“I’m vaccinated, don’t worry,” Tyrese Haliburton said with a smile and laugh when meeting most reporters for the first time in-person at the Sacramento Kings’ media day on Monday.
Entering his second year, Hali is not entirely new to the NBA landscape, though the professionalism he carries himself with was prevalent from the day he arrived in Sacramento. That’s why there is some irony in that this will be a season of firsts for Haliburton, who joined the association in the midst of a pandemic.
One of the first “firsts” for Haliburton was the Kings’ grand-scale digital production on Monday.