NBA Report: Los Angeles Lakers finally sign veteran star Myles Turner for a of $45.8 million…
The Indiana Pacers had a very successful 2023-24 campaign, as they got back to the NBA Playoffs, and navigated their way to the Eastern Conference Finals before losing to the Boston Celtics by way of sweep.
Even with the games being mostly very close. Indiana was led by a high-octane offense largely driven by the playmaking of Tyrese Haliburton, and in turn, the Pacers had one of the league’s top offenses.
Indiana is a club that’s going to get up and down, and they have a deep group that can get contributions from a variety of sources around Haliburton. The Pacers would be in the right to try to re-sign mid-season trade acquisition Pascal Siakam, along those lines, too, given what he gave Indiana in the regular season and playoffs.
Something that also had to have resonated within the Pacers fan base, though, was how Myles Turner put his stamp on the season. He made his presence felt in a big way for Indiana, and it’s evident that he means a ton to the team.
Turner has been with Indiana for a while, since the 2015-16 season, and despite him constantly being involved in trade rumors leading into the year, it seemed, he responded well. That carried over into the playoffs, too.
He’s long been a capable perimeter shooter, but he’s come on more in the past two seasons in that area. In this last campaign, Turner connected on 35.8 percent of his three-point attempts, on what amounted to 4.2 per game.
His fit with Haliburton in recent seasons has been terrific, and Turner’s chemistry with others such as Andrew Nembhard seemingly got better and better as the season wore on. And that should only improve from here.
