE programming, because the pair of NBA gamers received concerned throughout a Logan Paul vs. LA Knight vs. Santos Escobar triple risk match on ‘Smackdown’ in June. The occasion passed off at Madison Sq. Backyard, the house enviornment of Brunson’s Knicks, and throughout the match, Haliburton (sporting a ‘Tyrese 3:17 shirt’) tried to return to the help of Paul with a pair of brass knuckles however was distracted by Brunson, who jumped over the barricade.
After the match, Haliburton and Paul appeared able to assault Knight, though Brunson entered the ring with a metal chair, which finally precipitated Paul and Haliburton to flee.
Whereas the WWE-NBA crossover labored out properly, it did trigger some panic amongst Knicks followers, as throughout Brunson’s temporary in-ring look, he winced and checked out his left hand, which he had damaged throughout the playoffs and lately had surgical procedure on to restore. The seemingly random act appeared to point a reaggravation of his damage, however Brunson stated after the truth that he was improvising.
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“I did freestyle a bit bit, and the half I freestyled, everybody freaked out over,” Brunson stated on the ‘Roommates’ podcast. “My sisters sends me this screenshot… of a tweet of an individual screenshotting the video and my hand being bent and so it was similar to a damaged coronary heart, prefer it was a bunch of damaged hearts. Everybody was like, ‘Simply keep house! Cease enjoying round, wrap him in bubble wrap!’”
Whereas it looks as if Brunson is OK, it certainly won’t assist any potential case for a WWE match — as an energetic NBA participant, anyway. Though Dennis Rodman and Karl Malone famously wrestled in WCW within the Nineties to capitalize on their fame and the Chicago Bulls vs. Utah Jazz rivalry, the Knicks and Pacers very understandably will probably not permit that to occur with Brunson and Haliburton.
NBA contracts have clauses that state what actions gamers can’t do, {and professional} wrestling is sort of assuredly one in all them. In any case, Brunson and Haliburton, each of whom make far more than Malone and Rodman did (the pair of present gamers will every make $180 million or extra over the subsequent 5 years) and thus don’t must wrestle to make some huge cash.
