ESPN writer: 'If I'm an Indiana Pacer right now, I'm absolutely disgusted, I am sick to my stomach'
IndyStar's Gregg Doyel reported the Pacers were offering closer to $95 million over four years. The Bucks are reportedly giving Turner $107 million over four years. Indiana is already over the salary cap, so any deal would have put the Pacers into the luxury tax for the first time in 20 years. But apparently there was a limit to just how high they'd go with their All-NBA guard Tyrese Haliburton likely out for the 2025-26 season.
Count ESPN's Brian Windhorst among those flabbergasted at Turner's move.
"If I'm an Indiana Pacer right now, I'm absolutely disgusted, I am sick to my stomach. If I'm Tyrese Haliburton, I am breaking things right now. If I'm Rick Carlisle, I'm furious at just what's happened because they were unwilling to spend a little bit of luxury tax money to hold this team in place for a year when Haliburton came back.
"To go to a team that they hate, they hate the Bucks. So it's going to take a while to digest this, and if Giannis tweets later today a big smiling emoji and indicates that he is happy as a clam, the Bucks can declare a win. But I'm not sure the balance of power was changed in the Eastern Conference even though this has been a stunning turn of events."
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