Latest @BleacherReport Ranking the Top 30 Potential 2025 NBA Free Agents – my first crack at it. I'll revisit it over the next few weeks & months. Not a list of "best players, in order," but some context inside: https://t.co/NXxNxCqPMO
— Eric Pincus (@EricPincus) February 19, 2025
No 1: LeBron James
No. 2: Kyrie Irving
No. 3: James Harden
No. 4: Myles Turner
No. 5: Naz Reid
No. 6: Fred VanVleet
No. 7: Julius Randle
No. 8: Jonathan Kuminga
No. 9: Josh Giddey
No. 10: Brook Lopez
I’m sorry but I would give up Austin Reaves for Myles Turner.
Of course you would. You’d probably throw in a lung and your grandkids. Truth is, he’s never played well in a meaningful game. No reason to suspect that’d change.
You’d be a fool. Turner can’t create offense, has never averaged even 8 rebounds/game despite generally being the biggest player on his team, and is a career 36% shooter from three on a whopping 3.6 attempts. Reaves is twice the player now that Turner will ever be.
Also, if he’s looking for anything close to the rumored $30 mil he wants that’s absurd for the Lakers to consider, unless LBJ retires then all bets are off.
Myles Turner at 4 is 5-6 spots too high. While a key cog in Indy winning these days he proved unable to impact winning without a decent roster. Randle took a bunch of nobodies in new York to the playin and THEN got some help. He’s a good player in a bad situation right now. Brook Lopez is better than Turner, as well lol. Dude helped win a title, what’s Turner ever done except shoot 35ish percent from three?