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Myles Turner: "You made it, you are a guy, you are a star from your city, people look up to you. So more and more people are going to be hitting you up. You are on TV every single night. Your cousin's cousin's friend knows you. People haven't talked to in years know you. You have to find a no guy. I think that is so important. It is very easy to become a yes man at this level. So you have to make sure you have your no guy. Someone asks you for money, be like, go talk to this guy right here. Someone asks you to come out to do this appearance, be like, yeah, but you got to go talk to this guy right here."
Sources say that the Bucks have indeed received some trade interest in veteran center Myles Turner in the wake of the Giannis Antetokounmpo blockbuster, but one league source asserted Friday night that Milwaukee is not actively engaged in moving him.
NBA sources I’ve spoken with have connected the Raptors to Bucks centre Myles Turner, with the possibility that Raptors centre Jakob Poeltl, third-year wing Gradey Dick and potentially draft compensation being the core of a deal that would net Toronto the veteran big with credentials as a rim protector and three-point threat.
Myles Turner on dealing with constant NBA trade rumors: "I'm so numb to it now. At the very beginning of my career, I was in a trade rumor every single offseason. I had my bags packed twice. I thought at one point in my career I was going to be traded to Boston for Gordon Hayward and I thought I literally was ready to go and then that fell through at the last second. And then I also thought I was going to be traded to the Lakers for a while. So I'm so numb to it now, if it happens it happens and it's just part of the business."
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Myles Turner: "I've been with my girlfriend for four years now and I tell all the time like my life, my career changed when she into my life. It changed my mindset, it changed my mentality. I had the most success I've had in my career with her by my side."
Myles Turner: "My parents, they're my everything, man. They have supported me through and through no matter what decisions I've made in life and they have helped me immensely. They've exemplified what it means like to be parents and to get me to this level. My mom emptied her retirement fund to fund like my AAU. My dad worked the night shift, so I barely saw him during the day, but if I had a game he would sneak out of work, get someone to cover his shift and watch."
With Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bobby Portis gone, all eyes turn to holdovers Myles Turner and Kyle Kuzma as trade candidates for the Bucks. Turner has always known that if Antetokounmpo was ever traded, he’d be a strong trade candidate, HoopsHype has learned. During his Pacers tenure, Turner was linked to the Hornets, Pelicans, and Lakers in trade rumors at various points. Those teams could all make sense now, and possibly the Celtics. Turner, 30, is still owed $83.55 million, including a player option for the 2028-29 season. Kuzma is on an expiring $20.49 million contract and can help a team with scoring. He shot a career-high 49.2 percent from the field last season.
Yossi Gozlan: Myles Turner feels like a natural trade candidate now. But with the way veterans seem more valued this week post-lottery flattening, perhaps the Bucks keep him to help avoid the relegation zone. Most teams would need to send out $21.6 million to acquire him with his trade bonus.
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Myles Turner: Jalen Brunson always has just been a master of angles, you know what I mean? Even had his height, even had his stature, his center of gravity is real low. Obviously he can get to wherever he wants with his handle or whatnot, but he just reads the floor really well. Like in today's day and age, like a pure point guard is just so hard to come across. there's only a few that are left in the league.
Myles Turner: "These guys are tired. It's just what comes with it. I don't understand what people think when I say tired. It's not just sleepy tired. It's not just like I'm a little fatigued. Mentally, emotionally, you're exhausted, bro. Like, side-to-side movement. People don't realize just, like, basketball is not just a one-dimensional sport where you're sprinting up and down the floor. Like, sliding laterally and what not, playing on different linear planes, that takes a lot out of you."
Run It Back: Bobby Portis responds to Myles Turner saying Giannis was constantly late to the Bucks: "I thought it was AI. ... I think it was over-exaggerated... there ain't that much traffic in Milwaukee!"
Myles Turner: It’s tough because you do have guys who have kind of mastered the manipulation of the game, like the James Hardens of the world, the Shais, and Lukas, and stuff like that. But then you also have guys who play the game very pure. I look at someone like Giannis. What they told him — and who knows if I’m supposed to be saying this or not — is that he doesn’t flop. Giannis is one of very few players in this league who doesn’t flail his body and flop and move around. So he actually doesn’t get foul calls. The fact that he tries to run through people, and the fact that guys are hitting him and he’s not flopping, they won’t call him any fouls, even though he’s getting fouled. So it’s like, do we even know what a real foul is anymore? I don’t know.
