The jokes were inevitably waiting for Myles Turner when he showed up for practice on Tuesday. The news of his four-year contract extension from the Pacers had broken the previous evening, so this was the first chance for his teammates to take shots at him.
They mostly consisted of the standard dinner's-on-you jokes one years upon receiving a financial windfall, but he had a ready answer.
"People don't understand, that doesn't kick in until next year," Turner said, laughing after Tuesday's practice at St. Vincent Center.
The contract agreement has kept him laughing and his cell phone buzzing since he put ink to paper within an hour of Monday's 6 p.