INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Tyrese Haliburton’s return to practice could be coming soon. Indiana Pacers head coach Rick Carlisle said Indiana All-Star is trending in the right direction as he recovers from shingles. Initially, the team was told Haliburton could return to team activities as earl y as after this upcoming west coast road trip, but the timetable is still up in the air. “I know that he’s making progress. I don’t have a timetable for when he’ll be back around,” Carlisle said. “I do know that he’s doing better, feeling better, and things are going in a good direction. But it’s something that takes time.” Haliburton was in the middle of rehabbing from Achilles surgery when contracting the virus at the end of February. Carlisle said he was “making a lot of progress on the floor before it happened with conditioning.” “He was playing 2-on-2, 3-on-3, 4-on-4. I think he was even up to 5-on-5 with our interns and with our low-minute guys. But then something like this happens, it takes you out of being on the court and sweating and those kinds of things, so we’ll have to see how long it takes for him to catch back up.” <blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>quot;He#39;s doing better, feeling better, amp; things are going in a good direction.quot;<br><br>I asked <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/Pacers?src=hashamp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>#Pacers</a> HC Rick Carlisle for an update on Tyrese Haliburton – who#39;s still recovering from shingles. Carlisle says Haliburton was progressing well from the Achilles tear before this happened. <a href=”https://t.co/DEux3edxzR”>pic.twitter.com/DEux3edxzR</a></p>mdash; Angela Moryan (@AngelaMoryanTV) <a href=”https://twitter.com/AngelaMoryanTV/status/2028906422696607896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>March 3, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script> Even with Haliburton’s progression, there’s still no set date for his return to the team or when he’ll be back full strength. “There’s no way to know a timetable, but the important thing is he’s doing better,” Carlisle said. “He’s going to be 100% fine. We just don’t know the exact timetable.” The Pacers head west for a four-game trip starting with the the Los Angeles Clippers Wednesday at 10:30 p.m. ...read more read less