Charania Reporting for ABC NBA Countdown on the present and future impact of Myles Turner on the Indiana Pacers and the franchise's determination to enter the luxury tax for the first time in 20 years

Bontemps Let's call a spade a spade The Pacers made that trade because they're cheap Ivica Zubac is a good player but they made that trade amp gave up a premium to get him because he's on a very good contract so they could probably stay under the luxury tax which they haven't paid in 20 years

Myles Turner says Doc Rivers doesn't fine players so players are late all the time for practices film sessions and even flights Specifically pointing out Giannis for being late towards team flights and delaying them by up to 2 hours

Myles Turner on the NBA refs The refs are like the police If you fuck with one of them you fuck with all of them They band together and its like 'Nah hes not getting no calls' If you go after a rookie ref or a female ref the veteran refs will step in and fuck you out of the game

Game Recognize Game Myles Turner reveals Giannis Antetokounmpo and other Bucks players showed up late for practices film sessions and even flights Giannis is going to show up whenever he wants

Charania on Giannis Antetokounmpo The resolution is coming on that one Pat In process I would say now and between the NBA draft on the 23rd One thing I did pick up last week and into this week Gianniss stance has not changed

Charania I do know a lot of teams are calling LeBron and his camp I spoke to Rich Paul last week and he told me every contender in the NBA has essentially placed a call since the season ended