NBA - Evan Turner's Top Plays of 2013/2014 Season

(Image - Evan Turner & the Sixers celebrate following Turner's Game Winning Buckeye against the Celtics - Boston, Massachusetts - 1.29.2014) 

Turner's Top Plays - Time is certainly flying, it does not seem like that long ago that Evan Turner was breaking the hearts of Michigan fans with an improbable buzzer beater in the Big Ten Tournament of his Junior year in NCAA Basketball. But the former Ohio State Buckeye has already completed four professional basketball seasons in the National Basketball Association.

The 2013/2014 Season was the most eventful pro stint for Turner. He played 54 games with Philadelphia (averaging 17ppg) before a February trade that sent him to the Indiana Pacers, a playoff contender that would later be embroiled in controversy & disappointment in the last part of the regular season and playoffs.

Lost in all the trade talk in Philly and the discussion of how Turner would fit in with the Pacers is that Evan had some big time moments last season..most notably in the clutch in his final season in a 76ers Jersey with two game winner games (vs Brooklyn & Boston) and a memorable opening night dunk against a contending Lebron James. We included those 3 plays in our favorite  top 5 Turner plays for the 2013/2014 season..along with a 360 Dunk in Los Angeles and a clutch spin move and lay up on Mario Chalmers to help the Pacers defeat the Miami Heat in a heated regular season contest.

#5. - 12.29.2013 - Los Angeles, California - In a video titled 'controversial dunk' - Turner performs a 360 dunk in the waning seconds of a victory versus the Lakers. Perhaps not the most classy thing to do..Evan seems contrite afterwards..but basketball ethics/etiquette or not, how about the sick dunk! LOL

 

 #4. - 10.30.2013 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Opening night the NBA Season versus the defending Champion Miami Heat. It is early in the game and Turner finds himself with the ball in transition with League MVP Lebron James defending. Lebron went up with one hand, and Evan went up with two hands around the ball...the result? An epic career poster dunk for Evan Turner. We admit, it didn't seem like Bron was in full block mode on this play, but he did make a swipe/block attempt at the ball and Turner did beat his defense for the dunk so James is definitely in this poster. Evan can say he dunked on Lebron. (No, not a beastly dunk on where there is contact like a Carter on Mourning, but this play still qualifies)

 

 #3. - 3.26.2014 - Indianapolis, Indiana - Miami Heat at Indiana Pacers..a late regular season game with a playoff type of atmosphere and play. This was one intense, chippy, and physical game. With starting SG Lance Stephenson ejected, Turner came up with two critical buckets in the 4th quarter, one coming at the 1:35 mark with the Pacers down 80-79. Turner received a perimeter pass from George Hill, he then put Miami Heat guard Mario Chalmers in the spin cycle with a brilliant right to left spin move en-route to the easy layup. This game showed that Turner could play big for the Pacers when it counted..but for whatever reason it seemed as if he just did not fit in with Indiana as well as he could have (He could have been a much bigger help if he had spent more than two months with Indy..but the Pacers had a multitude of problems heading into the Playoffs) 


#2. - 1.29.2014 - Boston, Massachusetts - Game winner #1 - Last possession of the game, Evan Turner crosses over Jerryd Bayless and pulls up over fellow Buckeye Jared Sullinger for the game winning shot!

 

 #1. - 12.20.2013 - Philadelphia, Pennslyvania - Brooklyn 120 Philly 119 in Overtime. Turner gets the ball with 3.9 seconds remaining. He uses a Spencer Hawes dribble hand off slash ball screen to lose man defender Shaun Livingston..a quick hesitation allows him to dash past center Brook Lopez, and the play and game finally ends with Turner shooting the game winning shot over Paul Pierce who attempts to draw a charge by sliding over