Turner s attitude changes greatly, Pacers trading is too magical, the alliance s pattern has completely changed

Back at home Gambrigi Stadium, the Indiana Pacers did not let the victory slip through their fingers anymore, and a 17-point victory allowed them to step onto the finals again after 25 years. After the game, Miles Turner, one of the winners, applied to confess to the home fans: "I know you have never stopped believing that we will not let this city down. We are ready and there are still 4 wins!"

As the three-day veterans who have been with the team for the longest time in the team, Turner will be put on the shelves by the team almost every offseason, which makes him physically and mentally exhausted. He and Hilder are only one step away from going to the Lakers. If the Warriors are willing to send Wiseman out, he will almost go to the Bay Area. However, Turner stayed in the end. Now, his attitude has also changed drastically. First, after years of companionship, he and Indianapolis have long been very close. Second, who would refuse the temptation to win? After the Pacers entered 2025, their record in the league was second only to the Thunder. Since March 10, they have never suffered a series of losses with their super adjustment ability. All signs indicate that the Pacers become the Eastern Conference champion, which seems to be upset, but in fact it is natural. And all this is inseparable from a deal - on the last trading deadline, they used Bruce Brown, Walla and three first rounds to get Siakam from the Raptors. In this year's playoffs, Sika showed strong dominance on both offense and defense, which is equivalent to the Pacers getting the Eastern Conference Final MVP in only three first rounds. Such a deal is really amazing!

It is worth mentioning that as the Thunder and the Pacers advance to the finals one after another, this is also the first time in recent years that two teams that did not pay luxury taxes have met in the finals. Before that, only the Spurs in 2014, the Warriors in 2015 and 2017, and the Lakers in 2020 won the championship without paying luxury taxes. The Warriors in 2017 were not representative. At that time, they were enjoying the final dividend of Curry's four-year, $44 million child labor contract. Among the other three teams, the Spurs in 2014 are the most like a model for a civilian team to win the championship.

Now, the league's pattern has changed completely again. The heavy super luxury tax penalty has made those super teams more unsustainable. After the Celtics won the championship, they were regarded as a year ahead of schedule, but they failed early. The Pacers and the Thunder began to write their legendary stories, and the NBA entered a new era of heroic separatism, and the practice of maintaining a super lineup by relying on luxury taxes is gone.