Myles Turner

Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles

The Players' Tribune

Arts, Comedy, Sports

5 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Indiana stand up!! Pacers big man, Myles Turner, joins Knuckleheads to chop it up with Q and D. Myles looks back on his time growing up in Texas, going to UT, and why he decided to leave after his first year. He talks getting drafted by Larry Bird, what it was like playing with Paul George, and how he feels about this current Pacers team, now that he’s the OG in the building. One of the most underrated defenders in the league, live on location from XS Nightclub at Wynn Las Vegas — tune in!

Texas hoops, being the No. 2-ranked player in the country (7:20)
Getting drafted by the Pacers and meeting Larry Bird (28:55)
Playing with Paul George early in his career (37:42)
Tyrese Haliburton’s impact (38:54)
Being the veteran on the Pacers and their future outlook (46:47)
Myles’s crazy Lego collection (49:10)

About Our Hosts:

NBA veterans Quentin Richardson and Darius Miles are lifelong friends and bona fide truth-tellers. Listen as they invite special guests, high-profile athletes, musicians and entertainers to get brutally honest about everything from current events to untold stories from the golden era of sports and culture. Named for the on-court celebration they made wildly popular, this unfiltered, hilarious and surprising podcast is like playing NBA 2K with no fouls.

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0:00.0	First off, man, we appreciate you being on the show.
0:03.1	Appreciate you being there.
0:04.2	We can call you down here in Vegas, man.
0:06.4	It's a good summer.
0:07.6	But first question won't ask you.
0:09.0	When you first got to the league, who's the first person
0:11.5	to bust your head?
0:12.4	First person, bust my head.
0:13.4	That's a great question.
0:14.7	I love telling this story.
0:16.0	The Marcus Cousins, bro.
0:16.9	That was my first, like, welcome to the league moment, bro.
0:19.8	So I was on my high horse.
0:21.4	I had missed most of the first half of the season.
0:23.0	I broke my thumb.
0:24.0	Missed like, you know, what was the 20 games or so?
0:26.7	Just the middle of the season, not coming back.
0:28.1	I'm in the West Coast.
0:29.3	This is Golden State Warriors, seeing that just
0:30.7	one of the championship.
0:31.7	Oh, he was really Golden State.
0:32.9	No, no, no, I was still with the Pacis.
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