Indiana Pacers heart Myles Turner has been in commerce rumors linking him to the Los Angeles Lakers since 2021, and mainly each season since, together with the present, 2024-25 marketing campaign. However after one other NBA commerce deadline got here and went on Thursday, Turner is as soon as once more nonetheless a member of the reigning Japanese Convention Finals individuals.
Turner has all the time demonstrated a humor and levity in regards to the state of affairs, with responses ranging to making his pitch on Woj’s podcast to get traded, to making an attempt to get a date with a TikTok influencer out of the rumors.
This season was no completely different, as Turner tweeted an image of the Survivor tv present brand to point he had made it by means of one other deadline with out getting shipped out of Indiana:
It’s arduous guilty Turner for cracking jokes given how humorous it’s that the Pacers and he are seemingly all the time prepared to half methods, however no staff has made a compelling sufficient provide to pry him away… but. However there’s all the time subsequent yr.
And he wasn’t the one one have some enjoyable with the state of affairs, as NBA Twitter had some jokes about his near-yearly presence in commerce rumors for the majority of his profession as effectively:
Myles Turner OWNS the commerce deadline.
Drafted in 2015.
Arguably essentially the most traded participant in our website’s historical past.
SIXTH longest tenured participant within the league.
TEN years in Indiana.
STILL a Pacer.
(h/t: @hoopsrumors) pic.twitter.com/lL4XO2ahBC
— Fanspo (@fanspo) February 6, 2025
At this level, that is formally one of many NBA’s funniest and longest-running bits, so I hope Turner and the Pacers stick with it for the remainder of his profession. The league gained’t be the identical after his remaining season, every time that’s, which I assume the Pacers will ring in by buying him after which not buying and selling him at one remaining deadline. He ought to get a statue in Indianapolis, however it’s simply of a Shams Charania scoop graphic with a photograph of him that claims “SOURCES: Lakers fascinated about Myles Turner” on the underside.
It might be an ideal tribute to a participant who might go down because the commerce machine GOAT.
