Hidayet orlando transfer

The year-old big man admitted he was not happy with how negotiations went and in turn will become a restricted free agent following the season. The goal for everybody is to see everyone getting paid. We hope it works out for him.

The biggest thing we know we can do is go out there and win games. Monty [Williams] talks about it, too. It makes sense. We talk about everything on this team. Uncategorized Chris Paul , Phoenix Suns. Marc Stein: The Sixers have stopped fining Ben Simmons for missed games and practices given that he is now out for personal reasons, one source close to the situation says, confirming a report this afternoon from Ramona Shelburne on the NBA Today.

More from me: marcstein. Former NBA star Hidayet Turkoglu has denied media reports that he is stepping down as the head of the Turkish Basketball Federation and was fired from his job as an adviser to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for refusing to move his fortune from the United States to Turkey.

Turkoglu blamed the rumors on putative rivals seeking to dethrone him in upcoming federation elections. The opposition daily Cumhuriyet, citing sources close to Erdogan, claimed pressure on Turkoglu to transfer his alleged million-euro fortune to Turkey had come from the Turkish leader himself.

When Turkoglu declined to comply, he got the boot and was getting ready to move back to the United States. The ethnic Bosnian forward, who played for six NBA teams during his season career among them the San Antonio Spurs, Orlando Magic and Los Angeles Clippers , is among a circle of sports personalities who are staunch defenders of the Turkish president, including German Turkish soccer star Mesut Ozil.

But there are other globally acclaimed Turkish sports celebrities batting for the opposite team. Enes Kanter of the Portland Trail Blazers is an overt disciple of Fethullah Gulen, the Pennsylvania-based Sunni preacher who is accused of masterminding the failed coup to violently overthrow Erdogan.

Gulen denies the charges, though there is visual evidence, among other incriminating details, showing several of his associates at the Ankara airbase on the night the putsch unfolded. The United States has thus far spurned demands for his extradition on the grounds that the evidence presented by Ankara against him is insufficient to warrant such action.

Kanter and former Turkish national soccer squad captain Hakan Sukur, a fellow Gulen devotee who also resides in the United States, are also formally wanted by Turkey.