Myles Turner’s journey to the NBA is probably familiar. He was a chubby preteen who developed into a lanky teenager with a sweet jump shot who idolized Kevin Durant, drew comparisons to LaMarcus Aldridge, and meticulously worked to overcome gait-gate in order to fulfill the manifest destiny written by his parents on his birth announcement two decades earlier, “Future First Round Draft Pick”.
It’s an endearing story made more endearing today by the minutiae he included in an article he penned for the Players’ Tribune entitled, The Anomaly.