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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 And I'm thinking, we just superseded what we did the year before and I'm the only one really in the contract year.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, I think in their heads what they was thinking cuz obviously you know the little the thing that happened with Damian Lillard had they waved and stretched out. It created a lot more cap space. And if you look at the cap space for that summertime, I think in their heads they was thinking there was nowhere else for me to go. Which I'm a businessman. I'm like, ‘Okay, cool. I got this asset. There's nowhere else for him to go. I'm off from a low bomb and see what happens.’ So they made that final offer on the table and whatnot and they weren't willing to go up very high, you know, contrary to what's said out there, they wasn't willing to go up and once the news broke, it was like a oh [ __ ] he betrayed us, you know what I mean?”
Myles Turner: “I couldn’t tell Tyrese, Pascal, Obi, TJ, or any of those guys what was really going on at the time because, one, it’s basically a breach when you’re in active negotiations. And two, I couldn’t show my hand. If I told them what was up, then all of a sudden it gets back to the front office like, ‘Oh, Myles, you’ve got this going on,’ and that could mess up my whole free-agency process. And mind you, this was my first time ever being a free agent—an unrestricted free agent. So I had to cherish that opportunity to choose, and I was going to take full advantage of it.”
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.
The Giannis Antetokounmpo relationship with Milwaukee currently is what, Brian? Brian Windhorst: “The Giannis Antetokounmpo relationship with Milwaukee currently is not connected. And this entire season has really been a complete disappointment for them. They made one of the more aggressive transactions I can remember in the modern era last summer when they waived Dame Lillard’s money, keeping it on their books and paying it off over the next five years, and then immediately went out and signed Myles Turner for $100 million. So it was like a $200 million transaction there: $100 million in dead money, $100 million in new money. And while Myles Turner is a quality player, Dame Lillard is a difference-making player. Myles Turner is not.”
Eric Nehm: Bucks coach Doc Rivers tells reporters that - in addition to Giannis and Alex Antetokounmpo - Myles Turner will be out tonight. Ousmane Dieng is going to be available. Ryan Rollins is going to try to play.
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Eric Nehm: Updated Bucks injury report for tonight's game vs. Cleveland. Out: Alex Antetokounmpo (Two-Way). Questionable: Giannis Antetokounmpo (left ankle sprain), Ousmane Dieng (illness), Ryan Rollins (illness), Myles Turner (right calf strain)
Tony East: From Doc Rivers: Giannis Antetokounmpo is playing, Ousmane Dieng is out, Bobby Portis is playing, Myles Turner is playing
While he has remained the Milwaukee Bucks’ starter at center, Myles Turner has played significantly fewer minutes in the 10 games played after the All-Star break (22.7 per game) than he did in 50 games before the break (28.6). Before playing 32 minutes in Tuesday night’s 129-114 loss to the Phoenix Suns, with both Jericho Sims and Bobby Portis sidelined, Turner hadn’t played more than 25 minutes in any post-All-Star-break game. That change in minutes distribution has left Turner trying to find a rhythm to make an impact in a more limited role.
“I’m trying to figure it out, man. Honestly, I’m trying to figure all that out,” Turner said after shootaround on Tuesday. “Some days, I’ll play 22 (minutes). Some days, it’s 28. I think everybody in the organization is trying to figure it out — just different lineups, different combination of guys. “At times, we like to go with switching lineups, so they put Jericho (Sims) or Ous (Ousmane Dieng) or Kuz (Kyle Kuzma), one of those guys at my position. But all I can do is go out there, just stay consistent, put my work in every single day, just to be available and be healthy. And whatever’s asked of me to do, just go out there and do.”
