We are currently under the salary floor. Just give him the money.
DemirMessi
Put a 10-15% trade kicker and a player option in it and thats a pretty good deal for both sides tbh.
DrewinNaptown
The renegotiate and extend adds quite a bit of money to this amount. Immediately $19M for this season and larger raises in future seasons. I doubt that $94M gets it done, toss him another $19M this season? Probably. Maybe the Pacers insulate themselves from future risk by lowering the dollar value at the end of the contract?
TechnoGamer16
Please just pay the man
fuzzynavel34
Please just fucking pay him
Terrible-Muscle-7087
We offered Ayton a $133 mil/4 year deal. If I were Turner, I wouldn’t sign for anything less. The only problem is that we can only offer the amount listed above or a super max deal worth closer to $200 mil. The only way we can offer Turner what we offered Ayton is to allow Turner to become a free agent, which is a risky move, as he could walk and the Pacers get nothing.
It’s a tough situation, and hopefully one that gets resolved. Turner absolutely deserves $30 mil per year. But hoping a verbal agreement before the trade deadline will be honored by both parties is one heck of a gamble. I do not envy KP in this situation.
I want Myles to retire here. But I don’t want to give him a super max deal (especially when we’ll have to pay Hali soon ) and don’t know if the Pacers can afford to let him hit free agency and hope to be able to resign him.
IndyPoker979
Myles needs to think fast and hard about his career. Not just here at the Pacers but in general. He can go the Carmelo Anthony or Russell Westbrook and chase money, or he can chase legacy.
No one in the league loves Myles more than here. I’m sorry but it’s a fact. We tolerate his lack of rebounding and his on-off games but we appreciate him at a level that isn’t seen in most cities.
Indiana fans are *different*. People love basketball but here it’s at a different level. The intangibles, the nuance, the little things. It’s why TJM is so adored.
So Myles can go to another city and they will praise him. They will cheer him at every block. But the moment he makes it all about the money instead of about building that legend?
Then it becomes just a business decision.
The Pacers have already shown Myles it’s a business. To his credit he hasn’t been willing to do the same. But if he does, he might be an all star at some point, but he’ll never get to that accolade of local legend.
toolingaround1
We are consistently near the bottom of the league when it comes to salary. If we don’t pay our second best player when we have the money why would our best player want to sign an extension when the time comes? Why would quality free agents, who we generally have trouble landing because we are never true contenders/Indy isn’t a destination city, want to come here if it looks like we’ll never compete/are cheap? Outside of franchise centers like Jokic and Embiid Myles is as good as it gets in the nba. Simons don’t care about winning though, I hope the cheap bastards sell the team.
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$24 mil a year for Myles is pretty good.
We are currently under the salary floor. Just give him the money.
Put a 10-15% trade kicker and a player option in it and thats a pretty good deal for both sides tbh.
The renegotiate and extend adds quite a bit of money to this amount. Immediately $19M for this season and larger raises in future seasons. I doubt that $94M gets it done, toss him another $19M this season? Probably. Maybe the Pacers insulate themselves from future risk by lowering the dollar value at the end of the contract?
Please just pay the man
Please just fucking pay him
We offered Ayton a $133 mil/4 year deal. If I were Turner, I wouldn’t sign for anything less. The only problem is that we can only offer the amount listed above or a super max deal worth closer to $200 mil. The only way we can offer Turner what we offered Ayton is to allow Turner to become a free agent, which is a risky move, as he could walk and the Pacers get nothing.
It’s a tough situation, and hopefully one that gets resolved. Turner absolutely deserves $30 mil per year. But hoping a verbal agreement before the trade deadline will be honored by both parties is one heck of a gamble. I do not envy KP in this situation.
I want Myles to retire here. But I don’t want to give him a super max deal (especially when we’ll have to pay Hali soon ) and don’t know if the Pacers can afford to let him hit free agency and hope to be able to resign him.
Myles needs to think fast and hard about his career. Not just here at the Pacers but in general. He can go the Carmelo Anthony or Russell Westbrook and chase money, or he can chase legacy.
No one in the league loves Myles more than here. I’m sorry but it’s a fact. We tolerate his lack of rebounding and his on-off games but we appreciate him at a level that isn’t seen in most cities.
Indiana fans are *different*. People love basketball but here it’s at a different level. The intangibles, the nuance, the little things. It’s why TJM is so adored.
So Myles can go to another city and they will praise him. They will cheer him at every block. But the moment he makes it all about the money instead of about building that legend?
Then it becomes just a business decision.
The Pacers have already shown Myles it’s a business. To his credit he hasn’t been willing to do the same. But if he does, he might be an all star at some point, but he’ll never get to that accolade of local legend.
We are consistently near the bottom of the league when it comes to salary. If we don’t pay our second best player when we have the money why would our best player want to sign an extension when the time comes? Why would quality free agents, who we generally have trouble landing because we are never true contenders/Indy isn’t a destination city, want to come here if it looks like we’ll never compete/are cheap? Outside of franchise centers like Jokic and Embiid Myles is as good as it gets in the nba. Simons don’t care about winning though, I hope the cheap bastards sell the team.