İsmet Akpınar

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Basketball player
İsmet Akpınar
Akpınar in the 2017 national jersey
Player information
Nickname Izi
birthday 22nd May 1995 (age 25)
place of birth Hamburg, Germany
size 190 cm
position Point Guard / Shooting Guard
Jersey number 8th
Clubs as active
2011–2013 SC Rist Wedel / Piraten Hamburg ( NBBL )GermanyGermany
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2013–2017 Alba Berlin 2017–2019 Ratiopharm Ulm 2019–2020 Besiktas Istanbul 2020 FC Bayern Munich Since 2020 Bahçeşehir BasketbolGermanyGermany
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İsmet Akpınar (born May 22, 1995 in Hamburg ) is a German - Turkish basketball player . Akpınar made his debut at the age of 16 in the third-highest German division ProB for men and moved to the first division club Alba Berlin in 2013 . In 2014, the German youth international won the runner-up with the men's team from Alba and the German championship with the juniors in the junior basketball league (NBBL), where he was named “ Most Valuable Player (MVP)”).

Career

Akpınar began his career in the youth department of BC Hamburg . In the ProB 2011/12 , Akpınar was already regularly used in the men's team at SC Rist Wedel at the age of 16 and there, including the following season, averaged almost 20 minutes per game. Akpınar played for the Hamburg cooperation team Piraten in the NBBL and was named Rookie of the Year in the NBBL in 2012, having received the award for best player in the youth basketball league (JBBL) a year earlier . In the home win of the Pirates Hamburg in February 2013 against the Metropol Baskets Ruhr, Akpınar set a new record for the NBBL with 49 points scored in one game.

For the 2013/14 season Akpınar was committed by the first division club Alba Berlin. In addition to the junior team in the NBBL, Akpınar was initially mainly used in the reserve team in the regional league . With the Alba Juniors, Akpınar moved into the NBBL Top Four for the first time in four years , where the Alba Juniors won their second NBBL championship title after 2009. After Akpınar had already received the award as the best player of the season, he was named the first ever MVP of the final tournament after winning the championship. In Alba’s first division team, Akpınar only had five short appearances in the basketball league in 2013/14 as well as one use in the play-offs for the championship, when Alba finally lost the final series of the championship against the main round first FC Bayern Munich and was runner-up in the men's category has been.

In the following years he received larger shares of the game in Berlin, he achieved the best statistical values ​​of his Alba time in the 2016/17 game year, when he was on the field in 36 Bundesliga games on average for around fourteen and a half minutes and scored 4.4 points per game. In May 2017 he was awarded the title of “Best German Young Player U22” in the Bundesliga. For the 2017/18 season Akpınar moved from Berlin to Bundesliga competitor Ratiopharm Ulm . After he had achieved good averages of 8.9 points and 2.1 basket assists in his first year in Ulm, he knew how to increase these numbers to 9.7 and 3.1 respectively in the 2018/19 game year. The development player rejected an offer from Ulm to extend his contract and left the team during the 2019 summer break.

In summer 2019 he left the Bundesliga and joined the Turkish first division club Besiktas Istanbul , with whom he also took part in the basketball Champions League . After the end of the game year in the Turkish league due to the COVID-19 pandemic , FC Bayern Munich signed him for the Bundesliga season-end tournament at the end of May 2020 .

In July 2020, his move to the Turkish club Bahçeşehir Basketbol was announced.

National team

Akpınar took part with the youth teams of the German Basketball Federation in the 2011 U16 European Championship, the  2012 Albert Schweitzer Tournament , the 2012 and 2013 U18 European Championship (B group) and the 2014 U20 European Championship and 2015. In the summer of 2017, he was appointed to the German senior national team for the first time and took part in the European Championship that same year . At the 2019 World Cup , he scored an average of 4.2 points per encounter in five tournament games.

family

His brother Mutlu , who is twelve years older than him, is also a basketball player and has been playing in the top Turkish division Türkiye Basketbol Ligi for more than a decade .

Achievements & Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ International match statistics SB Vision Mahr
  2. ↑ Frank Will: Youth national player Ismet Akpinar is missing Rist. In: Abendblatt.de. Retrieved February 6, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Player Statistics - Ismet Akpinar. Basketball Bundesliga , archived from the original on February 6, 2016 ; accessed on January 13, 2015 (player profile on statistics pages).
  4. ^ A b Awards of the youth basketball league. Junior Basketball League , accessed on January 13, 2015 (Chronicle of NBBL Awards).
  5. ↑ Awards of the youth basketball league. Junior Basketball League , archived from the original on January 18, 2015 ; Retrieved January 13, 2015 (Chronicle of the JBBL Awards).
  6. ↑ Peter Kirnich: Alba is reaping the fruits of its junior program. Berliner Zeitung , March 24, 2014, accessed on January 13, 2015 .
  7. ↑ 15 MATCH DAY - SEASON 2012/2013 / Piraten Hamburg 92 - Metropol Baskets Ruhr 75th Junior Basketball League , accessed on January 13, 2015 (match statistics).
  8. ↑ NBBL / JBBL TOP4 2014. Junior Basketball League , archived from the original on January 19, 2015 ; accessed on January 13, 2015 (match reports and award ceremonies).
  9. ↑ easyCredit - Awards: Leibenath "Trainer of the Year" - Award for Akpinar. Retrieved May 5, 2017 .
  10. ↑ "Izi" Akpinar changes from the Spree River to the Danube. In: basketball-ulm.com. June 7, 2017. Retrieved June 7, 2017 .
  11. ↑ https://ratiopharmulm.com/news/patrick-heckmann-kom-aus-bamberg-nach-ulm-469/
  12. ↑ Ismet Akpinar is moving from Ulm to Istanbul. In: basketball.de. July 30, 2019, accessed July 30, 2019 .
  13. ↑ FCBB without Nihad Djedovic and Greg Monroe, but with Ismet Akpinar. In: FC Bayern Munich Basketball. Retrieved May 25, 2020 .
  14. ↑ İsmet Akpınar, Bahçeşehir'e transfer oldu. In: ajansspor.com. Retrieved July 11, 2020 .
  15. ↑ http://basketball.eurobasket.com/player/Ismet_Akpinar/Germany/Ratiopharm-Ulm/202006
  16. ↑ DBB Men 2017 nominated. Deutscher Basketball Bund (DBB), July 12, 2017, accessed on July 13, 2017 .
  17. ↑ http://www.fiba.basketball/eurobasket/2017/Germany#%7Ctab=roster
  18. ↑ Allemagne at the FIBA ​​Coupe du Monde de Basketball 2019. Retrieved September 14, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Akpinar Mutlu - Turkish Basketball League Player. TBLStat.net, accessed on January 13, 2015 (English, player profile on statistics pages ).
personal data
SURNAME Akpınar, İsmet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Akpinar, Ismet (German spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Turkish basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg , Germany