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Evan Marcel Turner (born October 27, 1988) is an American professional
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coach and former player. He was most recently an assistant coach for the
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of the
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(NBA). He was drafted second overall by the
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in the 2010 NBA draft. Turner attended St. Joseph High School in
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. By his senior season, he was one of the top high school basketball players at his position in the nation. In 2010, Turner was a first-team All-American and the National Player of the Year while playing at Ohio State University; he also became a two-time
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champion and the
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for the
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. He was twice the only unanimous selection for the All-Big Ten first team by both the coaches and the media (i.e., 2008–09 and 2009–10). By finishing first in scoring and second in both rebounds and assists in the conference in the 2009–10 season, he was the first men's basketball player to finish in the top two in each of these categories and the first to finish in the top five in each category in the same season. He holds the conference record for most Conference Player of the Week awards, both in a career and in a single season. In March 2022, Evan Turner started a podcast with his former teammate from the 76ers, Andre Iguodala. The podcast is called ''Point Forward''.


Early life

Turner was born weighing . Within his first year, he endured
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,
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,
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, and
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. The 1989 Chicago measles epidemic caused Turner to desperately need
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services. He encountered severe breathing problems that required the removal of his
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s and
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s. At the age of three, he was hit by a car, resulting in a
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and stitches. Oversized baby teeth and an
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caused a
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that necessitated
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.


High school career

Before high school, Turner and fellow
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player
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were teammates on the 8th grade basketball team at Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School in
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. He played in the Summer 2004 AAU Boys 15-under Basketball National Championship Tournament for the Illinois Knights. As a high school sophomore, he helped lead St. Joseph to a run in the Illinois AA Boys High School basketball tournament, which helped him get the attention of
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basketball coaches. At St. Joseph's, which had previously produced Isiah Thomas, he was part of a Chicago area sophomore class that included Derrick Rose and his St. Joseph's teammate
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. Turner started getting major Division I offers early in his junior year, At the beginning of his junior season, ''
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'' named him to its annual top
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basketball players list. His team went to the state sectional final before losing to
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in the sectional final. After his junior season, he was considered one of the top 25 prospects in the country in his class and he was given special mention by the ''Chicago Tribune'' and honorable mention by the
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for all-state honors. During the summer of 2006, he committed to Ohio State, which is located in
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, Ohio. Turner's decision was influenced by his relationship with his father, James Turner, who lived in
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, Ohio and whom Turner had visited every summer since he was ten years old. During his senior season, his team was listed second to Rose's
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in the preseason Tribune Chicago area high school basketball team rankings. That season, he was named to the first-team
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2006–07 Class AA all-state team, a day before Rose's Simeon eliminated Turner's St. Joseph in the Illinois Class AA supersectional. Turner and McCamey finished third and sixth to Rose in the
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voting, and the ''Chicago Tribune'' chose both of them as first team All-state selections. Turner was ranked as the #7, #13 and #16 small forward in the nation as a high school senior by
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,
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, and
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respectively. He received scholarship offers from five Big Ten Conference basketball programs, as well as Wake Forest, DePaul and Notre Dame.


College career


Freshman year

As a freshman, Turner averaged 27.1 minutes per game, 8.5
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s per game and 4.4 rebounds per game over the course of the season and finished second on the team in
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s and third in steals. Turner recorded his first career double double on January 19, 2008 at
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against the Tennessee Vols with his first 20-point game and first 10-rebound game. That season, he helped Ohio State win the 2008 National Invitation Tournament by averaging 18.5 points, 7 rebounds, 4.5 assists and 3 steals in the tournament's semifinal and final round at
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. Turner had also scored in double digits in the quarterfinal round. He was also in the starting lineup for the other two NIT games. Turner contributed at least 24 minutes as a starter in each of the five tournament games.


Sophomore year

As a sophomore, Turner was named player of the week three times during the 2008–09 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season (December 8, 2008, February 2, 2009, and February 9, 2009). On February 26, Turner became the only Big Ten player selected by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) as a Top 15 finalist for the
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. As a guard/forward for the
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team of the
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, he led his team in the following per-game statistical categories: points, rebounds, assists, and steals. Turner led the Big Ten in scoring as a sophomore. Turner and
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became the fourth and fifth players in conference history to finish in the top ten in the conference in points, rebounds and assists since assists became a statistic in 1983–84, following
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, Jim Jackson and Brian Evans. Although Turner was not selected as a preseason All-Big Ten conference player, he was the only person chosen as a unanimous first-team All Big Ten selection by both the coaches and the media at the end of the regular season. On March 5, the
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honored Turner as a District 7 (Big Ten) first-team selection along with four other sophomores. He was also chosen on March 10 by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association for its 2008–09 Men's Division I District V (OH, IN, IL, MI, MN, WI) Team, based on voting from its national membership. Turner was selected as a 2009 All-American honorable mention by the
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. On March 15, he was selected to the
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team, despite Ohio State's loss in the final game to Purdue. Turner played for the 2009 Junior USA
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team, along with conference foes
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of Purdue and Talor Battle of Penn State. He helped them to the bronze medal and a 6–1 record.


Junior year

His junior season began with numerous accolades.
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chose both
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and Turner to its 2009–10 NCAA Division I men's basketball season preseason second-team All-American list.
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preseason All-American list included him on its fifth team. Turner was named among the 50 preseason
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watch list nominees and the 50 preseason
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watchlist nominees. The 24-member Big Ten media panel selected him as a first-team preseason All-Big Ten team member. Turner, nicknamed "The Villain", opened the season by recording the first
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by a Big Ten player since January 13, 2001, and the second in school history ( Dennis Hopson was the first) during the Coaches vs. Cancer classic against Alcorn State University. This earned him his fourth career Big Ten player of the week honor and first of the 2009–10 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season. The following week, he ran his streak of double doubles to four to earn back-to-back player of the week honors. Two weeks after his first triple-double, he repeated the feat at home against
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on November 24. This earned him his third consecutive Big Ten player of the week award. On December 5, 2009, in the fourth week of the season, he suffered transverse process fractures of the second and third
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e in his back, which was expected to cause him to be inactive for two months. Turner returned early from his injury on January 6, 2010. This occurred two days after Ohio State fell out of the top 25 in the 2009–10 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings on January 4 in his absence. With Turner back in the lineup, Ohio State returned to the top 25 on January 18, and Turner earned his fourth Big Ten Player of the Week award on the same day after leading his team to wins over two ranked conference foes. Then on February 8, Turner established a new Big Ten Conference record with his eighth career Conference Player of the Week award, surpassing
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and Jackson. The fifth of the season also tied Robinson's single-season record. Two weeks after tying the single-season record, he broke the record when he averaged 24.5 points, 8.5 rebounds and 5.5 assists against two ranked conference opponents (No. 4 Purdue and at No. 11 Michigan State). Then he won the award again on March 1. Turner helped lead the Buckeyes to the regular-season co-championship of the Big Ten Conference and helped them earn the number one seed in the 2010 Big Ten Conference men's basketball tournament. On March 12, 2010, in their first game in the tournament, Turner helped the Buckeyes get a win over their arch-rival Michigan Wolverines with a last-second 37-foot three-pointer. In the second game, against Illinois, Turner scored 31 points, scoring the game-tying points to send the game to overtime and then the final four points in overtime to send the game into double overtime. Turner scored a total of 12 points in overtime. He then led Ohio State to victory in the championship game against Minnesota with another 31 points. Turner was named Tournament Most Outstanding Player and part of the All-Tournament team. Turner also repeated as the Big Ten scoring champion, and although he lost the rebounding championship to Mike Davis (9.167 to 9.161), he led the conference in defensive rebounds. He also ranked second in assists and third in steals. He improved upon his sophomore showing by becoming the first player to finish in the top two in average points (1st, 20.4), rebounds (2nd, 9.2) and assists (2nd, 6.0), becoming the first men's basketball player to do so and the first to finish in the top five in all three categories.


Awards

Turner was selected as a Midseason Top-30 finalist for the 2010
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in January. He was included on the March 15, 26-man final national ballot for the Wooden Award. From that ballot he was selected to the ten-man
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All-American team. Then the list was shortened to five finalists (Turner,
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,
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, Wesley Johnson and
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) who were flown out to Los Angeles for the announcement. On April 9, Turner was announced as the winner. In February, he was named a midseason Top 30 candidate for the
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and was announced the recipient of the award in Indianapolis April 5, 2010. Turner won the USBWA's Robertson Trophy as the consensus choice by voters in all nine geographical districts. Fox, Associated Press and ''Sporting News'' selected him as their National Player of the Year. He earned 54 of the 65 Associated Press panel members' votes. He was recognized the
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' Division I Player of the Year. By winning the Wooden, Naismith, Robertson, Fox Sports, NABC, TSN, and AP Player of the Year awards, he nearly swept all of the major player of the year awards. Wall won the
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(and
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player of the year). Turner was again the only person chosen as a unanimous first-team All Big Ten selection by both the coaches and the media at the end of the regular season and was selected as the 2010 Big Ten Men's Basketball Player of the Year. Turner was also selected as the Big Ten Conference male Athlete of the Year for all sports. Turner was selected as a first-team 2010 NCAA Men's Basketball All-American by
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, ''
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'',
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,
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,
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and Yahoo! Sports. He was also selected in March as one of six finalists for the
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. On February 16, at halftime of the
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game at
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, Turner's collegiate number, 21, was retired by Ohio State.


Professional career


Philadelphia 76ers (2010–2014)

On April 7, 2010, Turner held a press conference and announced that he would forgo his final season of collegiate eligibility and enter the 2010 NBA draft, where he was expected to be selected as one of the top 3 draft picks. Turner signed with
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's agent,
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. He was selected with the 2nd overall pick by the
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in the draft, and signed a 2-year deal with a third-year option worth an estimated $12 million. On October 27, 2010, in his debut (and also on his 22nd birthday) for the 76ers in their season opener at
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, Turner recorded 16 points, 7 rebounds, and 4 assists, coming off the bench for 30 minutes to lead the team in scoring in a 97–87 loss to the
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. On November 7, 2010, Turner got his first NBA start and ended the game with a
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, recording 14 points and 10 rebounds to go with his 3 assists, in a 106–96 win over the
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in place of the injured Andre Iguodala. On December 29, 2010, Turner scored a career-high 23 points in a 123–110 win against the
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, going 9–12 from the field and a perfect 4–4 from the free throw line. He ended the season with fourteen starts and two double-doubles. The team had gone 27–55 the previous season, but were able to improve to 41–41 in Turner's first season. They reached the 2011 NBA Playoffs as the seventh seed, and were matched up against the new-look Miami Heat led by
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and Dwyane Wade. Turner was praised for his aggressiveness in the series, handling Wade on the defensive side, and scoring 17 points and six rebounds on 50% shooting in the 76ers' win in Game 4. That would be Philadelphia's only win of the series however, as they fell to the eventual Eastern Conference Champions Miami in five games. On February 8, 2012, Turner was selected to play in the 2012 Rising Stars competition. During the game, he unveiled a new model of
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shoes. On March 7, 2012, in only his second start of the season, Turner recorded a career-high 26 points against the
Boston Celtics The Boston Celtics ( ) are an American professional basketball team based in Boston. The Celtics compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Atlantic Division. Founded in 1946 as one of t ...
. He again scored 26 points on April 3, 2012, against the
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. On April 25, 2012, he recorded another double-double while setting a career-high with 29 points and adding 13 rebounds. Over the course of the season, he made twenty starts and recorded five double-doubles. He posted his first postseason double double on May 12, 2012, against the
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in the first game of the Eastern Conference semifinals of the 2012 NBA Playoffs, with 16 points and 10 rebounds. He repeated the feat on May 21 in game five of the series, recording 10 rebounds and 11 points. He started 12 of Philadelphia's 13 playoff games, but the team was eliminated in the second round of the playoffs. Turner started all 82 games during the 2012–13 NBA season and tallied 14 double-doubles, while averaging a career high 15.3 points 6.3 rebounds and 4.3 assists. On December 7, 2012, he posted a 26-point, 10-rebound double-double against the
Boston Celtics The Boston Celtics ( ) are an American professional basketball team based in Boston. The Celtics compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Atlantic Division. Founded in 1946 as one of t ...
and made the game-winning shot in overtime with 3.9 seconds remaining. The 76ers did not sign Turner to an extension prior to the October 31, 2013, deadline, meaning that the 76ers had the right to make him a restricted free agent at the end of the season. On November 9, 2013, Turner established a new career high with 31 points, including the game-tying basket with 8.7 seconds remaining in the first overtime against the
Cleveland Cavaliers The Cleveland Cavaliers (often referred to as the Cavs) are an American professional basketball team based in Cleveland. The Cavaliers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference (NBA), Ea ...
. Turner hit the game-winning
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on December 20 against the
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. Turner sat out on December 28 due to knee soreness, but he returned to the lineup the following night against the
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with 32 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists. On January 22, 2014, Turner recorded a career-high 38 points in a 110–106 win over the
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; he also recorded 11 rebounds in the game. Turner hit the game-winning buzzer beater on January 29, 2014 against the
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.


Indiana Pacers (2014)

On February 20, 2014, Turner and
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were traded to the
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in exchange for
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and a second-round draft pick. Turner debuted for the Pacers on February 25, 2014. He scored 13 points and added 6 rebounds as part of the Pacers bench that scored a season-high 50 points against the
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. When the Pacers benched their entire starting lineup on April 6, he scored 23 to help the team to a win over the
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. On April 21, 2014, in a team practice on the eve of the team's second game of the first round of the 2014 NBA playoffs, Turner and teammate Lance Stephenson got into an altercation. In Game 6 of the first round series against
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with Indiana trailing 3–2, head coach
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changed the rotation and Turner was left out, playing no minutes, while some of his playing time went to
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. In Round 2 against the
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, he returned to the lineup. In the first game of Round 3 against the two-time defending champion
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, he sat out with
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.


Boston Celtics (2014–2016)

After Indiana elected not to make Turner an $8.7 million qualifying offer, he became an
unrestricted free agent In professional sports, a free agent is a player who is eligible to sign with other clubs or franchises; i.e., not under contract to any specific team. The term is also used in reference to a player who is under contract at present but who is a ...
. According to his agent, Turner agreed to sign with the
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on July 21, 2014. He officially signed with the Celtics on September 29, 2014. He began the season as a reserve, but when
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and
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endured concurrent injuries, Turner scored a team-high 19 points in a starting role in a win against the
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. On December 8, 2014, against the
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, Turner forced overtime by sinking a three-point shot with 0.9 seconds left in regulation, but missed a jump shot with 0.9 seconds remaining in the second overtime which would have given the Celtics the lead. Chicago native Turner posted a season-high 29 points at the
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against the
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on January 3. Turner hit his fourth (in eight attempts) career last second game winning shot with a three-pointer with 1.9 seconds left as his team trailed 89–87 against the
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on January 22, 2015. Then on February 11, 2015, he hit a game winner with 0.2 seconds left against
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. Evan Turner posted his first career
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on February 25, 2015, against the
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with 10 points, 10 assists and 12 rebounds. On March 13, 2015, Turner scored 24 of his season-high 30 points in the second half, including 16 in the fourth quarter to help the Celtics rally past the
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. He posted two more triple doubles on March 23 against the
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(19 points, 10 rebounds, and 12 assists) and on April 1 against the
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(13 points, 11 rebounds, and 12 assists). On April 10, he recorded a career-high 13 assists against the
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. Turner played every game in the 2014–15 season and finished with averages of 14.5 points, 5.1 rebounds, and a career-high 6.5 assists per game. During the offseason, he was named as a participant in the first-ever NBA Africa Game. On March 26, Turner posted a 17-point, 11-rebound double-double and blocked
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's potential game-tying shot with 3.9 seconds left against the
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.


Portland Trail Blazers (2016–2019)

On July 6, 2016, Turner signed a four-year, $70 million contract with the
Portland Trail Blazers The Portland Trail Blazers (colloquially known as the Blazers) are an American professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon. The Trail Blazers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Western Con ...
. Turner battled Maurice Harkless for the starting small forward role through the preseason, but in the end he lost out. He debuted with a 3-point, 5-rebound and 5-assist performance in a 113–104 win over the
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in 26 minutes off the bench. With Harkless injured on December 8, Turner started against the
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and notched a 15-point, 10-rebound double-double in an 88–86 loss, despite a pair of go-ahead free throws by Turner with 27 seconds left. On January 5, 2017, he scored 15 of his season-high 20 points in the fourth quarter of the Trail Blazers' 118–109 win over the
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. Turner's 11 assists off the bench on January 11 against the
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was the most by a Portland reserve in nearly 3 years. On February 8, he was ruled out for approximately five to six weeks after sustaining a fracture of the
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in his right hand the night before playing against the
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. He returned to action, wearing a protective brace, on March 18 after missing 14 games. The team was 7–7 without Turner. At the end of the season he finished with 13.0 points, the most since the 2014-15 season. He opened the 2017 NBA playoffs with a 12-point, 10-rebound double-double in a 12-point loss to the
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. The Trail Blazers were swept in four games, however. On January 1, 2018, Turner scored a season-high 22 points in a 124–120 overtime win over the
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. On April 1, 2019, Turner recorded his fourth career triple-double with 13 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists off the bench in a 132–122 win over the
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. He was a perfect 5 of 5 from the floor, making his triple-double just the seventh in NBA history to happen on five or fewer field goal attempts. Two days later, he had a second consecutive triple-double with 13 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists off the bench in a 116–89 win over the
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, becoming the first Trail Blazer with back-to-back triple-doubles since
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in the 1989–90 season. After scoring just four points in the first six games of the Trail Blazers' second-round playoff series against the
Denver Nuggets The Denver Nuggets are an American professional basketball team based in Denver. The Nuggets compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Western Conference Northwest Division. The team was founded as the D ...
, Turner had 14 points, including 10 in the fourth quarter, in the deciding Game 7, helping Portland win 100–96 to advance through to the Western Conference Finals for the first time since 2000.


Atlanta Hawks (2019–2020)

On June 24, 2019, Turner was traded to the
Atlanta Hawks The Atlanta Hawks are an American professional basketball team based in Atlanta. The Hawks compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference (NBA), Eastern Conference Southeast Division (NBA), Sou ...
in exchange for
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. On February 5, 2020, Turner was traded to the
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as part of a four-team trade, but didn't play a game for them.


Retirement

On November 30, 2020, Turner announced his retirement from professional basketball.


Coaching career

For the 2020–21 season, Turner was an assistant coach for the Boston Celtics.


NBA career statistics


Regular season

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Playoffs

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Personal life

Turner's mother is Iris James, and he has two older brothers named Darius and Richard. On August 23, 2010, CNBC reported that Turner had signed a multi-year endorsement contract with Chinese apparel maker
Li Ning Company Limited Li-Ning Company Limited is a Chinese sportswear and sports equipment company founded by former Olympic gymnast Li Ning. The company endorses a number of athletes and teams worldwide. History The company was founded in 1989 by Li Ning, a former ...
. On December 20, 2017, a
semi-trailer truck A semi-trailer truck, also known as a semitruck, (or semi, eighteen-wheeler, big rig, tractor-trailer or, by synecdoche, a semitrailer) is the combination of a tractor unit and one or more semi-trailers to carry freight. A semi-trailer ...
crashed into Turner's pool at his Portland home.


See also

* 2010 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans


References


External links


Ohio State Buckeyes bio
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Evan Turner archives
at
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