Myles Turner spent the weekend in Chicago, in and around the NBA All-Star activities. He was a color commentator on TNT's broadcast of the Rising Stars Challenge on Friday and soaked up plenty of the glamour of the festivities before heading to Turks and Caicos for a couple of days of relaxation.
It made him wonder a little.
Three years ago, he was a second-year center who had scored 30 points and grabbed 16 rebounds in the season-opener and would go on to average 14.5 points on 51 percent shooting. He played in the Rising Stars game then, scoring 12 points and grabbing four rebounds in 18 minutes, and many people would have predicted then — not unreasonably — that he would play in the main event someday.