{"id":405482,"date":"2022-09-07T03:19:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T03:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=405482"},"modified":"2022-09-07T03:26:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T03:26:00","slug":"76ers-furkan-korkmaz-breaks-his-silence-after-being-assaulted-by-georgian-players-and-30-security-officers-after-a-recent-eurobasket-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/76ers-furkan-korkmaz-breaks-his-silence-after-being-assaulted-by-georgian-players-and-30-security-officers-after-a-recent-eurobasket-match\/","title":{"rendered":"76ers Furkan Korkmaz Breaks His Silence After Being Assaulted by Georgian Players and 30-Security Officers After a Recent EuroBasket Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Philadelphia 76ers guard Furkan Korkmaz, is currently taking part in the Euro basket tournament. Last night, Korkmaz\u2019s Turkey took on Georgia in what was billed to be an extremely entertaining and close encounter. While the game started off well with both sides attacking well, it soured towards the end as Korkmaz picked up two technical fouls following an altercation with Georgia\u2019s Duda Sanadze.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Never saw this fire under Furkan Korkmaz<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r58IYiASAg\">pic.twitter.com\/r58IYiASAg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Paul C (@HurtsyIvania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HurtsyIvania\/status\/1566542903538851840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Korkmaz and Sanadze got into an extremely heated argument and had to be separated by their teammates, at this point in time, the crowd also got involved and started throwing items onto the court. In the end, Georgia beat Turkey 88-83 in double overtime. However, Turkey has officially protested the outcome of the game, claiming that 22 seconds were taken off the clock in the final period.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unfortunately, reports from Korkmaz and his camp have cast a dark shadow over the result and sportsmanship in general from the Georgians. It was revealed that while Korkmaz was walking back to the dressing room, he was attacked by Georgian players and security guards.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Furkan Korkmaz breaks his silence<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Korkmaz shared what happened with the media in a recent interview. He said, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAs soon as we walked out of the tunnel and were trying to reach the locker room, I saw three Georgian players alongside two security guys running at us. We started throwing punches at each other. That&#8217;s basically what happened.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Furkan Korkmaz about Sanadze: First he started talking shit to me, I am not anybody to talk shit on my face. \u0130 reacted as a human being, as a man, I just showed reaction.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eurohoops (@Eurohoopsnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eurohoopsnet\/status\/1566763294995763203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Korkmaz continued, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;It was like a street fight. There was no talk or conversation. People just came at us and were trying to attack us. Of course, we reacted and tried to defend ourselves \u2014 exactly what we are going to do as men. I also think it&#8217;s a security problem. But I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s a security problem or if they just showed tolerance to their players.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_405485\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-405485\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-405485\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/09\/image02-5-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/09\/image02-5-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/09\/image02-5-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/09\/image02-5-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/09\/image02-5-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/09\/image02-5-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/09\/image02-5-2048x1366.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-405485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NEW YORK, NEW YORK &#8211; JANUARY 18: Furkan Korkmaz #30 of the Philadelphia 76ers passes the ball during the first half against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden on January 18, 2020 in New York City. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Sarah Stier\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following the incident, the Turkish federation Vice President Omer Onan told the media that he reached out to the FIBA to take a look at the matter and threatened to leave the tournament altogether if no action was taken against the Georgian team.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Korkmaz is set to enter his second year of a three-year $15 million deal with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/sixers\">76ers<\/a> this fall.\u00a0 Furkan Korkmaz averaged 7.6 points and 2.6 rebounds last season with the 76ers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/giannis-antetokounmpo-dominates-the-eurobasket-as-he-looks-to-end-greeces-16-year-medal-drought\/\">Giannis Antetokounmpo Dominates the EuroBasket As He Looks to End Greece\u2019s 16-Year Medal Drought<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/thats-a-fact-jr-smith-reveals-that-he-was-100-blackballed-by-the-nba-after-his-2018-nba-finals-disaster\/\">\u201cThat\u2019s a Fact\u201d: JR Smith Reveals That He Was \u2018100%\u2019 Blackballed By the NBA After His 2018 NBA Finals Disaster<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia 76ers guard Furkan Korkmaz, is currently taking part in the Euro basket tournament. Last night, Korkmaz\u2019s Turkey took on Georgia in what was billed to be an extremely entertaining and close encounter. While the game started off well with both sides attacking well, it soured towards the end as Korkmaz picked up two technical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":405484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,690],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","category-philadelphia-76ers-sixers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}