Myles Turner is leaving Indiana after spending his total 10-year profession with the Pacers, in keeping with Shams Charania of ESPN, who reviews (via Twitter) that the veteran middle has reached an settlement on a four-year, $107M take care of the division-rival Bucks.
The contract will embody a fourth-year participant possibility and a 15% commerce kicker, Charania provides.
Based on Charania (Twitter links), Turner made it clear that he needed to re-sign with the Pacers and his brokers tried to get a deal executed with Indiana. Nonetheless, possession was reluctant to pay the posh tax in 2025-26, notably within the wake of Tyrese Haliburton‘s torn Achilles tendon.
Bucks GM Jon Horst labored with agent Austin Brown to safe Turner a nine-figure payday in a market with little cap house out there, per Charania.
Jake Fischer of The Stein Line additionally says (via Twitter) Turner needed to stay with the Pacers, however hears they by no means supplied him greater than $60M over three years.
Turner’s floor-spacing and rim-protecting is considerably just like Brook Lopez, whom the Bucks misplaced to the Clippers in free company. The massive distinction is Turner is 29, eight years youthful than Lopez, and higher matches Giannis Antetokounmpo‘s rivalry timeline.
Stunningly, the Bucks are waiving and stretching
Damian Lillard — who additionally suffered a torn Achilles within the playoffs — to create the cap room essential to signal Turner.
Turner helped the Pacers attain the NBA Finals for the second time in franchise historical past in 2024-25, pushing the heavily-favored Thunder to seven video games earlier than Haliburton’s premature harm within the first quarter of the climactic sequence.
A former lottery decide (No. 11 general in 2015), Turner averaged 15.6 factors, 6.5 rebounds and a couple of.0 blocks on .481/.396/.773 taking pictures in 72 common season video games final season (30.2 MPG). In 23 playoff contests (29.3 MPG), Indiana’s longtime beginning middle averaged 13.8 PPG, 4.8 RPG and a couple of.0 BPG on .484/.344/.771 taking pictures.
That is simply our hypothesis, but it surely’s doable that Indiana may pursue middle Deandre Ayton within the wake of Turner’s departure. The Pacers are the workforce that signed him to a maximum-salary supply sheet three years in the past, and he’ll be a free agent quickly after reaching a buyout with the Path Blazers.
