Are Any Of The Myles Turner Trade Scenarios Realistic?
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As the NBA trade deadline approaches, one Indiana Pacer keeps getting floated as a potential target for other teams.
That would be Myles Turner, now in his 10th year with Indiana. Despite the fact that the Pacers are on a recent hot streak and are playing their best overall ball of the season, Turner’s name keeps getting floated as a possibility before the deadline passes on February 6th. Turner himself has been playing well, but he will be a free agent this offseason, and there are questions about if the Pacers will be able to match what he’s asking for. Could that lead to the Pacers trying to get some return on him this season?
During the Thursday edition of The Ride With JMV, Dustin Dopirak from the IndyStar joined the show, and spoke about if there was any credibility to any of the proposed trade scenarios involving Turner.
“Marc Stein and Jake Fischer I think do a pretty good job with the Stein Line, and Marc had a pretty kind of in-depth, not necessarily attributing it to anybody in particular…reporting on where he sees this at this point, and I think this is pretty accurate. He just said basically [that] they don’t want to move him. They’re aware obviously that the contract is coming to the end, and so they’re taking people’s calls, but it’s basically like there’s a high bar here. You’ve got to really knock their socks off because they view it as they’re winning, he’s a key component to this whole thing. He’s unique, he fits Tyrese Haliburton a certain way, he fits Pascal Siakam in a certain way… He’s picked his shot-block rate up from last year. He’s a key piece, and obviously they’re going to have to spend a lot of money to keep him…they’re certainly going to get into the luxury tax, it’s likely going to get them up to that first apron, but all the same, who are you going to get that’s better? In their view, they’ve got to at least get a starting-level center, and more stuff if they’re going to think about moving this, and I think they really don’t want to.
Listen to JMV’s full conversation with Dustin Dopirak of the IndyStar down below, and tune into The Ride With JMV weekdays from 3-6pm on 93.5/107.5 The Fan!
