Hali 2 Thermal Vision Runs Lime to Red Across the Midsole

Lime green at the toe, yellow and orange through the middle, red at the heel. The Puma Hali 2 Thermal Vision is built to look like Tyrese Haliburton's foot seen through a heat camera, and Puma will sell it on December 4. It's the first colorway of his second signature shoe, and it's the loudest thing the brand has made for him.

Good. He's earned loud.

Haliburton spent 16 months getting back from a torn Achilles, then opened this season with 23 points and 12 assists. A quiet grey shoe would've undersold that.

Lime Green Turns Red by the Heel

The Thermal Vision keeps the low cut of the Hali 1 and changes almost everything you can see. The Nitro foam midsole carries the gradient, lime green into yellow, then orange, then red. Up top there's a royal blue overlay with a bright yellow cage and tongue, and the heel fades from red to orange.

Underneath, the outsole is translucent and icy blue. A clear counter wraps the outside of the heel, with Puma's cat logo sitting on it.

Every one of those colors is doing the job of a thermal image, where cold reads blue and heat reads red. Nothing in the shoe reacts to temperature. It's a paint job, and a committed one.

Puma's line for it is short. "Y'all see that?"

Hard not to.

Salehe Bembury Showed It Before Puma Did

Haliburton wore the Hali 2 for the first time at Pacers Media Day in September. Salehe Bembury, who designed the Hali 1, followed with his own in hand look at the pair, and official images arrived on September 28 under style code 314854 01.

Bembury has had a year. He picked up a 2026 Instagram Rings award in October, the month his Hali 1 Pace reached stores. The Hali 2 sharpens the shape of that first shoe. The cut stays low and close to the foot, and the lines get harder.

It's listed at $130, matching the Hali 1. The first shoe earned that number on court. It ran on a full length slab of Nitro foam with a plastic shank under the arch, and WearTesters scored it nine out of ten. The grip is Puma's own PUMAGRIP rubber, which The Hoops Geek rated 9.3 out of 10 for traction.

Indianapolis Got the Hali 1 First

The Hali 1 has only been on sale for about fourteen months. Puma showed it in June 2025 in a color called Hibiscus, timed to Haliburton's first NBA Finals. Its launch pair was Opal, a blue, released worldwide on September 26, 2025.

Before that there was Hali Mart, a pop up in Indianapolis that sold 317 pairs. That's the city's area code.

Four more colorways followed. Hibiscus reached stores that November, Smoke in January, Halucinating in March. The latest was the yellow and blue Hali 1 Pace, a Pacers pair, on October 23.

Haliburton only signed with Puma in October 2024, leaving Nike to do it.

Haliburton Came Back at 21.8 and 9.5

He tore his right Achilles in Game 7 of the 2025 Finals and didn't play at all in 2025 to 2026. Indiana won 19 games without him.

The line kept moving while he rehabbed. Puma put out Hali hats that July, cut from the fitted cap he wore in the 2025 Eastern Conference Finals.

Then he came back. On opening night in New Orleans he had those 23 points and 12 assists in a 123 to 120 win, with 13 of the points in the fourth quarter. Later that week he put 24 and 10 on Brooklyn in a 136 to 109 win. Through four games he averaged 21.8 points and 9.5 assists on better than 51 percent shooting, per Basketball Reference.

That's not a player easing in. That's the guy from the 2025 playoffs.

Puma Has the Hali 2 Waiting for Him

The catch is that he's sitting again. Haliburton strained his left hamstring four games in, and Rick Carlisle said this week that he's improving and still at least ten days from a return.

A hamstring isn't an Achilles. The Pace went on sale the night of his first home game back, sixteen months after the injury. He had 18 points and seven assists that night, and he was at 21.8 a game when the hamstring grabbed.

When he's back, he'll be wearing lime green, yellow, orange and red, with ice under his feet.