[The Athletic] The Pacers’ offer to Myles Turner never stretched above three years or $20 million per season. Indiana decided that it didn’t want to “overpay” for Turner after initially signaling a willingness to pay the luxury tax as the offseason neared.

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1. interesting note from the piece:

   > said the Pacers source, who added that the team doesn’t plan to tank next year with Haliburton sidelined

2. Kyle Kuzma makes more than that. Kyle. Kuzma.

3. Get ready to learn Isaiah Jackson

4. If they were serious, resigning Turner while brining in Lonzo to be the Haliburton role would have been perfect

5. For the most part, my personal opinion is that the Pacers’ ownership is using Haliburton’s injury as an excuse to be cheap immediately after making bank by getting to the NBA Finals (and stretching to all seven games).

6. The new financial rules to prevent super teams simply worked too well. A lot of people predicted this. It’s been frustrating that homegrown championship caliber teams can’t stay together.

   Obviously the Hali injury played a huge factor in this decision. But I imagine that in the old days, they’d have paid up here.

7. what being mediocre against the best defense in the nba does to a mf

8. Still don’t know how I feel about this. If it were up to me, I would have resigned him, but I can see where they’re coming from. Offensively, he was massively disappointing in the playoffs, and he gets eaten alive on the boards.

   But it’s damn near impossible to replicate his skillset. As a stretch big who can run the floor like he can…it’s pretty much just him and no one else. I really wanted us to run it back so we can see how the team looks when we give Nemby the keys. Now it might be tough to gauge how much Nemby and Mathurin contribute to winning as the main guys if we don’t have any big men whatsoever to hold the fort down defensively.

9. Never going above 20mil is an insult to turner

10. Slap in the face to Turner to offer so far below market value

11. Indiana’s been smarter than just about everyone the last few years. I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt.

12. Disrespectful is the only way to describe that offer seriously wtf Indy

13. Herb Simon is such a cheap motherfucker man

14. That’s Daniel Gafford money.

15. Had Hali not popped his Achilles, I’m sure they pay him.

16. Isn’t the Bucks paying him just a few more millions. Why not re-sign Turner then trade him mid season and get under the tax limit while getting some assets in return.

17. They’re about to give Ayton $18M/year or something

18. Other “team sources” have said 4/95 so someone is lying or misinformed.

19. Someone please explain to me what they think Myles Turner will be in 2 years. This has nothing to do with being cheap and has everything to do with the Pacers window shifting outside of Myles’ timeline. 7 minutes into Game 7, Myles Turner’s new contract was shredded alongside Haliburton’s Achilles. This was a coup for Indiana. We avoided locking in a deteriorating center into a deal that handicaps them in 2028. Myles Turner’s VORP since 2020; .9, 1.1, 1.9, 1.5, 1.3. Trend isn’t great and the defense that he really built his career on is deteriorating.

    I love Myles. I’ll always love Myles. He no longer fit with Indiana’s timeline. To sign him would have been to continue with our standard ways of clawing our way to a 6 seed with no viable path to playoff success and hoping for the best. Now we can afford to keep ALL of the young guys and let them develop with major minutes while limping to a 30 win season and having a quality draft pick going into Haliburton’s return season.

20. You don’t plant to tank but you didn’t even try to resign your 3rd best player because he didn’t go to the nuggets or clippers 😂 yeah makes a ton of sense 🙄

21. There are so many conflicting reports about this contract.

22. The Haliburton injury obviously changed their plans. They likely won’t be a playoff team next season without him so why pay the luxury tax on a guy like Turner when that 3-4 year window you had with this team is closing.

23. Pacers are laughable. Easily a $25-30 mil per year guy which wouldn’t be an overpay at all.

24. They got to game 7 of the finals… I don’t understand why they’d do this…

25. Pacers preparing to tank?

26. But they wanted two first from the Lakers

27. rofl they offered him Vucevic money?

28. Pacers fans giving this ownership the benefit of the doubt is weird. They have never paid the tax.

29. Robert Sarver levels of cheap

30. I was not familiar with Indiana game. They are cheap as hell.

31. So its really over for them huh

32. The header of this post is outdated and doesn’t match the actual quote in the article.

    >However, Indiana was already facing the likelihood next season of playing without Haliburton, who tore his Achilles about seven minutes into Game 7 of the finals, and decided it didn’t want to “overpay” for Turner now, a team source said. The Pacers had signaled a willingness to pay the luxury tax as the offseason neared, but changed that stance in the wake of Haliburton’s injury. A league source said the Pacers’ offer to Turner topped out at around $23 million per year, short of what he got from Milwaukee.

    For a paywalled article that many people aren’t going to read, that’s not an insignificant difference in what is being reported at this time in the updated article.

33. Makes sense. Once Hali went down their strategy shifted.

34. > “It’s a bigger deal because it’s Milwaukee — if Myles had gone to Denver or the Clippers, it would be (perceived) totally different as far as (the Pacers) are concerned.”

    I feel like they’re trying to allude to a “KD to Warriors” perception when in reality it’s instead truly a “….nah, we just didn’t wanna pay him” ordeal. Gotta pay the man. Don’t matter if it’s to a rival or not. Pacers could have paid him but didn’t wanna.