Myles Turner (basketball)
Turner makes an outlet pass at the 2014 McDonald's All-American Game
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| No. 33 – Indiana Pacers | |||||||||||||
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| Position | Center / Power forward | ||||||||||||
| League | NBA | ||||||||||||
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March 24, 1996 Bedford, Texas |
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| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) | ||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 243 lb (110 kg) | ||||||||||||
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| High school | Trinity (Euless, Texas) | ||||||||||||
| College | Texas (2014–2015) | ||||||||||||
| NBA draft | 2015 / Round: 1 / Pick: 11th overall | ||||||||||||
| Selected by the Indiana Pacers | |||||||||||||
| Playing career | 2015–present | ||||||||||||
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| 2015–present | Indiana Pacers | ||||||||||||
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Myles Christian Turner (born March 24, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played one season for the Texas Longhorns before declaring for the 2015 NBA draft and being selected by the Pacers with the 11th overall pick.
Turner was born in Bedford, Texas to parents David and Mary Turner, and started playing basketball as a six-year-old. He attended Central Junior High School, and as a 6-foot-2-inch freshman, he led his team to 27 wins.
Throughout high school, Turner played AAU basketball for the Texas Select team during the springs and summers to further develop himself and gain recognition as a player, participating in well known tournaments and camps such as the LeBron camp, the Nike Big Man Skills Academy, the NBPA Top 100 camp, Adidas Nations, and the Elite 24 invitational.
Between his sophomore and junior year, Turner, then 6'7", broke his ankle during the first spring game of AAU play, hurting his chances of recruitment, but soon recovered and gained some 30 pounds through two-a-day weight training regimen to improve his game.
In his junior year and after fully recovering, Turner was still relatively unknown and unrecruited, however he had a breakout season and averaged 15 points, 12 rebounds, and 8 blocks a game and leading Trinity to a 17–13 record and reaching the state playoffs for the first time in 10 years, and only the ninth time in school history dating back to the school's establishment in 1968. He also accumulated six triple-doubles.
During the 2013 AAU summer circuit, Turner maintained his high level of production, leading his Texas Select team to the title at the 2013 Jayhawk Invitational in front of coaches from most of the Big 12 schools.
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