50 Cent accused a woman of cursing NBA players wearing #0 after Tyrese Haliburton’s injury derailed the Pacers’ 2025 Finals hopes.
50 Cent lashed out over a wave of devastating injuries in the NBA playoffs and accused a mystery woman of cursing players wearing the number zero, including Indiana Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton, who tore his Achilles tendon in Game 7 of the 2025 NBA Finals.
“When I find the b#### that put the juju on my man? This s### ain’t just happening just to be happening, the s### is happening for a reason,” 50 Cent said in a video. “How everybody with zero get their Achilles snapped? Everybody’s s### is popped. Like, everybody’s s###. Right? You got Damien Lillard, right? Jason Tatum? And Haliburton.”
50 Cent, has a business relationship with the Indiana Pacers through his Sire Spirits brand and G-Unity Foundation. Despite his New York roots, he’s been a vocal supporter of the Pacers, especially during their 2025 Finals run.
His frustration peaked after Haliburton, who wore jersey number 0, suffered a torn right Achilles less than five minutes into the first quarter of Game 7.
The injury ended his season and required surgery in New York with Dr. Martin O’Malley. Haliburton had been playing through a calf strain before the rupture and is expected to miss the entire 2025-26 season.
Haliburton wasn’t alone. Jayson Tatum of the Boston Celtics and Damian Lillard of the Milwaukee Bucks—both also wearing number 0—suffered similar injuries during the 2025 postseason.
In total, seven NBA players tore their Achilles tendons this season, the most in league history.
“All of my n##### is dead. All of my friends are dead now. I’m singing Lil Uzi out this b####. Because this m###########, when I find his hoe, she dead,” 50 Cent lamented.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has acknowledged the disturbing trend but has a different take than 50 Cent. He said the league is turning to artificial intelligence to comb through video and player data in search of patterns.
“I’m hopeful that by looking at more data, by looking at patterns, this is one area where A.I. — people are talking about how that’s going to transform so many areas — the ability with A.I. to ingest all video of every game a player’s played in to see if you can detect some pattern that we didn’t realize that leads to an Achilles injury. We’re taking it very seriously,” Silver said in an interview with NBA.com.
Silver said the league began reviewing injury data before Haliburton’s injury and ruled out season length as a factor. The NBA has not announced when it expects to complete its investigation.
