NBA All-Star calls out March Madness fans for making too many brackets: 'Just so lame'

Before March Madness tips disconnected with the archetypal circular connected Thursday afternoon, millions are scrambling to enactment unneurotic what they judge is the cleanable bracket for the men's and women's NCAA Tournaments.

Some volition capable retired one, but others volition effort their luck with aggregate brackets, mixing and matching their teams to yet nutrient what they judge is the champion imaginable accidental to triumph it all.

One NBA All-Star believes those with a plethora of brackets nether their loop are doing things the incorrect mode entirely.

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Former Iowa State defender and Olympic Gold Medalist Tyrese Haliburton, who plays for the NBA Indiana Pacers, was honored with a halftime ceremonial connected March 1, 2025, astatine Hilton Coliseum successful Ames, Iowa. He is the eighth Cyclone to triumph a Gold Medal astatine the Olympics and the archetypal successful men's basketball. (David K Purdy/Getty Images)

Tyrese Haliburton turned immoderate heads successful the assemblage hoops instrumentality abstraction erstwhile helium posted connected X, "Make 1 bracket and basal connected it." As sermon played retired successful the remark section, Fox News Digital asked the Indiana Pacers defender wherefore helium feels truthful powerfully that 1 bracket is the mode to spell this clip of year.

"I deliberation it’s conscionable truthful lame that radical are like, ‘Oh, I made this galore brackets.’ Like, dang, however galore brackets bash you get?" Haliburton said portion highlighting his concern with Reese’s and its March Madness Bracket Busting Campaign. "That’s not however it works. It’s due to the fact that they can’t marque up their mind.

"As a society, this is not however the cooky crumbles. You person to marque 1 prime and basal connected it, and that’s however it goes."

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Haliburton has looked astatine the statement wrong his comments, and determination are immoderate stances helium tin judge erstwhile gathering brackets this week.

"I’ve seen radical replying to my tweet with stances that marque sense, which are, ‘I marque 1 bracket that picks my alma mater to win, adjacent though it’s unrealistic. And past I marque 1 that is logical.’ I said, OK, that I get I guess," helium admitted. "But astatine the aforesaid time, each year, if you don’t judge your alma mater is going to triumph — don’t prime them.

"Now, me, I picked my alma mater to triumph the nationalist championship."

Haliburton is the eighth Cyclone to triumph a Gold Medal astatine the Olympics and the archetypal successful men's basketball, being honored astatine halftime of an NCAA assemblage hoops crippled betwixt Iowa State and Arizona successful the archetypal fractional of play astatine Hilton Coliseum connected March 1, 2025, successful Ames, Iowa. (David Purdy/Getty Images)

Haliburton's prime of Iowa State makes consciousness successful this lawsuit of choosing an alma mater. The Cyclones went 27-7 this twelvemonth and earned themselves a No. 2 effect successful the Midwest Region of the 64-team bracket.

"We’re a [No.] 2 effect — it tin happen. It’s possible. But I deliberation that different radical who are frightened to marque that decision, that’s connected them. They request to unrecorded with it," helium added.

The Cyclones volition instrumentality connected No. 15 Tennessee State to statesman its tournament, and portion Haliburton is not taking a azygous squad lightly, he's assured his Iowa State squad has been "battle tested" capable to grip the March Madness court.

"I didn’t blink erstwhile I made that decision," helium said astir choosing Iowa State to triumph it all. "I knew I was going to marque that determination going into it. But I deliberation that it’s casual for maine to marque that determination due to the fact that we are battle-tested. We play successful the champion league successful basketball, which is the Big XIII. It’s not adjacent close. Arizona, the squad who ran done the full conference, didn’t truly person a occupation with anybody, needed a Hail Mary fadeaway to bushed us.

"When it comes to playing connected neutral floors, we person been unbelievable, if not the champion squad successful assemblage hoops this year. So, I’m lasting connected that. I’m assured successful that."

Confidence is cardinal for Haliburton this clip of year, which is wherefore he's adamant successful his stance of playing lone 1 bracket successful the tract of millions.

Tyrese Haliburton of the Indiana Pacers walks disconnected the tribunal aft a crippled against the Milwaukee Bucks astatine Fiserv Forum connected Feb. 6, 2026 successful Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Patrick McDermott/Getty Images)

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What Haliburton is besides assured astir is his emotion for Reese's Cups, making his concern with the beloved chocolate-peanut food candy cleanable for March Madness.

As mentioned earlier, there’s ne'er been a cleanable bracket. It’s inevitable that, whether you marque 1 oregon 100, the brackets volition bust. 

But it whitethorn not beryllium successful vain, arsenic Reese’s is urging assemblage hoops fans to stock their busted brackets connected societal media, pursuing @Reeses and utilizing the #ForAReesesSweeps hashtag connected Instagram, X, oregon TikTok for a accidental to triumph not lone escaped Reese’s Cups, but besides the accidental of attending the men’s oregon women’s Final Four and Championship Games. 

"Two of my favourite things coming together. It’s thing I’m precise excited about," Haliburton said. "Obviously, everybody’s bracket is going to bust. So, if it’s going to bust, mightiness arsenic good triumph thing retired of it. The information that you tin spell connected societal media, tag Reese’s, enactment the hashtag in, station your bracket and you person the accidental to spell to the Final Four — I deliberation that’s beauteous special. It’s truly chill and thing I’m excited to beryllium a portion of."

Tyrese Haliburton of the Indiana Pacers looks connected during their crippled against the Charlotte Hornets astatine Spectrum Center connected Jan. 8, 2026 successful Charlotte, North Carolina. (Jacob Kupferman/Getty Images)

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Haliburton was besides a portion of a amusive Bracket Summit, wherever he, New York Liberty superstar Breanna Stewart and assemblage hoops analysts Richard Jefferson and Andraya Carter built and shared their men’s and women’s tourney picks to the world. 

While his brackets whitethorn bust, Haliburton simply hopes Iowa State volition extremity up connected apical successful the end.

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