The first thing I felt when I woke up this morning was probably when Turner retired and when did the Celtics become an assistant coach???
It's not that I don't understand, it's that the world is changing a little fast. On October 17, Lillard and Turner were training together, and the two joked.
Lillard: "Brothers, let's practice like we don't have the ball?" Turner and Fraser: "We two really haven't found a home yet." ”
Lillard: "I know! Or who do you two think I'm talking about? Oops, what a nice day today! ”
Lillard and Turner have always had a good relationship, training together every offseason, and Lillard has said turner is the funniest teammate he's ever been with.
Turner played 19 games for the Hawks last season, averaging 3.3 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists per game. Sent to the Minnesota Timberwolves in February, he just became a free agent in the offseason.
If you follow Turner's standards last season, it's okay to play a final rotation in a team. But apparently, Turner now has his own ideas.
The Celts are a good place to go, and there is a deep bond between him and the Celts. In 2014-16, Turner played for the Celtics for two seasons and also earned the nickname "Young Master" among the fans.
In the 15-16 season, Turner averaged 10.5 points, 4.9 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game. Although the three-point ability is still sparse, it still got a big contract of 70 million yuan for four years from the Blazers in the summer of 2016.
Apparently, Turner's contract turned into a garbage contract two years later, dumped last season on the Eagles, brushed by the Eagles to the Timberwolves, and finally ended this summer.
Who would have thought that Turner, who still had a salary of 18.61 million last season, would have no ball to play in a few months? The competition in the league is so cruel, and the replacement is faster than ever.
Looking at the 2010 draft list, we will find that Evan Turner's name is only lower than Wall, and behind him are Cousins, Hayward, George and others.
Turner that year was the undisputed first man in the NCAA, and although he was in his third year, he was indeed the most powerful rookie of the year.
He averaged 20.4 points and 9.2 rebounds per game, the highest in the Top 10 leagues, while he ranked second with 6.0 assists and 1.7 steals. Turner won all the individual awards a college player could get.
His draft price went all the way up, of course, Wall's seductive talent made his position unbreakable, and Turner became the natural choice under one person.
But with a bit of black humor, the 76ers put turner, the most powerful man on the bench, for two years, and there was Lovell on the bench in his rookie season, and Turner averaged 6.8 shots per game as the eighth on the team.
When Turner's 17.4 points per game in his fourth season was finally calculated, the 76ers management clearly preferred the younger McAvoy and traded Turner to the Pacers mid-season.
Later, when he came to the Celts, Turner seemed to finally know his destination. Here, he has a very deep connection with the management and the players, and he and Stevens are both mentors and very good friends.
In November 2018, there was a news about Turner that I still have some impressions and deliberately went to turn it over. When the Blazers challenged the Celtics on the road, Turner said after the game:
"You're going to welcome me back one day, whether it's the general manager or the president, I don't know if Angie or they'll do it."
Or I'll come back as a player, I'll get 'Best Sixth Man' or whatever, and then I'll do what Andre Iguodala did.
I'll win the Finals MVP, and then I, Coach Stevens and Brady will drive away into the sunset together. ”
Two years later, on the last day of November, Turner returned to the Celtics as he wished, but not as a player. He would smile at Stevens when he said goodbye, as if he had fulfilled his original agreement.
"Coach, when I don't have the ball to play, how about coming to your place to mess around?"
"Come on, come on, what's the relationship between our brothers..."