Tyrese Haliburton is dishing his way to the All-Star team

Last week Tyrese Haliburton was Player of the Week. He’s pushing for much more.

Haliburton had 15 assists — and nil turnovers — in Indiana’s win over the Brooklyn Nets, 128-117. It’s his fourth straight sport with 14 or extra assists and his eighth double-digit help sport in the final 9 contests. Haliburton is main the NBA in assists by a large margin over second-place Trae Young (11.1 per sport to 9.1).

What units Haliburton aside is each the quantity and the high quality of his assists. He’s additionally forward in help factors created, a stat that tracks precisely what number of factors a participant’s passes lead to. Haliburton is creating 29.6 factors per sport with assists, together with his 19.9 factors per sport as a scorer. The purpose it is so excessive is that Haliburton has a knack for getting his teammates beauty from three-point vary. Indiana has gone from sixteenth in the league in three-pointers to third, and an enormous a part of that is Haliburton’s courtroom imaginative and prescient.