Oklahoma City – A blind emotional Tieres haliburton The first quarter of the NBA Final Game 7 was helped to go out of the court after going down with a perfect lower leg injury. Oklahoma City Thunder On Sunday night.

His father, John Heliberton, told Lisa Salter of ESPN that it was an Akilis injury.

According to Salter, John Heliberton said that his son is in good souls and is watching the game and stopping his team from the locker room.

Heliberton did not put any weight on the leg and his face was wrapped in towels because he was taken Indiana PacersLocker room for evaluation. The team later announced that it would not return.

Heliberton, who was playing through a right calf, climbed the floor with a noncontactal injury as he was trying to drive in the basket with 4:55 remaining in the initial quarters.

He immediately started slapping the court in frustration and remained on the floor as almost the entire pacers team surrounded him.

“This is a heartbreak, man,” pacers center Miles Turner After the initial period, an in-game told Salters during the interview. “It’s unfortunate … but we have got his back.”

Heliberton had nine points, when he was hurt, 3 of the 4 3-pointers knocked.

Despite suffering from the stress of the calf in the final game 5 of the final, Heliburton insisted on playing through the injury, saying that “If I can walk, I want to play.”

One day before Game 7, Heliberton admitted after practice that his leg “still rigid, still sore,” but he planned to play through it.

25 -year -old Heliberton was doing a breakout Postsen, who took Indiana to the finals on her unfair run. In all four rounds, he hit a game-tie or game-winner shot in the last second, the first player in the history of NBA does so in the same postsen.

He offers an average of 17.7 points and a playoff-agron 9.0 assistance on Sunday 46% shooting. His 197 assistance was also a franchise record for a single poston.