{"id":735147,"date":"2026-05-15T16:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/735147\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T16:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:06:18","slug":"myles-turner-reveals-extent-of-bucks-mess-giannis-shows-up-whenever-he-wants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/735147\/","title":{"rendered":"Myles Turner reveals extent of Bucks mess: ‘Giannis shows up whenever he wants’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Myles Turner\u2019s loose lips showed just how much of a sinking ship the Milwaukee Bucks were this season \u2014 with Giannis Antetokounmpo at the forefront of it all.<\/p>\n

The Bucks\u2019 star center, signed to a four-year, $108.9 million deal last offseason in a shocking move after the Pacers let him walk, told \u201cGame Recognize Game\u201d podcast<\/a> co-host Breanna Stewart that Milwaukee had many problems under the hood, including tardiness.<\/p>\n

\u201cBro, we literally \u2014 if the plane took off at 2 o\u2019clock, we weren\u2019t leaving until 4:30,\u201d Turner said on the latest podcast. \u201cI\u2019m being so serious, bro. It was crazy. Guys were hours late to the plane. It got to the point where I just knew not to show up until like an hour after they said the plane was taking off. It was crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"MilwaukeeGiannis Antetokounmpo showed up whenever he wanted according to Myles Turner. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n

When Stewart asked who the biggest infringer was, Turner had one name on the tip of his tongue.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s easy: Giannis,\u201d he said. \u201cGiannis is gonna show up whenever he wants really, you know? I think that it kinda just came with the territory. And once I saw what was going down, I was like \u2018Hey, man, more power to you. They ain\u2019t gonna fine you. Do what you do.’\u201d<\/p>\n

When Stewart, star of the WNBA\u2019s Liberty<\/a>, said her new coach Chris DeMarco added a fine system that includes $25 penalties for missed free-throw box-outs, Turner added that now ex-Bucks coach Doc Rivers, who has since retired, \u201cdidn\u2019t fine anyone ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGuys were showing up to film whenever they wanted to show up; guys were missing meetings. It was one of the craziest things I\u2019ve personally ever experienced,\u201d Turner said.<\/p>\n

On other teams, he said, players were fined regularly.<\/p>\n

Taylor Jenkins, the Bucks\u2019 new coach, will need to make changes following a horrific 32-50 regular season.<\/p>\n

Antetokounmpo appears likely to be traded this offseason<\/a>, given the extent of the dysfunction Turner described, as well as public comments from front office executives when the team introduced Jenkins.<\/p>\n

\"MilwaukeeDoc Rivers ran a rudder-less ship according to Myles Turner. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will do what\u2019s best for Giannis and what\u2019s best for the organization,\u201d Bucks co-owner Jimmy Haslam\u00a0said during a press conference to introduce Jenkins. \u201cWe don\u2019t know whether Giannis will stay with us or not, but we\u2019ll work through that with Giannis in the coming weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

The expectation is that a solution to this incoherent situation will be found before the 2026 NBA Draft in June.<\/p>\n

Antetokounmpo has been publicly upset with the franchise that held him out to end the season due to injuries, public stating that he was healthy enough to play.<\/p>\n

His next team odds<\/a> have the Celtics as the primary option to trade for his services, should he be dealt this offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Myles Turner\u2019s loose lips showed just how much of a sinking ship the Milwaukee Bucks were this season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,5441,103,2660,123,102,121,3871,367,6,66,3647],"class_list":["post-735147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-milwaukee-bucks","tag-basketball","tag-breanna-stewart","tag-bucks","tag-doc-rivers","tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-milwaukeebucks","tag-myles-turner","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-sports-media"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116579453136717113","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735147","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=735147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}