FA: Myles Turner Goes to MIL?? | 4yrs/107mil

[SleepingHero]

Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania)
BREAKING: Free agent center Myles Turner has agreed to a four-year, $107 million deal with the Milwaukee Bucks, plus a player option for year four in 2028-29 and a full 15% trade kicker, sources tell ESPN. Stunner.

[SleepingHero]

@ShamsCharania
Turner, the longest tenured Pacer, made it known he wished to remain in Indiana. Since the Game 7 exit, Turner’s reps pushed to get a deal done. Ultimately, Indiana’s aversion to the tax, which grew after Tyrese Haliburton’s injury, allowed Bucks to get the new franchise center.

[SleepingHero]

@ShamsCharania
Bucks GM Jon Horst and CAA Co-Head of Basketball Austin Brown partnered on executing a massive deal in a market scarce of salary cap space during the opening days of free agency. Milwaukee retools aggressively around Giannis Antetokounmpo again.

[omahen]

Wow. This is a huge surprise. What did Milwaukee send to Indy or elsewhere to make it happen? How will Indy solve the center problem they suddenly have?

[SleepingHero]

@JakeLFischer
There is certainly more dust to settle from Myles Turner landing in Milwaukee, as ESPN reports. I’m being told the big man wanted to remain with the Pacers, who he helped lead to the Finals, but Indiana’s offers for Turner never truly exceeded the three-year, $60 million range.

[SleepingHero]

Wow. This is a huge surprise. What did Milwaukee send to Indy or elsewhere to make it happen? How will Indy solve the center problem they suddenly have?

I think they are going to cut salary and go cheap. And Ayton is right there for the taking.

[HoosierDaddyKid]

I think they are going to cut salary and go cheap. And Ayton is right there for the taking.

Bucks just stretch waived Dame to sign Turner

[SleepingHero]

@YossiGozlan
The Milwaukee Bucks will have the $8.8 million room mid-level exception after.

Kevin Porter Jr. and Gary Trent Jr. likely get signed with it. Their terms fit in the exception.

Taurean Prince can be signed afterward since it's a minimum.

[SleepingHero]

Bucks just stretch waived Dame to sign Turner

22.5 mil of deadspace a year for FIVE years for this move. 

Insane by MIL

[Jym]

Bucks just stretch waived Dame to sign Turner

whatttt
I thought you were kidding but just saw the Shams bomb

[SleepingHero]

Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania)
Just in: The Milwaukee Bucks are waiving Damian Lillard and stretching the remaining $113 million on his contract in order to acquire Myles Turner, sources tell ESPN. Lillard's two seasons in Milwaukee come to an end as he rehabilitates a torn Achilles tendon.

[cow]

Even if they are sad to see him go, I'd guess the Pacers FO are happy to not pay Myles.

[FireNicoHarrison]

Crazy move by Mil, they really feared to lose Giannis.

[omahen]

Even if they are sad to see him go, I'd guess the Pacers FO are happy to not pay Myles.

Why??? The contract Milwaukee gave him is not attrociously high. They were one win away from winning it all and they just let their starting center walk. Good luck replacing him.

[cow]

Why??? The contract Milwaukee gave him is not attrociously high. They were one win away from winning it all and they just let their starting center walk. Good luck replacing him.

Not atrociously high, but too rich for my blood and seemingly for Indy's blood too.  He had few defensive sequences in that series that were important, but he was pretty bad otherwise (offensively, rebounding).  I'd argue Toppin was Indiana's most impactful big in the series.

[HoosierDaddyKid]

https://x.com/BobbyMarks42/status/1940076243728441647


This is a stunning blow to the Eastern Conference Champs.

[cow]

https://x.com/BobbyMarks42/status/1940076243728441647


This is a stunning blow to the Eastern Conference Champs.

No Hali next season so maybe this is an organic tank for the season.

[HoosierDaddyKid]

From John Hollinger. This is why I criticized the Pacers for taking Andrew Nembhard's salary from $2 million to $18 million for 2025-26 when they didn't have to in his extension last summer. It set the Pacers up to be way into the luxury tax, and you know when it came down to it that Indiana would blink rather than pay it.

Keeping Myles Turner on the books for this year at $24 million would have been no sweat if Nembhard was still on his cheap rookie deal, but the Pacers turned the final year of it into a much bigger salary. That extension looked extravagant at the time — $56 million in new money for just two years — and despite Nembhard's playoff heroics, the Pacers are paying the price for it now

[Chicagojk]

From John Hollinger.  This is why I criticized the Pacers for taking Andrew Nembhard's salary from $2 million to $18 million for 2025-26 when they didn't have to in his extension last summer. It set the Pacers up to be way into the luxury tax, and you know when it came down to it that Indiana would blink rather than pay it.

Keeping Myles Turner on the books for this year at $24 million would have been no sweat if Nembhard was still on his cheap rookie deal, but the Pacers turned the final year of it into a much bigger salary. That extension looked extravagant at the time — $56 million in new money for just two years — and despite Nembhard's playoff heroics, the Pacers are paying the price for it now

I get it.  It is a business.   On the other hand, for everything he did he earned that contract.  And continued to earn it.   I get what he is saying but there is a human factor in it as well.   You treat your core guys well.   Maybe I am off, but just my thoughts.  Hopefully if Haliburtan did not get hurt, Indy would have paid the tax like was reported.  The injury obviously changed a ton of things.

[DallasMaverick]

I think it’s an overpay for MIL.

Dame’s stretch-waive really hurts, too.

Was it desperation? Demanded by Giannis?

Is Turner really much better than Lopez?