Myles Turner Puts Giannis and Doc Rivers on Blast: No Fines, No Discipline, No Problem
Myles Turner just burned the Bucks to the ground and he did it on a podcast with a smile on his face.
On a recent episode of his “Game Recognize Game w/ Stewie and Myles” podcast, Turner described his one season in Milwaukee as one of the strangest experiences of his basketball life. No fines. No accountability. Players showing up to film sessions and flights whenever they felt like it. And one name kept coming up: Giannis Antetokounmpo.
“Doc Rivers, he didn’t fine anybody, ever,” Turner said. “Guys were late all the time. Guys were showing up to film whenever they wanted to show up. Guys were missing meetings.”
Turner went further when pressed on who set the tone for that culture. “Giannis is gonna show up whenever he wants, really.” He mentioned that the team’s plane would routinely depart an hour late because players knew not to arrive on time. Turner himself said he stopped showing up at the scheduled departure because he learned from experience it didn’t matter.
This is a significant indictment of how the Bucks operated under Doc Rivers. Rivers resigned at the end of the season after Milwaukee missed the playoffs for the first time in his three-year tenure. The franchise’s decline from title contender to also-ran didn’t happen overnight, but Turner’s account suggests the internal culture was in far worse shape than anyone publicly acknowledged.
What makes this particularly damaging for Giannis is the timing. The two-time MVP is already at a crossroads in his career, with trade rumors swirling and Milwaukee clearly rebuilding around a different vision. Turner’s comments paint a picture of a superstar who operated above team standards, which will only fuel the narrative that the Bucks’ dysfunction started at the top.
Turner himself escaped the situation on a new deal elsewhere. He can afford to be honest about what he saw. And what he saw was a franchise with a superstar and a head coach who weren’t aligned on what accountability actually looks like.
A longtime sports reporter, Carlos Garcia has written about some of the biggest and most notable athletic events of the last 5 years. He has been credentialed to cover MLS, NBA and MLB games all over the United States. His work has been published on Fox Sports, Bleacher Report, AOL and the Washington Post.
