Myles Turner joins Milwaukee Bucks for new challenge

After 9 seasons spent with the Indiana Pacers, 28-year-old Myles Turner decided to instrumentality an important measurement successful his vocation and determination to the Milwaukee Bucks. On Friday, helium was officially presented astatine a property conference, wherever helium spoke openly astir the reasons for leaving the squad that played successful the league finals.

Turner has been a cornerstone of the Pacers defence for galore years. In the attack, helium stood retired arsenic a prime spouse successful the prime and rotation crippled with Tyrese Haliburton, and owed to his coagulated three-point shot, helium helped widen the tract and unfastened up abstraction for Pascal Siakam's penetrations. It was his shooting that importantly contributed to the team's tactical flexibility.

New challenges successful Milwaukee

Indiana astir touched the apical and could person won the rubric if Haliburton hadn't gotten hurt. The young playmaker suffered a superior Achilles tendon wounded and volition miss the full adjacent season, which automatically means that the Pacers tin nary longer number connected a title successful the adjacent future.

Because of this, the experienced halfway decided to motion a four-year declaration with the Bucks, worthy 107 cardinal dollars. "I wanted to enactment competitive. Two years agone we played successful the league finals, past year's finals. I was portion of winning hoops and that changed my perspective. In Milwaukee, I spot a accidental to enactment astatine that level," said Turner.

It is expected that he, unneurotic with Giannis Antetokounmpo, volition signifier a existent antiaircraft unit successful the caller club. "I was bushed of his elbows successful the thorax and enarthrosis thrusts. I'm kidding, he's a generational endowment and 1 of the champion players of each time. We'll talk, I'm precise acquainted with his benignant of play. I deliberation we'll enactment well, particularly defensively. The full roster is great, everyone sees the vision," the halfway added.

In bid to bring successful Turner, Milwaukee had to occurrence Damian Lillard, which further puts the onus connected the caller halfway to unrecorded up to the spot and bring the rubric backmost to Wisconsin with Giannis.