İbrahim Kutluay

İbrahim Kutluay
Player information
birthday	7th January 1974 (age 46)
place of birth	Yalova , Turkey
size	198 cm
Weight	95 kg
position	Shooting Guard
NBA draft	undrafted, 1996
Clubs as active
1993–1999 Fenerbahçe 1999–2000 Efes Pilsen 2000–2001 AEK Athens 2001–2003 Panathinaikos Athens 2003–2004 Ülker Istanbul 2004–2005 Seattle SuperSonics 2005 Panathinaikos Athens 2005–2006 Ülker Istanbul 2006–2007 Fenerbahçe 2007–2008 PAOK Thessaloniki 2008–2009 ITÜ Basketbol Takımı 00000
National team
0000000 00	Turkey

İbrahim Kutluay (born January 7, 1974 in Yalova , Turkey ) is a former Turkish basketball player who played at a height of 1.98 m on the position of the shooting guard .

Club career

İbrahim Kutluay started his career at Fenerbahce Istanbul, where he was under contract until 1999. After a one-year stint at Efes Pilsen Istanbul , he moved abroad for the first time in the summer of 2000 and signed a one-year contract with AEK Athens in Greece, where he won his first title with the Greek Cup. In 2001, Kutluay moved to league rivals and Greek record champions Panathinaikos Athens , where he should have the most successful period of his career. In addition to the 2003 double , Kutluay was also able to win the ULEB Euroleague 2002, where he was the most successful scorer of his team with 22 points in the final.

After Kutluay returned to Turkey for a season, he moved to the NBA in 2004 for the Seattle SuperSonics . Since Kutluay was hardly used in Seattle, however, he returned to Panathinaikos in early 2005, where he was able to win the double again. After a stint at the Turkish first division club Fenerbahçe Ülker , Kutluay signed a contract with the Greek club PAOK Thessaloniki on December 31, 2007 . From summer 2008 to summer 2009 he played for the Turkish second division ITÜ Basketbol Takımı. Here he came to a few missions due to injury, whereupon he ended his active career as a player in summer 2009.

National team

Kutluay was an integral part and also captain of the Turkish national team and participated with this in several European and world championships. Outstanding is the 2001 European Championship, which Kutluay was able to finish as a silver medalist in his own country.

successes

• Greek champion : 2003, 2005
• Turkish champion: 1991, 2006, 2007
• Greek Cup Winner : 2001, 2003, 2005
• Turkish Cup Winner: 2004
• ULEB Euroleague : 2002
• Vice European Champion: 2001
• Participation in European championships: 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2005
• Participation in world championships: 2002, 2006

Awards

• All-Star (Greece): 2002
• Greek Cup Final MVP : 2001
• MVP of the Greek All Star Games: 2002
• Winner of the Three Point Shootout of the Greek All-Star Game: 2002
• All-Star First Team at the EM 2001
• All-Star Third Team at the 1997 European Championship

At the beginning of 2008, Kutluay was one of a group of 105 basketball players who were nominated by the EuroLeague in order to be able to determine fifty important personalities in the sport of basketball in Europe , active between 1958 and 2008, and to honor them in May 2008 in Madrid (Spain) . All nominated players played a particularly prominent role in the European Cup competitions of FIBA Europe and the Euroleague basketball and were each among the particularly prominent "stars" of their national league teams.

Individual evidence

1. ^ NN: The All-Time Player Nominees. ( Memento of January 2, 2015 on the Internet Archive ) Archived from EuroLeague website; Barcelona, ​​January 2, 2015. Accessed February 2, 2019.