Furkan Korkmaz

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Basketball player
Furkan Korkmaz
Korkmaz in 2017
Player information
birthday July 24, 1997 (23 years and 39 days)
place of birth Bakırköy , Turkey
size 197 cm
position Guard
NBA draft 2016 , 26th Pick, Philadelphia 76ers
Clubs as active
2014-2016 TurkeyTurkey Anadolu Efes SK
2016-2017 TurkeyTurkey Banvit BK
since 2017 United StatesUnited States Philadelphia 76ers
National team
TurkeyTurkey Turkey

Furkan Korkmaz (born July 24, 1997 in Bakırköy ) is a Turkish basketball player .

career

In 2014, Korkmaz moved from second division Pertevniyal SK to first division top team Anadolu Efes SK . As early as the 2014/15 season, he also played in the EuroLeague . Korkmaz signed up for the NBA draft in 2016 and was selected by the Philadelphia 76ers , who put him 26th in the process. However, Korkmaz stayed in his home country for the time being, moving from Anadolu Efes to Banvit within the first division during the 2016/17 season.

In early July 2017, Philadelphia exercised its rights to the Turk and provided him with a contract. In the 2017/18 season he commuted between the NBA and the NBA G-League , and missed parts of the game year due to a foot injury.

National team

In 2014 he was U18 European champion with the Turkish national team and a year later he was third in the U19 World Cup. Also in 2015 he won silver at the U18 European Championship and was the best basket scorer of the Turkish selection with 16.1 points per tournament. At the 2019 World Cup, Korkmaz was the top performer of the Turkish national team with 11.8 points per match.

Web links

Commons : Furkan Korkmaz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Furkan Korkmaz profile, FIBA ​​EuroBasket 2017. Accessed October 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ BasketFaul: Genç Erkekler Türkiye Şampiyonları & MVP. Retrieved October 15, 2019 (Turkish).
  3. ↑ KORKMAZ, FURKAN - Welcome to EUROLEAGUE BASKETBALL. Retrieved October 15, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Eric Stephen: Last year's NBA Draft pick-by-pick results. June 23, 2016, accessed October 15, 2019 .
  5. ^ Korkmaz, Furkan - Turkish Basketball Super League Player. Retrieved October 15, 2019 .
  6. ^ Furkan Korkmaz officially signs deal with Sixers. July 4, 2017, accessed October 15, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Sixers rookie (not that one) gets crash course in recovery. March 9, 2018, accessed October 15, 2019 .
  8. ↑ archive.fiba.com: Players. Retrieved October 15, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Turkey at the FIBA ​​Basketball World Cup 2019. Accessed October 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Korkmaz, Furkan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Bakırköy