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Happy Leap Year birthday to Tyrese Haliburton, the 'best 6-year-old in the NBA'

Happy Leap Year birthday to Tyrese Haliburton, the 'best 6-year-old in the NBA'
YOU CRAZY, CRAZY PLAYER. EARLY YOU GET TO WATCH HIM ON TV PLAY, THOUGH. YEAH. IT’LL BE GOOD FOR HIM. JUST OVER TWO YEARS AGO, TYRESE HALIBURTON ANNOUNCED HE WAS LEAVING IOWA STATE TO PURSUE HIS DREAM OF PLAYING IN THE NBA. THAT DECISION, THOUGH, SIMULTANEOUSLY CRUSHED THE DREAMS OF THAT YOUNG BOY. THERE. YOU JUST SAW HIM. PALMER. DANIELS IS THE BIGGEST TYRESE HALIBURTON AROUND. AND THE VIDEO YOU JUST SAW WENT VIRAL. SO MUCH SO THAT IT CAUGHT THE ATTENTION OF HALIBURTON HIMSELF, WHO SAID THEY WOULD GET PALMER AND HIS FAMILY, TO A SACRAMENTO KINGS GAME. UNFORTUNATELY, THAT NEVER HAPPENED. BUT WITH HALIBURTON A LITTLE BIT CLOSER TO IOWA, PLAYING FOR THE INDIANA PACERS, A REUNION FINALLY BECAME POSSIBLE. AND PALMER SHOWING EVERYONE THAT OLD SAYING OF DON’T MEET YOUR HEROES. THAT’S PURE NONSENSE. IN GRANGER, IOWA, THIRD GRADER PALMER DANIELSON IS PRACTICING FOR A BIG BASKET BALL SEASON. MEANWHILE, ALL THE WAY IN INDIANA IS FORMER IOWA STATE CYCLONES TYRESE HALIBURTON IS HAVING A CAREER. YOU WOULDN’T THINK THESE TWO ARE CONNECTED UNTIL A PACERS GAME OR THANKSGIVING BREAK. WE TOL
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Happy Leap Year birthday to Tyrese Haliburton, the 'best 6-year-old in the NBA'
Tyrese Haliburton has accomplished a lot for a 6-year-old.The former Cyclone basketball star, now in his fourth year in the NBA, made his second All-Star Game appearance earlier this month, just days before his sixth birthday.Well, kinda.Previous video above: Iowa third-grader goes to Pacers game to meet his favorite former CycloneHaliburton was born on Leap Day, Feb. 29, 2000, meaning today is just the sixth time his birthday has been on the calendar despite Haliburton now being 24 years old.Of course, NBA fans and teams had fun with it. Here's how the basketball community wished Haliburton a happy sixth birthday.'The best 6-year-old in the NBA'

Tyrese Haliburton has accomplished a lot for a 6-year-old.

The former Cyclone basketball star, now in his fourth year in the NBA, made his second All-Star Game appearance earlier this month, just days before his sixth birthday.

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Well, kinda.

Previous video above: Iowa third-grader goes to Pacers game to meet his favorite former Cyclone

Haliburton was born on Leap Day, Feb. 29, 2000, meaning today is just the sixth time his birthday has been on the calendar despite Haliburton now being 24 years old.

Of course, NBA fans and teams had fun with it. Here's how the basketball community wished Haliburton a happy sixth birthday.

'The best 6-year-old in the NBA'

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