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Myles Turner: “More reps are great. You can’t keep using the excuse that it’s early, that we’re a new team. This league moves fast, and it’s easy to be forgotten in this league. No one’s going to feel sorry for us, so for us in general, you just got to keep working through the mistakes. It’s easy to come up here and keep saying that, keep working, keep working, fans don’t want to hear keep working, but that’s what this is. You show up day in and day out for a collective goal. It’s not just going to happen overnight, so I continue to have faith in the system that we’re building and in the people that are in this building with us.”
Myles Turner: “I really rock with Taylor (Jenkins), who he is as a person and what he stands for as a coach. The accountability aspects have been unbelievable. He holds everybody to the same standard no matter who the player is, and he just demands our focus and our energy on such a high level every single day. He doesn’t stand for any lackadaisical nonsense, and he came in here and has really been a fun drill sergeant to say the least.”
Myles Turner: “It’s been dope, man. I really rock with Taylor [Jenkins], you know, who he is as a person and what he stands for as a coach. The accountability aspects have been unbelievable, you know. He holds everybody to the same standard, no matter who the player is, and he just demands our focus and our energy on such a high-level every single day. He doesn’t stand for any lackadaisical nonsense. He’s came in here and he’s really been… I’m not going to say a drill sergeant, but you know, he’s been a fun drill sergeant to say the least. But it’s been fun. You know, I think just for me, it’s just about continuing to be a leader, and again, finding ways to impact winning.”
Myles Turner: “Darvin Ham has such a great quote after practice the other day, you know, I live downtown and you know, I respect the people, you know, who are out there working construction, it is so loud, you know what I mean? But, you know, those guys are literally out there busting concrete for damn near minimum wage, and we are expected to come out here, keep ourselves in shape, and, you know, play basketball to make the checks that we make. So, I try to keep that perspective no matter where I am at.”
Most of the Pacers' core is the same -- Haliburton, Siakam, Nembhard and Aaron Nesmith -- but Ivica Zubac was brought in to replace the departed Myles Turner in a trade deadline deal that ended up costing Indiana the No. 5 pick in the draft. Team sources say the Pacers are confident that the deal will help reopen their championship window. They also acknowledge Zubac, who plays closer to the basket, will provide different strengths than Turner, a center who stretches the floor from 3-point range. "We have a great coach who figures things out," Buchanan told ESPN. "That's a strength of his. If things aren't going well, and we aren't playing well -- or [Zubac's] not fitting well, he adapts."
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NBA Trade Machine: Jarred Vanderbilt was part of 7.3% of the trades built on HoopsMatic over the past 24 hours. Of those trades, his top destinations were Dallas (55.2%), Milwaukee (7.8%), and Miami (4.3%). The most common players sent back for him were PJ Washington (55.2%), Derrick Jones (6.9%), and Myles Turner (6.9%).
Jim Owczarski: Kyle Kuzma: Said last year's team pointed fingers at one another and "that's a recipe for disaster." He said the early going on this team has "buy in." Everyone showed up in Milwaukee on Sept. 8, referenced the offseason trip to Myles Turner's home in Austin, etc.
Per league sources, the Sacramento Kings and Milwaukee Bucks are known to be among the teams with serious interest in Duren. Both teams have veteran big men with strong resumes who could potentially fill the hole left by Duren in a deal (the Kings’ Domantas Sabonis and the Bucks’ Myles Turner), but the Pistons have refused to engage in talks on that front for months now. Per league sources, Duren believes he could land a maximum-salary deal next summer and eventually make up the money lost next season over the course of the next five years.
Former Euless Trinity basketball star Myles Turner is giving back to the school district that helped him reach the NBA. The Milwaukee Bucks center announced on X that he has pledged $2 million over the next 20 years to the Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD athletic department. It will help every middle school and both high schools in the district.
Mike Vorkunov: Myles Turner has been elected as a VP on the NBPA Executive Committee. He replaced Garrett Temple, who retired. This is now the full NBPA executive committee: • Fred VanVleet, President • Grant Williams, First Vice President • Mason Plumlee, Secretary-Treasurer • Karl-Anthony Towns, Vice President • Santi Aldama, Vice President • Jaylen Brown, Vice President • Trey Murphy III, Vice President • Myles Turner, Vice President • Gabe Vincent, Vice President
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Sam Yip: The NBPA announced that Myles Turner has been elected a vice president of its Executive Committee. He replaces Garrett Temple, who retired after last season. Temple had served as a Vice President on the NBPA's Executive Committee since 2017.
The new Trinity Arena in the Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District officially became Myles Turner Fieldhouse on Monday after Milwaukee Bucks center Myles Turner signed a sponsorship and pledge agreement with the district. According to the district’s Facebook post, Turner also handed a $2 million investment to the HEB ISD Education Foundation. A volunteer board runs the foundation. The post did not say how the $2 million will be paid out or how long the name stays on the building. HEB ISD voters approved a 2023 bond to rebuild Trinity, maintaining the campus’s “high school on a hill” character. Phase 1 included a new competition gym, expected to take about 15 months. Students could access the new athletic areas by mid-August 2026, with Phase 2 adding classrooms, cafeteria, and admin spaces.
Jokic was simply asked to clarify who is the best defender against him in the NBA. Serbian center shortly said "Everyone," before naming a full list of different players: "Everyone. Some teams defend very well as a unit, while others have excellent individual defenders. Zubac guards me really well, and so does Nurkic. I guess they’re just bulkier, so I can’t move them when we’re battling for position," he said. "I think Rudy Gobert is a great defender, even though I’ve historically played well against him. Jalen Duren, he’s undersized but tricky. Wendell Carter Jr. is also on the shorter side, and Myles Turner blocks a lot of shots. There’s no need to even talk about Wembanyama. They’re all good; the league is talented on both ends of the floor."
Myles Turner: "The first person that pops in my head is obviously Victor Wembanyama. The reason I say this is not just because of his basketball talent, it's because the way he represents himself, the things he does off the floor, the person that he becomes. As an NBA representative, you have to be a humanitarian. You have to be someone that is highly marketable, someone that is recognizable, but also someone that doesn't have much drama off the floor. Wembanyama has done an amazing job of keeping his family first."
