Key Takeaways
- Tyrese Haliburton still hunts for bargains on Facebook Marketplace and eBay despite signing a five-year, $244 million contract with the Indiana Pacers.
- The NBA All-Star recently bought a turntable in a Krispy Kreme parking lot, previously picked up a Steam Deck outside Wendy’s, and admitted he lowballs Grailed sellers from a fake account.
- Haliburton said he has “got to keep this money,” though he once spent nearly his entire $250,000 In-Season Tournament payout on a Cartier Crash watch.
If you put a couch on Facebook Marketplace, you just might get a visit from Tyrese Haliburton. Despite signing a five-year, $244 million contract with the Indiana Pacers, Haliburton is apparently still scrolling Marketplace, eBay, and Grailed looking for a bargain—and he's not above meeting a seller in a fast-food parking lot to close the deal.
During a wide-ranging appearance on Boardroom Talks with Speedy Morman, Haliburton revealed that he recently bought a turntable on Facebook Marketplace and met the seller in a Krispy Kreme parking lot to pick it up.
"Sometimes, you know, I go on wherever I'm looking at, I see something, I'm like, 'Oh, I want it, but that would be financially irresponsible for me to just buy it because I just saw it right there. Why don't we search for a deal?'" Haliburton explained.
And searching for a deal is apparently serious business in the Haliburton household.
Haliburton said he checks eBay—"one of the best websites in the world," by his estimation—before hitting Marketplace to see if somebody nearby has what he's looking for.
Before he and Jade Jones married this summer, Haliburton said Jones contacted the turntable seller so his famous name wouldn't give away who was buying it. Haliburton then showed up for the exchange himself.
The seller didn't recognize him until the transaction was nearly over.
"He was like, 'Wait, are you—' And I was like, 'Yeah, get in the car. You just slide,'" Haliburton recalled.
The turntable isn't Haliburton's only Marketplace find. He said he previously bought a Steam Deck through the platform and believes that exchange went down in a Wendy's parking lot. When he was traded from Sacramento to Indiana in 2022, his parents also sold furniture from his California home on Marketplace.
Then there's Grailed, where Haliburton admitted he uses a fake username and has absolutely no problem sending sellers an aggressive offer.
"I'm lowballing every offer," he said. "I'm offering you half, maybe less."
Why?
"I got to keep this money," he said, laughing.
That philosophy also explains why Haliburton has been spotted flying Southwest despite having one of the NBA's biggest contracts. "If we could save our coins a little bit, why would I not?" he said, explaining that the cost of routinely flying private still makes him uncomfortable.
Haliburton hasn't always resisted the urge to splurge. After receiving roughly $250,000 for the Pacers' run to the 2023 In-Season Tournament final, he said he spent essentially the entire bonus on a Cartier Crash watch. His subsequent partnership with Movado, he said, helped pull him away from a "bad path" of increasingly expensive watch purchases.
So, if a suspiciously tall guy shows up at Krispy Kreme to buy your turntable—or starts offering half of what you asked for on Grailed—there's at least a chance it's an NBA All-Star trying to keep some of that $244 million.
