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Former Euless Trinity basketball star Myles Turner is giving back to the school district that helped him reach the NBA. The Milwaukee Bucks center announced on X that he has pledged $2 million over the next 20 years to the Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD athletic department. It will help every middle school and both high schools in the district.
Mike Vorkunov: Myles Turner has been elected as a VP on the NBPA Executive Committee. He replaced Garrett Temple, who retired. This is now the full NBPA executive committee: • Fred VanVleet, President • Grant Williams, First Vice President • Mason Plumlee, Secretary-Treasurer • Karl-Anthony Towns, Vice President • Santi Aldama, Vice President • Jaylen Brown, Vice President • Trey Murphy III, Vice President • Myles Turner, Vice President • Gabe Vincent, Vice President
Sam Yip: The NBPA announced that Myles Turner has been elected a vice president of its Executive Committee. He replaces Garrett Temple, who retired after last season. Temple had served as a Vice President on the NBPA's Executive Committee since 2017.
The new Trinity Arena in the Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District officially became Myles Turner Fieldhouse on Monday after Milwaukee Bucks center Myles Turner signed a sponsorship and pledge agreement with the district. According to the district’s Facebook post, Turner also handed a $2 million investment to the HEB ISD Education Foundation. A volunteer board runs the foundation. The post did not say how the $2 million will be paid out or how long the name stays on the building. HEB ISD voters approved a 2023 bond to rebuild Trinity, maintaining the campus’s “high school on a hill” character. Phase 1 included a new competition gym, expected to take about 15 months. Students could access the new athletic areas by mid-August 2026, with Phase 2 adding classrooms, cafeteria, and admin spaces.
Jokic was simply asked to clarify who is the best defender against him in the NBA. Serbian center shortly said "Everyone," before naming a full list of different players: "Everyone. Some teams defend very well as a unit, while others have excellent individual defenders. Zubac guards me really well, and so does Nurkic. I guess they’re just bulkier, so I can’t move them when we’re battling for position," he said. "I think Rudy Gobert is a great defender, even though I’ve historically played well against him. Jalen Duren, he’s undersized but tricky. Wendell Carter Jr. is also on the shorter side, and Myles Turner blocks a lot of shots. There’s no need to even talk about Wembanyama. They’re all good; the league is talented on both ends of the floor."
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Myles Turner: "The first person that pops in my head is obviously Victor Wembanyama. The reason I say this is not just because of his basketball talent, it's because the way he represents himself, the things he does off the floor, the person that he becomes. As an NBA representative, you have to be a humanitarian. You have to be someone that is highly marketable, someone that is recognizable, but also someone that doesn't have much drama off the floor. Wembanyama has done an amazing job of keeping his family first."
Myles Turner: "The one thing I make sure I never do is I never tune into the TV part of things, the ESPN, the SportsCenter, the first take. They're quite literally programmed to spread negativity. That negativity grabs your attention. When you see that negativity, you're naturally almost going to look. It's just some form of controversy. The fact that they're actually trying to spread negativity or trying to spark a narrative is just toxic. I have to try to find my ways to go off of that."
In fact, the Pacers haven’t been a tax paying team since the 2004-05 season. In the two decades since, the franchise has always finished with a team salary below the luxury tax line and received a distribution of money from the league’s taxpaying teams. Since 2005, the only NBA teams to never cross the luxury tax threshold are the Pacers, Memphis Grizzlies, Detroit Pistons, Charlotte Hornets, and Sacramento Kings. Reporting suggested that the Pacers may have been willing to do so in the 2025-26 season after their run to the NBA Finals, but Tyrese Haliburton’s injury changed everything before Myles Turner left in free agency.
Myles Turner has pledged $1 million to Empowering the Masses, a Dallas nonprofit that works on food insecurity, through his W.A.R.M. foundation. The pledge was announced Aug. 27. It is structured as a conditional distribution of $100,000 a year over the next 10 years. Turner was born in Bedford and played high school basketball at Trinity in Euless. “The DFW Metroplex has always been home for me,” Turner said in the announcement. “The opportunities these communities have provided me were integral to my success over the years. So giving back to the Metroplex that shaped me is something I take seriously.”
Myles Turner: "You made it, you are a guy, you are a star from your city, people look up to you. So more and more people are going to be hitting you up. You are on TV every single night. Your cousin's cousin's friend knows you. People haven't talked to in years know you. You have to find a no guy. I think that is so important. It is very easy to become a yes man at this level. So you have to make sure you have your no guy. Someone asks you for money, be like, go talk to this guy right here. Someone asks you to come out to do this appearance, be like, yeah, but you got to go talk to this guy right here."
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Sources say that the Bucks have indeed received some trade interest in veteran center Myles Turner in the wake of the Giannis Antetokounmpo blockbuster, but one league source asserted Friday night that Milwaukee is not actively engaged in moving him.
NBA sources I’ve spoken with have connected the Raptors to Bucks centre Myles Turner, with the possibility that Raptors centre Jakob Poeltl, third-year wing Gradey Dick and potentially draft compensation being the core of a deal that would net Toronto the veteran big with credentials as a rim protector and three-point threat.
Myles Turner on dealing with constant NBA trade rumors: "I'm so numb to it now. At the very beginning of my career, I was in a trade rumor every single offseason. I had my bags packed twice. I thought at one point in my career I was going to be traded to Boston for Gordon Hayward and I thought I literally was ready to go and then that fell through at the last second. And then I also thought I was going to be traded to the Lakers for a while. So I'm so numb to it now, if it happens it happens and it's just part of the business."
