Tyrese Haliburton weighed in on the debate surrounding the uptick in Achilles injuries across the NBA last season, saying he doesn't believe there's a definitive answer beyond that of bad luck.

Haliburton is in the midst of recovery from his own Achilles tear, which he suffered early in Game 7 of the NBA Finals against the Oklahoma City Thunder . He was the third player to suffer an Achilles tear in the playoffs and the seventh overall last season.

"I think that there's like a notion when guys get injured or when this has happened so many times that everybody thinks that they have the answer to why this is happening," Haliburton said Tuesday on ESPN's "Pat McAfee Show" in his first public appearance since the injury. "Everybody thinks we play too many games, we play too many minutes -

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