{"id":69177,"date":"2025-06-01T00:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T00:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/69177\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T00:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T00:50:11","slug":"pacers-myles-turner-to-be-pursued-by-east-rival-in-free-agency-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/69177\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers Myles Turner to Be Pursued by East Rival in Free Agency: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pacers Myles Turner to Be Pursued by East Rival in Free Agency: Report<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Indiana Pacers star big man Myles Turner is on the brink of reaching the NBA Finals for the first time in his career, which may not be that much of a surprise. But what is a surprise is that Turner is hoping to do so with the very team that drafted him back in 2015.<\/p>\n

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Yes, Turner has been in the NBA for a decade now and, despite having been the focal point of trade rumors for at least half of those years, he is still a member of the Pacers. But he’s heading into a strange spot–despite averaging 15.6 points and 2.0 blocked shots, and despite shooting a career-high 39.6% from the 3-point line, Turner is about to be a full-fledged NBA free agent.<\/p>\n

In a lot of years, that would be a good thing, especially as Turner is now bona fide as one of the best-shooting big men in the NBA. But this summer, with cap space being at a premium, Turner will be hard-pressed to find a suitor presenting an option outside of a return to the Pacers.<\/p>\n

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Indiana Pacers center Myles Turner (33) controls the rebound against New York Knicks guard Josh Hart (3). Mandatory Credit&colon; Wendell Cruz-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Enter one of the team’s old rivals: the Pistons.<\/p>\n

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While looking at Detroit’s desire to add a floor-spacing big man this summer, veteran NBA reporter Marc Stein notes that Turner–in addition to Minnesota’s Naz Reid–will be a top target.<\/p>\n

Stein wrote on Saturday: “Detroit is known to covet a floor-spacing big man and, according to sources, is likewise said to hold interest in Indiana’s Myles Turner<\/a>. Whether the Pistons have a tangible shot at acquiring either player, mind you, is far from clear.”<\/p>\n

Turner is widely expected to re-sign with the Pacers, even if it means Indiana going into the luxury tax, which Stein notes, it has not done since the tax’s advent in 2005.<\/p>\n

Turner is in the final year of a two-year, $41 million contract with the Pacers. He is still only 29 years old, and will require a significant raise to keep him in place.<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on May 31, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pacers Myles Turner to Be Pursued by East Rival in Free Agency: Report originally appeared on Athlon Sports.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,296,113,126,3866,327,307,367,6,191,114,297,2957],"class_list":{"0":"post-69177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indiana-pacers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-indiana","11":"tag-indiana-pacers","12":"tag-indianapacers","13":"tag-josh-hart","14":"tag-minnesota","15":"tag-myles-turner","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-new-york-knicks","18":"tag-pacers","19":"tag-pistons","20":"tag-the-pacers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114605367359238246","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}