10 Things Indiana Pacers' Tyrese Haliburton Can’t Live Without
Team USA basketball player Tyrese Haliburton joins GQ Sports to reveal his 10 Essentials. The Indiana Pacers point guard breaks down his daily essentials: from his jewelry box (including the iconic Cartier Crash watch) to his on-the-go gaming setup (“there’s real smoke on that game”). Watch the full episode of GQ Sports’ 10 Essentials, as NBA star Tyrese Haliburton reveals 10 things he can’t live without.
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00:00What up y'all, it's Tyrus Halliburton here,
00:02point guard of the Indiana Pacers,
00:03and these are 10 things I can't live without.
00:11So my first essential would be the Bible.
00:14Over the last two years,
00:15my religion has become very important in my life.
00:18Just understanding that I'm made in the image of God
00:20and in a world where you have a bad game
00:23and they're killing you on social media
00:25or confidence goes up and down.
00:27I can always come right here, this is like my peace.
00:29Just understand that I'm made in his image
00:31and he's the only one who can really judge me.
00:33Growing up, like the verse that everybody got tattooed on
00:36was Philippians 4.13,
00:38I can do all through Christ who strengthens me.
00:40And I always believed in that,
00:41but I just, I never read the Bible.
00:43So it's been important to me the last two years.
00:44I didn't go to church or nothing like that growing up.
00:46So when I got to the NBA, they do chapel before every game.
00:49So when 60's on the clock, there's always a meeting
00:51where both teams, coaches,
00:53everybody's welcome to come in
00:54and do like a 15 minute service.
00:56Harrison Barnes was my vet.
00:57And so I used to always go with him
01:00and then when I got traded,
01:01just start going with Buddy and now Buddy's gone.
01:03So it's really just me most of the time
01:05and it's been really good for me.
01:10All right, so my next essential would be these right here.
01:13Just some loafers, everydays.
01:15These are Doc Martens.
01:16Everybody got these, everybody should own a pair of these.
01:19I got these in like every color.
01:21I mean, I got a pink pair, purple pair, blue pair, red pair.
01:25And these right here are some vintage products.
01:28I'm a grail demon, I be on grail looking for everything.
01:31So I be calling like Michael Jackson's
01:33or something like that.
01:33Like they just, they look fly, so I rock with them.
01:36Last like two, three seasons, my style has changed a lot.
01:39I used to be like every other player in the NBA,
01:41wear sneakers to every game with a graphic tee,
01:44some colored jeans and call it a day.
01:46But I realized I wanted to switch my style,
01:48be a little different than everybody.
01:49So I started wearing these.
01:51I remember the first game that I wore these was in Brooklyn
01:54and I felt like weird,
01:55but I also felt like fly at the same time.
01:57So then I kind of just stuck with it.
01:59And now it's really my everyday, my go-to,
02:01my stylist, Olivia, you know, we started doing that.
02:04This isn't just for the tunnel or for show.
02:07This is really who I am.
02:08It's just my everyday look.
02:09It just really fits who I am.
02:11My next essential would be white tees.
02:18I literally wear a white t-shirt every day.
02:24I always keep a fresh pack of white tees on me
02:27and I'm a bad folder.
02:29So y'all see right now, it's just, you know, wrinkled up,
02:31but I always keep a steamer in my suitcase too.
02:34Make sure I steam the shirts before I wear them.
02:36I got a bunch of fresh packs in my house at all times.
02:38So they start getting, you know, dirty or whatever.
02:42I'll get rid of it, open a new pack.
02:45Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.
02:46Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
02:48I mean, it's not one wear per shirt.
02:50I mean, I got money, but like, that's ridiculous.
02:53I'm gonna get my wears out of these shirts.
02:54I'm gonna get a few in.
02:55Once I start seeing like the bacon neck
02:57where it get all crazy, it's gotta go.
02:59When I'm doing laundry and I got fresh pair of white socks
03:02or I grab a shirt and I grab a fresh pair of white socks,
03:04if the white's too off, then the shirt gotta go.
03:12My next essential would be my gaming setup.
03:14A lot of people be on PlayStation or Xbox.
03:16I kind of moved away from that.
03:17I went to PC at the crib,
03:19but I realized that I do everything on PC at the crib
03:22and I travel and I be on Xbox or PlayStation
03:24and I don't have my data, my save on it.
03:27So I put all my games on this right here, my hard drive.
03:30You know, I can play everything on here.
03:31WWE, 2K, Call of Duty, Madden, everything on here.
03:35So that makes my life easy.
03:37I'm not a mouse and keyboard player.
03:39I don't really know how to type for real.
03:40Like I used to cheat in class and type with like,
03:43so I always keep a controller on me.
03:46And I know people like Joel see me with this controller.
03:49He was cooking me.
03:49He's a PlayStation guy.
03:51I grew up a PlayStation guy,
03:52but this connects to Windows the best.
03:55And then this right here, my mic.
03:57I recently started a YouTube channel
03:58with my little brother, Hellburn Bros.
04:00Make sure y'all go subscribe.
04:01You know, we can, you know,
04:02play through the cloud or whatever,
04:03put it on the mic and be good to record
04:05and get videos out.
04:07The main game we play in my house is WWE.
04:10Now that I made my little WWE appearance in the garden,
04:12you know, hopefully 2K can, you know,
04:14kind of a little transfer my character from NBA to WWE
04:17and I can be like a little DLC
04:19and get a little Easter egg in the game.
04:21That would be dope.
04:22That would be, that would be really cool.
04:24My top five games ever.
04:26Number five, I'm gonna go with Mario Party.
04:29You can, you can pick any of them.
04:30I grew up playing on the Wii.
04:32So whatever Mario Party was on the Wii, number five.
04:34Number four, I would say is Mario Kart.
04:37That's just easy for everybody.
04:39There's real smoke on that game.
04:41Number three, SmackDown, Here Comes the Pain.
04:44I think it's the best wrestling game ever.
04:46No question.
04:47Number two, NBA 2K11.
04:50Maybe it's just nostalgia that does it for me,
04:51but Mike was on the cover
04:53and I think that was like the first game in my career.
04:56And then number one, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2.
04:59I mean, unbelievable game, best maps, real smoke on there.
05:03And that was like when I really got into Call of Duty,
05:06getting in game chat, not party chat,
05:08where the real smoke is.
05:09On the 360, I had the mic that was hooked over one ear.
05:13That was hard.
05:14My next essential would be my jewelry box.
05:17I recently got into watches over the last like two years.
05:20So I got a Cartier Crash on right now.
05:23This is like my dream watch.
05:26After the end season tournament,
05:27we got that little bonus, spent it all on this watch.
05:31That's what I got.
05:32This is my first ever watch, Rolex, Presidential Day-Date.
05:35My newest pickup, Cartier Pebble on a white band.
05:40Now this right here is my,
05:41on a white band.
05:43Now this right here is my, one of my cheapest watches,
05:45but it's the most sentimental and my favorite by far.
05:48Back in 2023, when I signed my deal,
05:51my agent called me to tell me that the deal was done.
05:54I was in a store and I was so geeked.
05:57This is the first watch I saw.
05:59I said, I want that one.
06:00If I'm like playing bad or something,
06:02I like put this watch on.
06:03I don't know why.
06:04It just like makes me think like humble beginnings.
06:07My logo chain, I've had this since the draft.
06:09I wore this on draft night.
06:11I got a white gold one.
06:12I got a, I got a gold one.
06:15What I got under here?
06:15I don't even know, fam.
06:18Oh yeah.
06:19And I got this Homer chain.
06:21I ain't really seen anybody in the NBA rock this for real.
06:23So that's what made me get it, just to be different.
06:26I like being different.
06:28You know, I got a couple more chains
06:29in the works right now.
06:31So I'm excited for y'all to see them when they done.
06:35My next essential would be my toiletry bag.
06:37I'm sure y'all see every NBA player got a toiletry bag.
06:40Y'all see, I stopped the low cuts.
06:42They're growing my hair out.
06:44So I need like curl product, all that stuff
06:46to make sure I'm looking right.
06:49Curl activator.
06:50I told y'all I cut my hair.
06:52Defining spray.
06:53Told y'all I cut my hair.
06:55What's this?
06:56Face wash.
06:56I put a little travel thing and I wrote on it, face wash.
06:59Yeah, I'm tripping for that.
07:01What's this?
07:02Yeah, I'm tripping for that.
07:04What's this?
07:04Face lotion.
07:06Cotton pad wipes.
07:07Super essential.
07:09Cotton pad wipes for sure.
07:11Deodorant.
07:12Leave-in conditioner.
07:14Toothpaste.
07:16My toothbrush.
07:17And that leads me to my next essential,
07:19which would be my barber.
07:26This is my barber, Taren.
07:28He been cutting me since I got traded to Indiana.
07:31It's funny, we met on the road in like Orlando.
07:32He live in Toronto, so he was just on the move
07:34and that's where we met.
07:36We kind of been rocking ever since.
07:38Yeah, it's been a long time now.
07:39I travel around for a few different clients
07:41and then, you know, this one of my main guys.
07:44Not just a client at this point.
07:45He lets me work on my Toronto slang.
07:48Yeah.
07:49Don't know why I go out in there, you know.
07:50Don't know fam.
07:51Don't know.
07:52Yeah, whenever you don't know.
07:53Come on, broski.
07:54All that, you know.
07:55I ain't gonna lie though, like,
07:58say my name.
07:59Yeah.
08:00I'm gonna wrap a little touch up right there.
08:01Gotcha.
08:12He the king of,
08:14my cut gonna be an hour.
08:15An hour and a half.
08:17Hour and 45 minutes.
08:18I'm gonna be in a chair for a minute,
08:19but it's worth it.
08:21It's always worth it.
08:22Can't be looking like a scrub.
08:25Watching some dudes in the league,
08:26I ain't saying no names, bro.
08:29My next essential would be my iPad.
08:35I spend a lot of time out here on the road
08:37watching movies, TV shows.
08:39They send me my film through here,
08:40so this is what I watch on the road.
08:42If I'm not in my room, you know,
08:43if I'm on the go, I usually have this with me.
08:46TV shows I'm watching right now.
08:47Criminal Minds Evolution.
08:49I started Entourage recently.
08:52I gotta watch The Wire, Break It Bad.
08:54Something else, big passion of mine, WWE.
08:56I watch that a lot.
08:57Sometimes I'll just go on Peacock,
08:58or the old WWE pay-per-views or whatever,
09:01and just watch 90's stuff,
09:03looking like Stone Cold, The Rock,
09:06Young Taker, Young Sean.
09:08If it was up to me and I could transfer
09:10my basketball ability to be good at something else,
09:12I'd be a WWE superstar for sure.
09:14Oh yeah, she would kill me if I didn't say
09:18I've been watching Gossip Girl a little bit too.
09:20XOXO.
09:22Me and wife, me and wife have been watching Gossip Girl,
09:24so that Gossip Girl fire, I don't care what nobody say.
09:29My next essential would be headphones.
09:32I keep two pairs on me at all times.
09:34I keep earbuds, AirPods, and then I keep
09:36over-the-ear joints for the plane,
09:38because I fall asleep, these don't fall out.
09:40I don't do phone calls without AirPods.
09:42It feels weird when I have the phone in my ear.
09:43It's gotta be AirPods.
09:45And then just over-the-ear ones for the plane, that's all.
09:47I'm not a hype music guy.
09:49I never really got down with that.
09:51I like to listen to stuff that calms me down,
09:53some chill stuff.
09:55I really like old soul for real.
09:57I really listen to a lot of old stuff,
09:59so Michael Jackson, my all-time favorite artist,
10:01I listen to a lot of that.
10:02I listen to a lot of Drake.
10:04I feel like I grew up in his come up.
10:06I ain't gonna lie, Shaboozie put me on the country music.
10:09I wouldn't listen to country like that.
10:10I wasn't jacking it.
10:11And then Shaboozie came out,
10:13and I met him at the White Party, super cool dude.
10:15Once I started listening to Shaboozie,
10:16then I got into Morgan Wallen.
10:18Tommy Richmond, Tommy Richmond, nice.
10:20Big X the Plug, he's like that.
10:22But yeah, I listen to a lot of old music for real,
10:24like Jay-Z, Ye, Alicia Keys, stuff like that.
10:32My next essential would be my back pillow.
10:36I've had back problems since I was like 16,
10:38so I probably got like six, seven of these at the crib,
10:41just for my gaming chair, dinner table.
10:44I just grab one to go on the road, whatever.
10:46It's like essential.
10:47I need to be sitting upright.
10:48You can probably see right now,
10:49ever since I pulled this out, I started slouching,
10:51but it's supposed to give me that lumbar support
10:54to make me sit upright.
10:55This is definitely an essential.
10:56Now we doing that, I'm gonna put it back.
11:00There we go.
11:03Appreciate you having me, GQ.
11:04Hope y'all enjoyed my essentials.
11:05See y'all next time, peace.