Overview
- The NBPA announced Turner’s election on Wednesday, Sept. 16, and he began an immediate three-year term as a vice president on the Executive Committee.
- Turner fills the vacancy left by Garrett Temple, who retired after the 2025–26 season and has joined Dusty May’s Dallas Mavericks staff as an assistant coach.
- Players elected Turner despite his past public criticism of the Bucks’ locker-room culture, signaling peer confidence in his willingness to speak up and lead.
- Turner brings on-court experience and off-court work to the role: he signed a four-year, $108 million deal in 2025, averaged 11.9 points and 1.6 blocks in 2025–26, and founded the W.A.R.M. foundation and The Casper Foundation.
- Turner will join President Fred VanVleet and eight other player leaders at a moment when the NBPA, working with executive director David Kelly, will confront media-rights changes, CBA financial and roster rules, and possible expansion talks.