Jalen Brunson And Tyrese Haliburton went into combat on the field during the The New York Knicks against. Indiana Pacers second round of the playoffs last season, but it’s possible we’ll eventually see them on another battlefield: a WWE ring.
Brunson and Haliburton, both All-NBA players, likely have a few more years left in their NBA careers, but Brunson doesn’t plan on stopping there. the possibility of wrestles Haliburton in WWE.
“I’ll never say never,” Brunson said at Fanatics Fest in New York. “Maybe we can make it happen.”
Could a fight between Jalen Brunson and Tyrese Haliburton happen in WWE?
Brunson and Haliburton have already appeared On WWE programming, the two NBA players were involved in a Logan Paul vs. LA Knight vs. Santos Escobar triple threat match on “Smackdown” in June. The event took place at Madison Square Garden, the home arena of Brunson’s Knicks, and during the match, Haliburton (wearing a “Tyrese 3:17 T-shirt”) attempted to come to Paul’s aid with a pair of brass knuckles but was distracted by Brunson, who jumped over the barricade.
After the match, Haliburton and Paul appeared ready to attack Knight, though Brunson entered the ring with a steel chair, eventually causing Paul and Haliburton to flee.
While the WWE-NBA Crossover The match went well, but caused some panic among Knicks fans. During his brief appearance in the ring, Brunson grimaced and looked at his left hand, which he had broken during the playoffs and had recently undergone surgery to repair. This seemingly random act seemed to indicate a worsening of his injury, but Brunson said afterward that he was improvising.
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“I freestyled a little bit, and the part where I freestyled freaked everybody out,” Brunson said on the “Roommates” podcast. “My sisters sent me this screenshot… of a tweet from someone who screenshotted the video and saw my hand folded, it was like a broken heart, like it was a bunch of broken hearts. Everyone was like, ‘Stay home! Stop playing, wrap it in bubble wrap!’”
Even though Brunson appears to be doing well, that probably won’t help a potential WWE fight — as an active NBA player, anyway. While Dennis Rodman and Karl Malone wrestled in WCW in the 1990s to capitalize on their fame and the Chicago Bulls-Utah Jazz rivalry, the Knicks and Pacers likely won’t let that happen with Brunson and Haliburton.
NBA contracts contain clauses that specify what activities players cannot do, and professional wrestling is almost certainly one of them. In any case, Brunson and Haliburton, who both earn significantly more than Malone and Rodman (the two current players will each earn $180 million or more over the next five years), therefore do not need to wrestle to make a lot of money.
