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Jorge Sierra: Anthony Edwards (age 23) passed all these players in playoff scoring in tonight's loss Toni Kukoc Jamal Crawford Hedo Turkoglu Hersey Hawkins Bryon Russell Eddie Jones He's No. 229 all-time now.
Hedo Turkoglu was re-elected as president of the Turkish Basketball Federation on Tuesday. He has served as TBF president since 2016 and was re-elected in 2021. A regular convention was held in Ankara, focusing on the elections for TBF president.
Jason Beede: From left to right: Nick Anderson, Bo Outlaw, Rashard Lewis, Hedo Turkoglu and Jalen Suggs are answering questions from Ryan Anderson while wearing #Magic jerseys from their respective eras.
From left to right: Nick Anderson, Bo Outlaw, Rashard Lewis, Hedo Turkoglu and Jalen Suggs are answering questions from Ryan Anderson while wearing #Magic jerseys from their respective eras. pic.twitter.com/AsgNfhlPWi
— Jason Beede (@therealBeede) September 15, 2023
Pekovic will be officially proposed to become the new president of the Federation in an upcoming board meeting this Thursday and is expected to to be elected to the position in the upcoming weeks. He will join the likes of former players such as Hedo Turkoglu, Andrei Kirilenko and Jorge Garbajosa in being elected at the helm of his country Basketball Federation.
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This list includes a few new names, like Finals MVP Maxwell, while some big men compilers fall off. Other notable recent players who come close to the top 10 include Nene (11th by peak value), Brent Barry (12th), Richard Jefferson (15th), Mike Bibby (18th), and Hedo Turkoglu (19th).
Josh Robbins: Tonight, Nikola Vucevic will play his 498th regular-season game with the Magic. He'll move into sole possession of sixth place on the franchise's career games list. At tipoff, he's tied with Hedo Turkoglu, who played 497 regular-season games for Orlando.
Scott Anez: Stan Van Gundy on the 10th anniversary of LeBron’s game winning trey over Hedo to beat our @Orlando Magic in the ECF’s— “I have that image in my head every day of my life. It’s the most regrettable decision I made in my playoff career.”
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The volatile, longstanding dispute between Portland Trail Blazers center Enes Kanter and Turkish government officials has added another chapter, this time in separate interviews conducted by E:60's Jeremy Schaap, with Kanter again comparing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to a dictator, and former NBA player Hedo Turkoglu, now a Turkish government official, accusing Kanter of abandoning his homeland to support a "terrorist."
Turkoglu spoke carefully and deliberately to Schaap, saying that Kanter has been "openly supporting a terrorist leader" -- Fethullah Gulen. Gulen is a U.S.-based Turkish cleric who has been living in exile from Turkey since 1999; he is Kanter's spiritual adviser and a bitter rival of Erdogan's. The Turkish government has accused Gulen of masterminding a failed military coup in the country in 2016. Gulen has denied the allegation, and the U.S. government has rejected Turkey's requests to extradite him from his home in Pennsylvania.
In his interview, Turkoglu repeatedly referenced Gulen as a terrorist and Kanter's support of him as treasonous. Turkoglu said Kanter uses his NBA stardom as a "platform for propaganda of [a] terrorist leader." He said he spoke to E:60 to raise awareness about Turkey's view of Kanter and Gulen. "So, obviously, it's our job sometimes to speak loudly and clearly to inform everybody about the real situation."
Former NBA player Hedo Turkoglu, now a chief adviser to the president of Turkey, says comments by Enes Kanter about the country are nothing more than an ongoing "political smear campaign" by the New York Knicks center. Kanter earlier this week said he would not travel with the Knicks to London for a game against the Washington Wizards on Jan. 17 because he fears for his life because of his ongoing clash with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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