Well Before The Season Started Myles Turner Basically Spoke This Entire Pacers Run To The Finals Into Existence

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All postseason long, it's felt like the Indiana Pacers were on your classic "team of destiny" run. Not just because they punched their ticket back to the Finals for the first time in 25 years, but more so how they've done it. 

They are the first and only team to have four different 17+ point comeback wins in a single playoff run in the play-by-play era. Pulling out insane wins that have been losses for about 99.9% of other teams in their position all throughout NBA history is your classic "team of destiny" stuff.

There's also something to be said about self-belief, and speaking things into existence. You may think it's corny or fake and all that stuff, but I'd disagree. Sometimes, success begins with your mindset. You need to convince yourself not only that you're capable, but that it's actually going to happen. In sports, we hear about that kind of thing all the time. About how players visualized the moment they finally reached the top of the mountain, and in turn spoke it into existence. If you don't believe it can and will happen, who will, ya know?

Which brings us to Myles Turner this past September, long before the NBA season began. Let me ask you, does this sound like what happened in the 2024-25 NBA season?

For a fan without a dog in this fight and who has no real rooting interest in whoever actually wins the title, it's hard not to be happy for Myles Turner. The longest tenured Pacer, one of their best players in franchise history, a guy that has been tossed in every single trade rumor for a decade, someone who you never heard demand a trade out of a small market team etc, it's cool that players like that get rewarded like this. 

I think the lesson here is bigger than just Turner speaking their Finals appearance into existence. This shit applies to your everyday life, no matter what it is. Could be a job, could be school, could be relationships, could be anything really. It's like that saying where thoughts become words, and then words become action. I know it sounds corny and fake and all that stuff, but I truly think that type of mentality is half the battle when trying to achieve your goals. Hell, I remember when I first started blogging here back in 2015 for free, a huge motivating factor for me was speaking into existence and truly believing that one day, this would become my full-time life. I had to fully convince myself that the grind was going to be worth it, even if the path wasn't always clear. It took about 3 years to accomplish, but here we are.

For Myles Turner, it may have taken 10 years, but he and the Pacers have done it. They broke through and got over the hump, something that plenty of teams never get to experience. 

Something tells me, without that ultimate belief that they could do it way back in September, they probably aren't sitting here on the brink of their first-ever title.