<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #333333;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px;    font-size: 18px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: #333333;    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px;    font-size: 16px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: #0000FF;    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 16px;    text-decoration: none;}ul {    color: #333333;    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 16px;}ol {    color: #333333;    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: #333333;    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px;    font-size: 16px;    border-left: 2px solid black;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: #333333;    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 12px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;    background-color: #EFEFEF;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article><header><figure><img src="https://clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Screenshot-2021-09-21-171919.png"></figure><h1>Myles Turner on his ‘Welcome to the NBA’ moment for Pacers with DeMarcus Cousins</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2021-09-21T18:55:28-07:00">September 21st, 6:55pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2021-09-21T18:56:00-07:00">September 21st, 6:56pm</time><address><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@markhaynesnba?lang=en">Mark Haynes</a>Mark Haynes is an NBA beat reporter covering the Golden State Warriors for ClutchPoints. He also hosts a YouTube series, Year 1 by ClutchPoints, where he interviews professional athletes about their rookie season.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Basketball has a ton of hidden rules that players all over the world follow. For example, when players make a shot, the rebounder has to give them their change by passing it back to them. Hidden rules don’t end once players make it to the NBA. More hidden rules are added once pros begin their NBA journey. Just ask Myles Turner of the Indiana Pacers and pro hoops veteran DeMarcus Cousins.</p><p>As soon as a rookie checks in a game for the first time, he quickly learns a new unspoken NBA rule. That rule is to find the rookie and go at him. Opposing players try to pick on you nightly because you are a rookie, and highlights are bound to happen. That’s when you get your welcome to the NBA moment.</p><p>Indiana Pacers star Myles Turner joined ClutchPoints Year 1 YouTube series to discuss his <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/sports/nba/indiana-pacers/news">welcome to the NBA moment.</a></p><figure class="op-interactive"></figure><blockquote>“Yeah, I remember <a href="https://youtu.be/CLSQmadgS2w">like it was yesterday.</a> I just put up my career-high (31 points) in Golden State,” Turner told ClutchPoints.</blockquote><p>Sometimes a rookie’s welcome to the NBA moment is a good memory. When Myles Turner scored 31 points in his rookie season against the defending champion Golden State Warriors, one would normally expect that achievement to make a man feel on top of the world. Then the high of this moment quickly evaporated when something unexpected happens the next night.</p><p>Myles Turner tells the story.</p><blockquote>“The very next night, we go to Sacramento to play, and I’m playing against prime Demarcus Cousins, and this is the Boogie that was in the post. People are accustom to the one shooting threes and with the handles. He was doing that a little, but he was straight low-post Demarcus Cousins at that point, Turner shared. “Bro was just abusing me. I think he probably put up 45. It might have been a 50 point game, but there was nothing I could do. There was not one thing I could do to stop him. You go from the high of scoring your career-high to low of just getting absolutely dominated. I legit looked at the coach in a timeout and said I don’t know what to do.”</blockquote><p>A rookie season is full of ups and downs, and you need the ability to develop short-term memory. Myles Turner moved on nicely from this set of back-to-back games like a true professional.</p><p>He’s now entering his seventh season with the Pacers and has become one of the NBA’s best defenders. Even though that game in Sacramento was a long time ago, Myles Turner will never forget that night against DeMarcus Cousins.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Myles Turner on his ‘Welcome to the NBA’ moment for Pacers with DeMarcus Cousins

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #333333;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px;    font-size: 18px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: #333333;    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px;    font-size: 16px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: #0000FF;    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 16px;    text-decoration: none;}ul {    color: #333333;    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 16px;}ol {    color: #333333;    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: #333333;    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px;    font-size: 16px;    border-left: 2px solid black;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: #333333;    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 12px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;    background-color: #EFEFEF;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article><header><figure><img src="https://clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Screenshot-2021-09-21-171805.png"></figure><h1>Pacers’ Myles Turner reveals the unexpected motivation he got on NBA Draft night</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2021-09-21T18:00:47-07:00">September 21st, 6:00pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2021-09-21T18:01:51-07:00">September 21st, 6:01pm</time><address><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@markhaynesnba?lang=en">Mark Haynes</a>Mark Haynes is an NBA beat reporter covering the Golden State Warriors for ClutchPoints. He also hosts a YouTube series, Year 1 by ClutchPoints, where he interviews professional athletes about their rookie season.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>At the NBA draft, players instantly earn labels from the media. Players can be the perfect selection, a steal, or they can view prospects as the wrong pick. It’s the first of many narratives to come. Many times the evaluation of rookies is inaccurate. The job of an NBA analyst can be challenging. Each year in the draft, you’re going to be <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/sports/nba/indiana-pacers/news">wrong about something. </a>On the ClutchPoints YouTube series Year 1 with Mark Haynes, Indiana Pacers center Myles Turner talked about his <a href="https://youtu.be/CLSQmadgS2w">draft night critics.</a></p><figure class="op-interactive"></figure><blockquote>“It might have been CBS Sports. They wrote an article about how they graded everybody’s draft, and they gave the Pacers a D- for picking me. That stuck with me D-. You remember stuff like that,” Myles Turner told ClutchPoints.</blockquote><p>Players often take notes when noticing negative comments. Even late in their career, the annoyance with opinions still can get under players’ skin. We’ve learned that with Golden State Warriors veteran Draymond Green. He is still one of those guys. He made a list of people who doubted the U.S. basketball team’s chances of winning gold and even took screenshots to document the disrespect.</p><blockquote>“I remember during the draft, I watched a recording of it. It was Jay Bilas and a couple of other guys,” Turner continued. “They were just surprised quote unquote that they (Pacers) took me. They were talking about, ‘oh, I thought the Pacers were going to take a guard.’ It wasn’t like this is what Myles brings to the table.”</blockquote><p>Myles Turner was the 11th pick in the 2015 draft. He believed he would be a top-five pick. Teams told him they were taking him in that range. As names came off the board and Turner’s name wasn’t called, he was nervous.</p><p>Players in the past received invites to the green room and ended up dropping out of the lottery. Myles Turner could have been that next player, but once the Pacers selected him, that possibility ended.</p><p>When asked about the teams who passed on him, Myles Turner said, “That’s one thing I did take personally.”</p><p>Being drafted sooner would mean more money and maybe a few business opportunities, but now the Texas native was officially in the NBA.</p><p>“I wasn’t too concerned about it. I got drafted. My family is secure, and I figured everything out that I needed to,” Turner said.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Pacers’ Myles Turner reveals the unexpected motivation he got on NBA Draft night

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #333333;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px;    font-size: 18px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: #333333;    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px;    font-size: 16px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: #0000FF;    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 16px;    text-decoration: none;}ul {    color: #333333;    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 16px;}ol {    color: #333333;    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: #333333;    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px;    font-size: 16px;    border-left: 2px solid black;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: #333333;    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 12px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;    background-color: #EFEFEF;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article><header><figure><img src="https://clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Screenshot-2021-09-21-171602.png"></figure><h1>Pacers’ Myles Turner talks NBA Draft, rookie year, blocking LeBron, and more</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2021-09-21T17:53:00-07:00">September 21st, 5:53pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2021-09-21T17:53:41-07:00">September 21st, 5:53pm</time><address><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@markhaynesnba?lang=en">Mark Haynes</a>Mark Haynes is an NBA beat reporter covering the Golden State Warriors for ClutchPoints. He also hosts a YouTube series, Year 1 by ClutchPoints, where he interviews professional athletes about their rookie season.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Players have to earn respect in the NBA. If they aren’t respected, they will be a target opposing teams pick on. Since he was a rookie, Indiana Pacers big man Myles Turner has received a ton of respect from peers; from the media, not as much as he believes he deserves.</p><p>In a recent interview on ClutchPoints’ <a href="https://youtu.be/CLSQmadgS2w">YouTube series Year 1</a> with Mark Haynes, Turner talked about his rookie draft night, his block on LeBron James, the highs and lows of that season, and more.</p><figure class="op-interactive"></figure><p><b>Q. Mark Haynes:</b> Do you remember anything that was said about you during the draft?</p><p><b>A. Myles Turner:</b> It might have been CBS Sports. They wrote an article about how they graded everybody’s draft, and they gave the Pacers a D minus for picking me. That stuck with me, a D minus. You remember stuff like that.</p><p><b>Q. Mark Haynes:</b> Did you use that as a little bit of a chip on your shoulder?</p><p><b>A. Myles Turner:</b> Every team that passed on me, I made a focal point that season, even the following season, to at those certain teams. It’s cliche you hear a lot about people doing that, but that’s one thing I did take personally teams that told me at the draft they were going to take you, then they ultimately flake in the end. In, It gives me something to play for like I needed any more motivation.</p><p><b>Q. Mark Haynes:</b> Your rookie season, you had one of your biggest blocks against LeBron James. Can you tell me about that moment?</p><p><b>A. Myles Turner:</b> It was like my first quote-unquote viral moment. That’s when I had everybody back home hitting me up like yo that just happened. I had a lot of eyes and attention on me at the time. When you first come into the league, you crave that in a sense. You crave that attention. You want to be known, so it was one of the things that kind of put me on the map, but the actual moment itself like, I knew it was going to end up on SportsCenter one way or the other, I was going to block it, or I was going to get dunked on. There’s a certain fearlessness that you have to have on the defensive side of things. I’m a shot blocker, and it’s one of the things I’ve always done. I just went out there and let the chips fall where they may.</p><p><b>Q. Mark Haynes:</b> You are one of the best defensive players in the league. Do you feel you just don’t get the acknowledgment?</p><p><b>A. Myles Turner:</b> I think it’s one of the things that, even if it’s not the Defensive Player of the Year, it’s at least the all-defensive team with what I’ve done. People talk about you just block shots. That couldn’t be further from the truth. I’m one of the better pick and roll defenders in the game, and I guard the perimeter, I defend, guards out to the perimeter as well. Teams don’t make it a focal point to switch on me. They’ll try to pick on somebody else because they know I can move my feet, and I block shots and recover. I at least average a steal a game, but there’s more stuff that I’m doing that doesn’t get the acknowledgment that it deserves, or you would have never seen if you’ve never watched me play. That’s the problem. We have these media members, they see all these ESPN games, and they see all these TNT games. Indiana Pacers aren’t on ESPN and TNT. We maybe get two, maybe three games a year on national TV. So they’ve never seen me play. They only see the box score. They don’t get to see the advanced stats. You don’t get to see this talented defensive player every day. You only get to hear word of mouth only get to see one or two games a year.</p><p><b>Q. Mark Haynes:</b> Do you remember what you felt like was you welcome to the NBA moment?</p><p><b>A. Myles Turner:</b> Yeah, I remember like it was yesterday. I just put up my career-high (31) in Golden State. The very next night, we go to Sacramento to play, and I’m playing against prime Demarcus Cousins, and this is the Boogie that was in the post. People are accustom to the one shooting threes and the handles. He was doing that a little, but he was straight post Demarcus Cousins at that point. Bro was just abusing me. I think he probably put up 45. It might have been a 50 point game, but there was nothing I could do. There was not one thing I could do to stop him. You go from the high of scoring your career-high to low of just getting absolutely dominated. I legit looked at the coach in a timeout and said I didn’t know what to do.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Pacers’ Myles Turner talks NBA Draft, rookie year, blocking LeBron, and more

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #333333;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px;    font-size: 18px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: #333333;    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px;    font-size: 16px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: #0000FF;    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 16px;    text-decoration: none;}ul {    color: #333333;    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 16px;}ol {    color: #333333;    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: #333333;    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px;    font-size: 16px;    border-left: 2px solid black;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: #333333;    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 12px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;    background-color: #EFEFEF;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article><header><figure><img src="https://clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Screenshot-2021-09-21-173559.png"></figure><h1>Pacers’ Myles Turner opens up on viral block of LeBron James</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2021-09-21T17:43:26-07:00">September 21st, 5:43pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2021-09-21T17:44:16-07:00">September 21st, 5:44pm</time><address><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@markhaynesnba?lang=en">Mark Haynes</a>Mark Haynes is an NBA beat reporter covering the Golden State Warriors for ClutchPoints. He also hosts a YouTube series, Year 1 by ClutchPoints, where he interviews professional athletes about their rookie season.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>LeBron James knows that Indiana Pacers star Myles Turner is one of the best shot blockers in the NBA. The 25-year-old has led the league in blocks twice during his six-year career. Out of 921 career blocks, a block from Turner’s rookie year <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/sports/nba/indiana-pacers/news">stands out the most.</a></p><p><a href="https://clutchpoints.com/sports/nba/indiana-pacers/news">In an exclusive interview</a> with ClutchPoints, Myles Turner talked about his <a href="https://youtu.be/CLSQmadgS2w">highlight block against</a> LeBron James.</p><figure class="op-interactive"></figure><blockquote>“It was my first quote-unquote viral moment. I had everybody back at home hitting me up like <i>yo,</i> <i>that just happened</i>,” Turner told ClutchPoints.</blockquote><p>When the Pacers drafted Turner, he inherited an ongoing rivalry with James. Time and time again, the Pacers were eliminated in the playoffs by one of James’ teams. Blocking him the way he did in this regular-season match showed the world Myles Turner was the real deal.</p><blockquote>“When you first come into the league, you crave that in a sense. You crave that attention. You want to be known. It was one of the things that put me on the map,” Turner said about the block.</blockquote><p>When James is coming at defenders full speed, players usually move out the way. Not the rookie from Texas. He had no intention of moving. Instead, Myles Turner scheduled a meeting between himself, James, and the rim.</p><blockquote>“I knew it was going to end up on SportsCenter one way or the other. I was going to block it, or I was going to get dunked on,” Turner told ClutchPoints. “There’s a certain fearlessness that you have to have on the defensive side of things. I’m a shot blocker. It’s one of the things I’ve always done. I just went out there and let the chips fall where they may.”</blockquote><p>It was a situation where nobody would blame him for allowing James to dunk. Myles Turner made the decision not to tolerate it. It set the tone for his career. It made a statement that it wouldn’t be any easy dunks on his watch. Today that message is still understood loud and clear.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Pacers’ Myles Turner opens up on viral block of LeBron James

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He also hosts a YouTube series, Year 1 by ClutchPoints, where he interviews professional athletes about their rookie season.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Indiana Pacers center Myles Turner led the NBA in blocks for the second time this season. With a career-high 3.4 blocks per game. He’s one of the league’s most prominent defenders, but he’s only looked at as a <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/sports/nba/indiana-pacers/news">rim protector.</a></p><p>In an exclusive interview with ClutchPoints, Turner opened up about being <a href="https://youtu.be/CLSQmadgS2w">overlooked defensively.</a></p><figure class="op-interactive"></figure><p>Not only did Myles Turner lead the NBA in blocks, but he did while averaging 0.9 steals. Nearly one takeaway per game for the big man.</p><p>It was the second time in his career averaging that amount. After outdoing the 2020-21 Defensive Player of the Year Rudy Gobert in blocks and steals, Myles Turner failed to make an all-defensive team.</p><blockquote>“If it’s not the Defensive Player of the Year, it’s at least the all-defensive team with what I’ve done. People say I just block shots, and that couldn’t be further from the truth. I’m one of the better pick-and-roll defenders in the game, and I guard the perimeter. Teams don’t make it a focal point to switch on me. They’ll try to pick on somebody else because they know I can move my feet. I can recover and block shots. I average a steal a game, but there’s more stuff that I’m doing that doesn’t get the acknowledgment that it deserves. You would’ve never seen if you had never watched me play. That’s the problem.”</blockquote><p>Small market teams have a tough time getting their stars the recognition they deserve. It’s one of the reasons players decide to leave for bigger markets during free agency, an issue the NBA has been trying to fix for some time.</p><p>Myles Turner has two years left under his current contract. The thought of losing the NBA’s leading shot-blocker is not something the Pacers have to worry about yet. Figuring out how to win games and getting their players noticed nationally is the current task. Everyone knows that in basketball and most other endeavors, winning fixes all problems.</p><blockquote>“We have these media members, they see all these ESPN games, and they see all these TNT games. Indiana Pacers aren’t on ESPN and TNT. We maybe get two, maybe three games a year on national TV. So they’ve never seen me play,” Turner told ClutchPoints.</blockquote><p>All players like recognition for their hard work, and playing in a small market shouldn’t penalize players. The truth of the matter is that it does. Not being acknowledged can keep players from making All-Star appearances, getting awards, collecting endorsements, and more.</p><blockquote>“They only see the box score. They (media) don’t get to see the advanced stats, Turner said. “You don’t get to see this talented defensive player every day. You only get to hear word of mouth only get to see one or two games a year.”</blockquote><p>Myles Turner understands the uphill battle he faces when going after his goals. He uses it as fuel to be better and better each season.</p><p>Turner is constantly in the gym trying to perfect his craft. You can catch him on Instagram training in gyms with no air conditioning, pushing himself to the limit. Although he has already proved to be a good player in this league, he knows the world hasn’t seen the best version of himself. That reality motivates him to keep going.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Pacers’ Myles Turner speaks out on not getting defensive recognition

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Top - April 280 lbs 14% Body Fat 
Bottom - September 255 lbs 8.5%  Body Fat
Off Season Well Spent 💪🏾 

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I sure did miss y’all Indy but damn what’s up with all this construction everywhere 😮‍💨🥴

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Man on the real I can’t wait to play in full capacity arenas again 🔥 been looking forward to it

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✨Unpopular opinion ✨ 
Call Me If You Get Lost…. 
Still Album Of The Year 📞😬

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S/o to Nate McMillan…
couldn’t be happier for em that’s dope as hell! ✊🏾

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I could watch @Arike_O and @kaymac_2123 go back and forth all day this Matchup odeee in person 😭 🔥

2020-21 SEASON STATS
PTS	REB	AST	BLK	STL
12.6	6.5	1.0	3.4	0.9

2020-21 SEASON STATS
PTS	REB	AST	BLK	STL
12.6	6.5	1.0	3.4	0.9

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