"Jeffrey Steven Turner" is a retired American professional basketball player and broadcasting announcer. Turner played ten NBA seasons (1984–1987; 1989–1996), spending time with the New Jersey Nets as well as the Orlando Magic. He ended his NBA career with 3,697 career points. Turner was a 6' 9" Power forward (basketball)/forward/Center (basketball)/center. After his career ended he spent nine years as a radio color commentator for the Magic. He then served as the head boys basketball coach at Lake Highland Preparatory School in Orlando, Florida from to 2005 to 2013, where he compiled a 151-72 record and won the state title in 2013. From 2011 to 2013 he was also a studio analyst for Magic games. In 2013, Turner was named television color commentator for the Magic.

Turner starred as a college player for Vanderbilt University. He was selected by the New Jersey Nets with the 17th pick of the 1984 NBA Draft.

Turner was a member of the Gold Medal 1984 U.S. Olympic Games/Olympic basketball team coached by Bobby Knight. The team included Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing and Steve Alford. Turner also played for the United States men's national basketball team/US national team in the 1982 FIBA World Championship, winning the silver medal.

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He's mature beyond his years, and he's only going to get better.

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We were disappointed in the city council but not surprised.

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It takes time to gel, no doubt about. You can't come in and plug a hole, you've got work at it.

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We've been wanting him to do that since Day 1. I think he was fed up.

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We were in the bonus in the first half and had a chance to extend our lead. It was like a different game in the second half. We made 20 second-half fouls.

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The responsibility of the school district is to prepare for the future and make sure we are able to provide facilities and a high level of education to every student. Should there be future developments, we will have land there to create buildings.

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He was trying to do too much too quick when he got in there. We told the kids at halftime that going into the fourth quarter, we wanted that lead cut in half. We did better than that.

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We are encouraged because there is plenty of case law that shows that a large urban city can't make decisions that adversely affect the suburbs.

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AT&T will be really aggressive in terms of moving into this space.

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