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NBA Star Coming To WWE 2K25 As Part of New DLC Pack

The Indiana Pacers star will feature alongside two more as-yet-unnamed NBA players in the game
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Tyrese Haliburton isn't just becoming more and more acquainted with the WWE ring. He's becoming part of WWE's virtual world as well.

The Indiana Pacers star appeared on Monday Night Raw last night to announce that he would be available as a playable character in an upcoming Downloadable Content pack.

The two-time NBA All-Star will be part of the 'Dunk & Destruction' (INCREDIBLE potential name for a basketball gimmicked tag team) pack that is released on June 25. The pack will also include Abyss (hyped) and The Great Khali (HYPED).

In addition to Khali and Abyss, 'Dunk & Destruction' will also feature two more NBA stars to download, although it has not been revealed who they will be at the time of writing.

Some clips of Haliburton in the game have already begun doing the rounds on social media, with the Pacers star sporting the 'Tyrese 3:17' t-shirt that he wore during his confrontation with the New York Knicks' Jalen Brunson on SmackDown, last year.

With the Eastern Conference Finals fast approaching, WWE have dropped official merchandise for Haliburton and Brunson, with Triple H also posting on X that his phone has been blowing up due to the amount of calls and messages he's recieving from NBA stars to become involved with WWE during the post-season, this summer.

Haliburton has been prominently featured across WWE and NXT programming over the past year or so, with the Pacers star's appearance also adding more weight to the working partnership WWE have with the city of Indianapolis. This year's Royal Rumble was hosted at Lucas Oil Stadium, home of the Indianapolis Colts, with a future SummerSlam and WrestleMania expected to play out there, also.

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JOE BAIAMONTE

Joe Baiamonte is a contributing writer for The Takedown On SI, joining the team in April, 2025. Joe has been covering professional wrestling, sports and entertainment for over a decade, serving as editor at SPORTbible between 2014 and 2018 - where he helped the team to three consecutive Football Blogging Awards - and as head of sport at Unilad. Joe has written for numerous outlets in the United Kingdom and United States, including The Sportsman, Sporf, Pubity, GiveMeSport and The Sportster, interviewing the likes of Neymar, Harry Kane, Ruud Gullit, Triple H, Ric Flair, Cody Rhodes, Becky Lynch, Rey Mysterio, Aaron Boone, Alex Cora, Chris Sale and Chase Uttley. He has a BA (Hons) degree in Journalism and Broadcasting from the University of Salford and currently resides in Manchester, England, having been raised just down the road in Burnley. He briefly moved to Croatia with his family after the birth of his son, where he spent an entire summer writing on the beach and eating squid.

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