{"id":28643,"date":"2010-12-09T03:34:08","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T01:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=28643"},"modified":"2023-04-05T14:24:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T11:24:45","slug":"turkish-gm-shaq-plans-to-play-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/12\/09\/turkish-gm-shaq-plans-to-play-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish GM: Shaq Plans to Play in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-28645\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/shaq1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/shaq1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/shaq1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>That phrase\u00a0has been Shaq&#8217;s refrain since he joined the Boston Celtics.\u00a0He would\u00a0play 700 more days in the NBA, two more seasons, and try to win two more championships. Then, he would retire from the NBA for good, a legend walking away from the game he loves.<\/p>\n<p>With\u00a0Shaq&#8217;s promise of\u00a0700 days in mind, take the following words of a Turkish GM with a grain of salt. (Hoops Notes, via Ajansspor.com)<\/p>\n<p>After bringing Allen Iverson, Besiktas now pushed for the transfer of the Boston Celtics\u2019 star Shaquille O\u2019Neal. Seref Yalcin, GM of the Turkish club, said he was in the United States to meet with the center who said to him: &#8220;I want to be champion this season with Boston. But I\u2019m coming to Turkey next year.&#8221; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome people will still come out and said \u2018Shaq won\u2019t come to Turkey\u2019,\u201d Yalcin added. \u201cBut the chances are very high.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shaq&#8217;s defection would be most likely in the case of a lockout, and would be possible because the second year of his contract (according to Sham Sports) is a player option.\u00a0The Big Diesel\u00a0could still take his talents to Turkey if there is no lockout, but &#8212;\u00a0and I repeat &#8212;\u00a0he has always maintained his &#8220;700 days&#8221; stance. It seems\u00a0unlikely he would skip out on his final year in Boston for a lesser league in a foreign country.<\/p>\n<p>This news is weird, right?\u00a0I definitely didn&#8217;t wake up this morning\u00a0with the thought, &#8220;Today, I bet Shaq declares his desire to play in Turkey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>via Turkish GM: Shaq Plans to Play in Turkey &#8211; CelticsBlog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That phrase\u00a0has been Shaq&#8217;s refrain since he joined the Boston Celtics.\u00a0He would\u00a0play 700 more days in the NBA, two more seasons, and try to win two more championships. Then, he would retire from the NBA for good, a legend walking away from the game he loves. With\u00a0Shaq&#8217;s promise of\u00a0700 days in mind, take the following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":28645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3996],"tags":[2528,4783,4784],"class_list":["post-28643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-besiktas","tag-shaq","tag-shaquille-oneal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28643","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=28643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}