Considering the fact that it will be free agent unprotected next summer, that he had declared his love for the Lakers and that he has just changed agents, we imagined him living his last weeks at Indianapolis.
Ultimately, The Athletic tells us that Myles Turner could extend with the Pacersby March 1, 2023, the deadline for the two sides to reach a contractual agreement.
Playing the best basketball of his career this season (16.7 points, 7.8 rebounds and 2.1 blocks on average, 54% on shots and 42% at 3-pts), since he regained his role as a real position 5 without Domantas Sabonis , the 26-year-old pivot would benefit above all to get a very nice salary increase.
Currently paid up to 18 million dollars in 2022/23, Myles Turner could thus receive… 19.1 million additional dollars (!) over this season, to reach this salary maximum of 37.1 million dollars to which he can claim. Why such an increase? Simply because the franchise of theIndiana is $25 million below the salary cap and therefore has “too much” money to spend.
Then, from the 2023/24 financial year, the salary of the 11th choice of the 2015 Draft would automatically return to more “reasonable” heights, if the leaders of the Pacers were obviously not to offer him the max, at the time of this famous re-signature.
In the event of an extension of Myles Turner, yet tracked by the Lakers or the Raptors, this would allow the team to secure the services, in its hard core, of a powerful and still quite young pivot, alongside Tyrese Haliburton. , Bennedict Mathurin and others Jalen Smith. Even Buddy Hield, if he also stayed in Indianapolis.
| Myles Turner | Percentage | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | party | Int | bp | CT | Points |
| 2015-16 | IND | 60 | 23 | 49.8 | 21.4 | 72.7 | 1.1 | 4.4 | 5.5 | 0.7 | 2.6 | 0.4 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 10.3 |
| 2016-17 | IND | 81 | 31 | 51.0 | 34.5 | 80.9 | 1.7 | 5.6 | 7.3 | 1.3 | 3.2 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 2.1 | 14.5 |
| 2017-18 | IND | 65 | 28 | 47.9 | 35.7 | 77.7 | 1.4 | 5.0 | 6.4 | 1.3 | 2.9 | 0.6 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 12.7 |
| 2018-19 | IND | 74 | 29 | 48.7 | 38.8 | 73.6 | 1.4 | 5.8 | 7.2 | 1.6 | 2.6 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 2.7 | 13.3 |
| 2019-20 | IND | 62 | 30 | 45.7 | 34.4 | 75.1 | 1.4 | 5.2 | 6.6 | 1.2 | 2.7 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 12.1 |
| 2020-21 | IND | 47 | 31 | 47.7 | 33.5 | 78.2 | 1.3 | 5.2 | 6.5 | 1.0 | 3.5 | 0.9 | 1.4 | 3.4 | 12.6 |
| 2021-22 | IND | 42 | 29 | 50.9 | 33.3 | 75.2 | 1.6 | 5.5 | 7.1 | 1.1 | 2.8 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 2.8 | 12.9 |
| 2022-23 | IND | 26 | 30 | 54.1 | 41.7 | 76.8 | 1.4 | 6.4 | 7.8 | 1.5 | 3.5 | 0.6 | 1.7 | 2.1 | 16.7 |
| Total | 457 | 29 | 49.2 | 35.4 | 76.8 | 1.4 | 5.3 | 6.7 | 1.2 | 2.9 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 2.3 | 13.0 | |
