Indiana Pacers – Myles Turner would’ve cost Simon $47M! Colts position battles – camp in 20 days!

Indiana Pacers – Myles Turner would’ve cost Simon $47M! Colts position battles – camp in 20 days!

Pacers did exactly the right thing with Miles Turner and the Milwaukee Bucks did exactly the wrong thing with Damen Damen Lillard and Miles Turner. I don’t think there’s it’s really hard to question it when you look at the math and and you see how much Miles Turner would have cost the Indiana Pacers in real dollars, not in salary, but in paying into the cap and then in forfeiting the money, the compensation you get back from the NBA for not being in the cap. It would have totaled $47 million or thereabouts. Are you would you spend It’s easy for us to say, “Hey, Simon’s made a money. What the hell is he doing? Why didn’t he spend for the center? Doesn’t he see that we don’t have a starting center right now? Wouldn’t it be worth whatever he has to spend? What the hell do I care what he’s spending on a center in the NBA? Why do I care how much Miles Turner gets and how little money the Simon family gets?” Everybody says that until it’s your money. Imagine it’s your $47 million. I’ll tell you how you get to 47 million from the 26.75 that it would have cost or 25, whatever that it would have cost the Pacers to retain the services of an absolutely mediocre center in the NBA. Mediocre starting center. Now, this leaves a gaping hole in the Pacers starting lineup. We’re going to look at that, too, because this this isn’t over. The thing you got to remember with Miles Turner and the Indiana Pacers and the vacuum of quality play that now exists at the center position. You got to remember they don’t play a game for another three and a half months. So there’s time for Kevin Pritchard to put something together. How’s he going to do it? How the hell do I know? I have no idea what he’s going to do to go out and get a senator. I will tell you this. if he goes out and signs Thomas Bryant to an extension, some kind of extension and and Thomas Bryant is anything but kind of a third string minute eating kind of guy, this team’s got problems in the immediate future and and they’re going to have to fix that somehow some way. But they do have assets that they can utilize to go out and get something to to kind of stem the tide and and put somebody in the five spot where you’re not going to be ashamed at the level of play from that position. We’ll talk about it. We’ll talk about Colts training camp. It’s going to start in 20 days and the our attention will be riveted every single workout on on about four positions. Last year they returned everybody. All the starters were back. All the specialists were back. And so you really didn’t have any solid positional battles. This time’s different. You got positional battles. And they are on both sides of the ball at multiple spots. We’ll talk about that. 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He played 40 games last year for the Portland Trailblazers under a contract negotiated with the Pacers when he was a a restricted free agent. He wound up uh that deal wound up being matched by the Suns and then dealt to the Blazers. So, it’s the circle of the Pacers are involved in everything. Uh he is not going to be the replacement for Miles Turner and there really isn’t any quality uh starter on the board left for the Pacers to go get as a free agent with Aiden being gone. Thomas Bryant is still a free agent. People are saying you should sign Thomas Bryant. You know what? If it’s anything as a minute filling uh third string guy, you got a problem. Like, you can’t have Thomas Bryant as your starting center for the 2025 2026 season, can you? I don’t think so. I don’t think that’s a uh that’s not an avenue that leads to success. Let’s be clear there. Isaiah Jackson right now is the starting center for the Pacers. Not entirely comfortable with that given the fact that he tore his Achilles and we don’t know where he is in his rehab. James Wiseman is still working out with the Pacers, but he has not signed a contract. We don’t know the disposition of that Achilles. Both guys are young. Both guys project to be fully healed once the season starts or shortly thereafter. But do you really want you want Tony Bradley as your starting center for any period of time? Look, the starting lineup is this right now. It’s Andrew Nehard, Benedict Mathan, right? Aaron Nesmith, Pascal Seakum, and an empty set at center. The first four guys I got no problem with. I’m cool with Nemhard as a starting one. Mathine is going to score buckets. Big buckets. All right. He going to score a lot of points. Then you got NE. We’re happy with N Smith, right? Good with N Smith, good with Seakum. This is They’ve got four fifths of a pretty damn good professional basketball team. They just got to find that fifth part and that’s Kevin Pritchard, Chad Buchanan’s job. Those guys got to go out and get that get that position filled or find some way to get it done that’s going to at least give us the thought that they’re doing their jobs at a high level, but they got three months to get that done. I got no problem with that. I I think they’re going to be fine. Kevin Pritchard is a very creative executive and he’s going to get it done. Now, here’s the thing about Miles Turner. Miles Turner, people are saying, “Oh, the Pacers are cheap.” People always say pe others are cheap about themselves. They say, “Well, I’m prudent. I’m practical. I’m pragmatic. I understand the value of a buck.” With others, ah, you’re cheap. Why don’t you pick up a check once in a while? Miles Turner would have cost this would have cost 25 million. They say he would have signed with the Pacers at 25. Pacers offered up to 23. You don’t like 23 million? Okay, so the uh Bucks come in with 26.75. All right, that’s that’s nice. I don’t blame Miles Turner for taking the money and not giving the the Pacers a big hometown discount. Again, everybody loves hometown discounts when they apply to someone else. When they apply to you, oh hell no. I’d move. Not me, but I know people who have moved from their home here to another city for 10 grand. So, hometown discount, hometown smish count. You got the 25. All right. Then what you got? You got another 11. It would have cost the Pacers right around $11 million to sign uh in taxes to take Miles Turner at 25 and add him to the roster. So there you’re up to 36. Then you’ve got another 10ish in forfeited compensation from the NBA for not going into the luxury tax. So, you’re talking about about $47 million potentially if you went to that 26.75. You go there, you’re talking about $47 million for the services of Miles Turner. All right. 10 and4 in the NBA finals. At best this past season, a little bit over 15 points a game and like six and a half rebounds a game. That’s worth $47 million to roll back without m without Tyrese Hallebertton as the point guard who’s who’s putting Miles in a position to score the points that he scores. you’re going to take away the thing that really kind of elevated Miles Turner’s value because if you look at the statistics, Tyrese Hallebertton with the Pacers, Tyrese Hallebertton not with the Pacers, the the difference in statistical productivity stark for Miles Turner. So 47 million a year plus you don’t have the guy that lever that kind of catapulted Miles Turner into being a productive center. That’s crazy. Who would do that? So national guys are like, “Oh, they’re cheap. These cheap bastards in in Indiana. $47 million for Miles Turner. Are you out of your mind?” So, what the Pacers could get, they they’ve got I I guess a trade exception worth up to somewhere around $14 million, right? But then like I I keep seeing this pop up online and I haven’t verified this, haven’t had it confirmed, that they could get a trade exception from uh this deal from a deal that could occur with a Bucks that would allow the Pacers to utilize enough money or as much money as the Bucks spent on Turner. I don’t know that that’s true. If that’s true, you’re in business. You’ve got your first round draft picks from 26 on forward. You You’ve got enough equity uh draft pick equity to send someplace to go get somebody who can play basketball at a higher level than Thomas freaking Bryant. All right, so that’s kind of where you are in this thing. But before you start criticizing the Simons for not spending 25 million, remember that that 25 million balloons up to 47 million with all the penalties in the tax and without the reward for not going across the tax threshold. Remember that before we get a little bit too what do they care? They got billions of dollars. Yeah, it’s all good when it’s not your money, right? You look at the menu a little bit differently when somebody else is picking up the tab, don’t you? All of a sudden, you’re not looking at the sandwiches. You’re looking at the steaks. Uh-huh. I know you. And Giannis is probably still going to leave. Giannis knows the score. Like what? Giannis Giannis is a really smart cat. Giannis knows that. Uh, okay. No, Damen Lillard and Middleton’s been gone for a while and and you throw me Miles Turner and that is supposed to plate me. A and people in the national media keep calling Miles Turner a star quality player. Really? Have y’all watched him? Are you out of your mind? We just know who he is. You know who he is because he just played in the NBA finals. Guy’s never been an all-star ever. He’s never been close to an all-star. Nobody’s remember Lance Stevenson back in the day back in like 13 or 14. Almost an all-star, right? Should have been an all-star. Turner’s never gotten there. Uh, you’re not mad about Miles at all. Adios Miles. Exactly. Right. And good luck to you. I We like Miles Turner. Miles Turner didn’t burn a bridge here. He didn’t go all Paul George. We’re not worried about Miles Turner and and his behavior when he was an Indiana Pacer either coming in staying or going. It’s all good with Miles Turner. It’s fine. Um but yeah, that that starting lineup that doesn’t bother me. Do not bring in Thomas Brighton and have him start. Please, dear God. Uh let’s not do that. Colts camp starts in about 20 days. In exactly 20 days. You got position battles. The quarterback battle well chronicled. Richardson versus Jones versus Leonard. Look, I’m not discounting the possibility that Riley Leonard does something in camp where you’re looking and you’re saying, “Why not him?” I watched Riley Leonard and Daniel Jones throw and throw and throw and throw during OTAAS and mini camp, and I got to tell you truth, if they weren’t wearing 17 and 15, I’d have no idea which was who. They look like the same guy. So, I’m not I don’t think this is a two-way deal. I do think that Anthony Richardson is 100% the starting quarterback if he projects toward being healthy because there there is no way you look at those two guys, Richardson and Jones, and say, “Oh, oh, yeah, they’re they’re the same guy.” Look, no, five and 17 are a hell of a lot different from one another watching those guys. But the thing you don’t know, and we talked about it yesterday uh with Dr. Chow, is you don’t know if if Richardson can stay healthy. The healthier he gets, the more prone he is to try to use his superpower of running. Go Pacers says Miles was never the center of the future or the past or the present. Exactly right. Uh Richardson throwing the football. Richardson running, moving with the football is really, really good. Your eyes go straight to him. They do not go straight to Daniel Jones. But because Anthony Richardson can’t be projected toward being healthy, it’s a real competition at quarterback. At wide receiver, you got AD Mitchell in there. So you return everybody, right? You got Pitman, Pierce, DS, Mitchell. Mitchell’s going to take snaps from guys. And if he grows up a little bit, he’s going to take a lot of them from some guys. Everybody’s kind of good, right? Down’s really kind of good. Pitman still kind of good. Pierce it wants to be allowed to be better, show himself to be better than he is by the Colts offense because he he’s better at the stuff he wasn’t very good at. And right now he’s kind of that stretch guy to get the safety, the free safety to kind of move in his direction and open up the field else. You talk about Miles Turner as a stretch five, right? He opens up the floor for everybody else. People who love Miles Turner say that kind of thing. Alec Pierce does that for the receivers on the Colts because one-on-one there aren’t many corners who can stay with him. So you want to shade your safety in his direction. that opens up the floor everywhere else or the field everywhere else. That’s kind of Pierce. Pierce does not want to be that guy. He doesn’t want to get paid to run, you know, 28 40 yard sprints. He wants to be paid to catch a football and he wants to catch a lot of footballs. Go Pacers says, “Who do you want to start a quarterback?” I want Anthony Richardson because with Anthony Richardson, the potential of the Colts is here. They’re a playoff team with a healthy Anthony Richardson for 17 games. Without Anthony Richardson and with anybody else, that potential drops to here. They’re an 8-9 team with Daniel Jones. That’s just the way it is. Nothing against Daniel Jones. He was 44 or 24 44-1 as a starting quarterback for the Giants. That’s who he is. I think he can play at a higher level for the Colts. So, I’ll say 24 44 and one. At linebacker, you got Jaylen Car versus everybody. You got linebackers all over the place and nobody knows if any of them can play. Carl is going to be all right in coverage and he is good at pursuing running backs. So, we’re going to see with Jaylen Car, but mostly he is an unproven commodity. You do have Siguna Lubie, you have Cameron Mcronone, you you have other options. You have some guys who are still on the street that might be brought in at some point if they don’t like Carl at cornerback. This kind of interesting. All right, so we’re all talking about Justin Wallally. Justin Wallally, a third round draft pick out of Minnesota and and a good corner and he showed himself to be kind of sticky during mini camp and during OTAAS and and a very smart guy. And the thing that I thought when he was drafted in the third round, I was like, “Oh, this is because Kenny Moore is getting a little bit long in the tooth.” So, they go out and get a 5′ 10 inch corner that projects to be a nickel. I stood next to him. I’m 6 feet tall right on the nut. and I looked at his shoes. He’s wearing flats. He’s not wearing heels. And we’re headtohead. That dude is six feet tall. And at six feet tall, all of a sudden, he he’s an an outside cornerback prospect. So, Justin Lawley, uh, Ju Guu Brent, and Jaylen Jones, those guys, you look at those guys. I think it’s a three-way competition for that other outside corner spot opposite Mooney Ward. Joe says, “I don’t hate Danny Dimes the starter.” Look, you can’t be 244 and one and call yourself Danny Dimes or be called Danny Dimes unless it’s being sarcastic. You just can’t. He had one good season with the Giants. I I would not count on that one season out of six with the Giants being indicative of what he can do here. Nothing that he has done at least to this point. And hopefully I’m wrong, right? No, the Colts shouldn’t have drafted Huers. That good question though. Um, I hope I’m wrong, but Daniel Jones doesn’t pass that eye test where all of a sudden with a starting quarterback, almost any starting quarterback, your eyes just kind of go thoop and and you focus on that guy. Daniel Jones does not have that quality. There’s no charisma to his game. So, you know, we’ll see. Now, injuries h have been kind of a uh a robber of some of his quality. When he played that one good season for the Giants, he ran a lot. He ran for better than 700 yards that year, but that torn ACL and some other injuries has has kind of robbed him of that ability. What Anthony Richardson needs to do is become a pocket passer. I’m sorry, but he’s got to be a pocket passer because he can’t stay healthy in any other way as a quarterback and he throws the ball well enough to be a successful pocket passer in the NFL. Run it every once in a while, but running it a as part of the offense, you can’t do it because you can’t stay healthy. Uh, but those and and then the edge, I mean, you’ve got you got a million edges on this team, right? And who’s any good? You got Epiccom, you you’ve got Pay. You’ve got Lu you you got guys all over the place. You got Lewis. You got uh JT from Ohio State. Tui Sumalow. Tui Mos. Yes. Tui Tui Sumolo. I think that guy the second round pick. You got all these guys fighting for snaps. Can any of them play? Can any of them get to the quarterback at a level where you think, “All right, 10 sacks is possible for one of these guys.” Well, that’s what you would like. You’d like somebody to be on the field and and be an ambient player like Rick Ventur calls guys who keep opposing quarterbacks up nights. You got to take an ambient to get to sleep. You need one of those guys at edge to keep opposing offensive coordinators from getting a good night’s sleep and giving uh an Lou Anarumo, the new defensive coordinator, a good night’s sleep as he prepares. All right. Uh the Mavericks hiring Frank Vogle. What’s Frank Vogle doing? Frank Vogle had a threeyear or fiveyear $31 million deal that he signed two years ago to be the Suns head coach. The Suns fired him a year ago. gave him a big giant novelty check to walk away. Why does he want to be an assistant coach for the Mavericks? What in the hell are you doing, Frank? Spend time with your family. Go to high school football games. I saw him at a Caramel high school football game. Like we’re on the ramp walking up to walking up to watch Carmel play. What was I doing there? I don’t know what I was doing there. And uh I was like, Frank, how you doing? What are you doing here? He goes, “I want to see some high school football.” It’s like, “Good for you.” Nobody bothered him. Like Frank Vogle is the most normal guy in the history of head he was the head coach for the Pacers at the time. He’s made a lot of money. He made a lot of money with the Pacers. He made a lot of money with the Lakers. He made a lot of money with the Suns. And he wants to be the lead assistant for the Mavericks. God bless him. Also, Caitlyn Clark out again tonight. Uh, but as long as the Fever win without her, hey, I’m cool. So, tonight they go up against the Las Vegas Aces, Asia Wilson, and we’ll see what happens. Got to get that groin right because this team, if she gets right, is going to score a lot of points, and is going to be a whole lot of fun to watch. So, let’s hope. Uh, Red Panda, by the way, out of the hospital, broken wrist. uh she is going on the uh the halftime performer injured list and so we wish her all the best. Oh, by the way, Cubs won last night 54. Picro Armstrong with two RBI’s. Seiko Suzuki with three. How about that? Nice night for the Cubs. Um birthdays today. Tyrie Boso celebrating a birthday. Marshia Shook Cameron, happy birthday. Mark Gatau celebrating a birthday. David Bernstein, happy birthday. Jedaline Begian celebrating a birthday. Brian Jones, David Satler, Julie Elizabeth Hall, the great Dave Smiley celebrating a birthday. And the wonderful, the talented, the exquisitly attractive Rodney Turple is celebrating a birthday today. Rodney and I had the best time you can possibly have, and I didn’t even know it at the time, in an eighth grade talent show, which was what we did was entirely improvised. We had no idea what but we couldn’t spell improvisation. And I went on to like go to Second City and and take classes and be a part of of Second City and and their theater and be in improv groups when I was in my 20s. I was like, “Shit, funniest guy I ever worked with I worked with in eighth grade and it was Rodney freaking Turple. Where the hell is Rodney?” So happy birthday to Rod. saw him a year ago tomorrow at the Fourth of July parade up in Lake Bluff, Illinois. How about that? Uh, we’ll talk to you later today. Can’t wait. We’ve gone way long, but it’s a holiday and I it’s a holiday week and I took the day off radio-wise, so I’m a little bit yaky, so if this has gone along, I apologize. What are you going to do? Uh, thanks to everybody who contributed. Very, very nice of you. We’ll be back around 4:00 this afternoonish, depending on the news. If we get news of the Pacers doing something, we’ll break it right here, right over my head, and we will ring the bells to do it. The bells, of course, on their perch right up there. How about that? Uh, but we’ll talk to you later today, uh, inside Indiana Sports on now.

Myles Turner’s ticket for Pacers would have cost $47m including tax and loss of non-tax compensation!
Pacers starting lineup has HUGE whole!
Colts camp in just 20 days, and there will be some serious position battles – including the obvious one at QB!
Fever host Aces tonight as Caitlin Clark will sit – again!
Mavericks hiring Frank Vogel as lead assistant!

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