Not that anyone cares but Evan Turner said he ‘can’t stand Philadelphia’ on the NBC pregame broadcast

Drew Smith
March 30, 2026
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The Sixers are in Miami playing a massive game for playoff seeding on NBC’s national broadcast tonight. Thankfully it is on NBC because I genuinely could not sit through Kate Scott again with this much on the line. Too important.

On that broadcast, Evan Turner was in the pregame studio for reasons that remain unclear. He dropped the following line without context, without setup, and without either of the other two people on the set asking him a single follow-up question.

Evan Turner trying to be relevant:

"I can't stand Philadelphia" – Evan Turner on NBC pregame pic.twitter.com/T5mJlC4USI
— Nick Piccone (@_piccone) March 30, 2026

“I can’t stand Philadelphia.” – Evan Turner

That was it. Nothing before it. Nothing after it. Just vibes from the number two overall pick in the 2010 NBA Draft who turned into a solid role player when Philadelphia needed a superstar and has apparently been sitting on feelings about it ever since.

Evan Turner is one of the more notable draft disappointments in Sixers history and that is saying something given the organization’s track record. The guy the Sixers could have taken with that pick instead of Turner was Paul George.

You know Paul George, the guy currently playing in Philadelphia, hooping in a Sixers uniform, on the same national broadcast Evan Turner is using to announce his feelings about the city.

The irony is genuinely something.

This is also not the first time Turner has taken shots. In May 2024 he went on a podcast and said Embiid and George would be soft together. The injury track record gives that some surface-level ammunition but the broader point was always nonsense from a guy who never came close to being the player people needed him to be.

Nobody knew Evan Turner was on the NBC broadcast before tonight. Nobody was tuning in for Evan Turner. The only reason anyone is talking about him is because he said something designed to get exactly this reaction and it worked.

Good for him I guess. He never became what Philadelphia drafted him to be. The city moved on. Apparently he has not.

Good riddance.