{"id":28633,"date":"2010-12-09T03:29:03","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T01:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=28633"},"modified":"2023-04-05T14:24:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T11:24:49","slug":"shaquille-oneal-to-play-in-turkey-next-year-says-guy-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/12\/09\/shaquille-oneal-to-play-in-turkey-next-year-says-guy-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaquille O&#8217;Neal To Play In Turkey Next Year Says Guy In Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Baumer | Dec. 8, 2010, 12:32 PM | 57 |<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-28635\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/shaq.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/shaq.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/shaq-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Seref Yalcin, the general manager of Besiktas, the Turkish basketball team that Allen Iverson plays for, says that Shaquille O&#8217;Neal told him he&#8217;s coming to Turkey next year.<\/p>\n<p>Yalcin understands people might doubt his claim, but insists that it&#8217;s true:<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Some people will still come out and said \u2018Shaq won\u2019t come to Turkey&#8221; Yalcin said. &#8216;But the chances are very high.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Shaq does have a player option with the Boston Celtics next year, but with doubts that the season will start on time, or be held at all, it&#8217;s possible that he&#8217;s serious about continuing his career overseas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Baumer | Dec. 8, 2010, 12:32 PM | 57 | Seref Yalcin, the general manager of Besiktas, the Turkish basketball team that Allen Iverson plays for, says that Shaquille O&#8217;Neal told him he&#8217;s coming to Turkey next year. Yalcin understands people might doubt his claim, but insists that it&#8217;s true: &#8216;Some people will still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":28635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3996],"tags":[2528,3997,4783,4784],"class_list":["post-28633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-besiktas","tag-iverson","tag-shaq","tag-shaquille-oneal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}