NBA Trade Rumor: Raptors Linked To Myles Turner

If the Milwaukee Bucks go ahead and tear it down by trading Giannis Antetokounmpo (and one team is making great headway), one has to ask why they would not immediately follow that up by trading their big free agent splash of this past offseason, Myles Turner.

The former Indiana Pacers center signed a shocking four-year, $107 million deal last summer to head to Milwaukee, to presumably team up with the Greek Freak. That tandem spent very little time together, due to injuries to Giannis, and now an impending blockbuster trade.

Toronto Raptors analyst Aaron Rose said on TSN's First Up on Monday that the Raptors should be seriously pursuing Turner. He would answer the team's two biggest needs: A legit center to take over for the ailing Jakob Poeltl, and a floor spacer.

Targets I would be looking at if I'm the Raptors... Myles Turner. It's a player I've been talking about for years that the Raptors should target, as a three-point shooting big man. They need a center, they need three-point shooting. Let's marry them together and get Myles Turner. I think that would make a ton of sense.
If I was the Bucks, if I'm ripping everything down, he's a guy I would be looking to trade. Basically, anything that's not stapled to the floor.

With Giannis's impending departure, Turner could be next.

Is Myles Turner’s stay with the Bucks going to be a short one?
Some NBA teams, sources said, are doing their homework on the Bucks big man, who signed a bloated four-year, $107M deal with the team last summer.
Turner, who turns 30 on March 24, has noticeably struggled this…
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Insider Gery Woelfel says "some" NBA teams are doing their homework on Turner. You would have to think that the Raptors, who've been connected in recent weeks to the more unlikely center acquisitions of Anthony Davis and Domantas Sabonis, would be one of those teams.

This will be an intriguing possibility to follow for Raptors fans heading up to Thursday's trade deadline.