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Tony East: Rick Carlisle said pregame in San Antonio that Andrew Nembhard and Pascal Siakam are going to play tonight.
Myles Turner: “We go to the Eastern Conference Finals, and this is so rare, bro. Like, this is the year before the finals. We had a team of like eight or nine guys in contract years. And typically when that happens, like chemistry is messed up. Everybody's worried about what they got to do for themselves. That wasn't the case, bro. We had such an amazing group, bro. And we, you know, we talk about lockers all the time, bro. You win, everybody gets paid. Like, that's the ultimate goal. And that's ultimately what happened. We won and like seven of those guys all got great contracts. Everybody got paid, right? Everybody got what they were supposed to get paid. So, I knew my contrib was the next year, right? So, in my head, I'm thinking, all right, well, you know what? It's my turn. You know what I mean? Like, you know, I'm going to the prime of my career.”
Myles Turner: “So, in my head, I'm thinking, all right, well, you know what? It's my turn. You know what I mean? Like, you know, I'm going to the prime of my career. These are the most, you know, the prime money-making parts of my career, what not. I got to take full advantage where I'm at. So, we get to the finals. Yeah. And I'm thinking, we just superseded what we did the year before and I'm the only one really in the contract year. And, you know, with with Indiana, they're one of the few organizations that have never gone into the luxury tax. And what's being told to me is like pretty much all year is that you know you know we're we're going to lux make sure we take care of you yada yada and then again we lose in the finals whatnot. Hi goes down and then we get to free agency which is like a couple days later basically and they're singing a different tune. So they present their offer to me and you know I know how business works and I thought it was a lowball offer but I thought you know you work up from there right and then I get presented an offer with Milwaukee that's $40 million more. And like of course anybody this is a business at the end of the day, bro. I can't I love Indiana. I love where I was at. We got to the finals, but it's like I got to make a decision that's best for me and my family.
Myles Turner: “So, and again, like, you know, there was like comments that that I said afterwards that people kind of took and spun for their own narrative, whatnot. You know, I'm saying like I'm in a spot that is going to appreciate me now. And about then I was talking about the front office, but they in the city of Indiana took it on them like, ‘Oh, we appreciate you for years. The [__] are you talking about?’ “And then I got on a podcast just like this and started talking about, you know, Tyrese and like our relationship or whatnot. Talked about him for like what, like, I don't know, maybe like five minutes of everything that we had been through. Then it took like a 5-second clip, but I said something about like, uh, oh, fake tough guy, this, this, and that. Clip farm that and try to make me into like into the enemy and whatnot. Like that's just how it goes, bro. But I mean again I understood game afterwards and you know it was real no no real bad blood but kind of just is what it is cuz it is a rivalry and now I'm forever just going to kind of be that guy. The hardest part was getting booed though. I will say that going back to the arena and then you know you put 10 years of your life and your blood sweat into like you know an organization. I got booed throughout the entire tribute video bro. And again like the what people say is that I deserved it because of like what I said and this and that.”
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Myles Turner: I rock with Rick (Carlisle) too. He’s one of my favorite coaches. But I think he was salty too. You know what I’m saying? With how everything shook out.
Scott Agness: Pacers’ final scheduled national TV appearance of the season has been dropped. NBC/Peacock will now air Hornets at Celtics on April 7 instead of Timberwolves-Pacers (which will now tip at 7 ET)
Tony East: Missed this from this morning, but the Noblesville Boom announced this morning that forward Cody Martin, who played for the Pacers this season, is out for the year with a right shoulder injury. Additionally, the team has reacquired forward/center Jordan Bell.
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Haliburton said he doesn’t have any clear objectives when he makes his return. The only thing on his mind is to finish the job and win a championship. “None that I’ve thought through yet,” Haliburton said. “For me, it’s just about coming back and being the best version of myself. As far as giving myself an objective or anything, I haven’t really thought about it. Obviously I want to get exactly back to where I was and beyond. And win a championship of course. I just really want to get back to full health and get back to attacking every day as hard as I can being away from the court.”
Haliburton said the results of this year doesn’t have any impact on how he’s approaching his return to the court. “The result of our year, if it was good or bad, wouldn’t have done anything for me,” Haliburton said. “Obviously, I want my guys to succeed. It’s important that these guys are learning. We’re growing every day and trying to be the best version of ourselves. But at the end of the day, for me, it’s about getting back to being fully healthy. “Obviously, I want to do all these things. I think anybody who knows me, knows any basketball player, when they get back they want to have as much success as possible. That’s definitely the case with me as well. But I think it ultimately comes down to just getting back on the floor. That’s the most important thing right now. Everything else will take care of itself. But of course, I’m a competitor first.”
"The game has changed. One of the compelling aspects of it to me is that when the effort was made to eliminate back-to-backs, in order to have the space to do that, you needed to shorten training camp. So training camp essentially became three weeks instead of four. That extra week to build a base in terms of strength, many layers of protection that you can get for the body, I’ve always wondered if the effort to have less back-to-backs was really worth it. Essentially, you’re playing every other day. But these are all questions. "There are a lot of great things about today’s game (and) schedule. The longer All-Star break has been a real positive…. To get to the heart of the matter, you’re going to have to talk about the finances of it. I certainly am in agreement that it’s conversation worth having…. (The exact solution) is hard to say… but the nature of the game has changed significantly. Steve is right on point with that. The speed and everything is quite different than it was five-six years ago, three-four years ago.”