Miami Heat’s Omer Yurtseven Also Skipping International Competition

Heart Omer Yurtseven has additionally chosen to work out with the Miami Warmth subsequent couple months as an alternative of taking part in for his nation’s nationwide staff. 

Yurtseven will stay in Miami, bypassing the chance to play for the Turkish nationwide staff subsequent month based on the web site Eurohoops.web. 

He joins rookie Nikola Jovic in declining invitations to characterize their nation. Jovic was alleged to play for the Serbian staff. Each will proceed to work on their video games with the Warmth teaching employees. 

Final 12 months Yurtseven averaged 5.3 factors and 5.2 rebounds as a rookie. 

“I wish to be right here [in Miami],” he mentioned at his exit interview in June after the Warmth have been eradicated by the Boston Celtics. “I received higher right here … I really feel like my staff and employees imagine in me and really feel I’ll get higher right here.”

Yurtseven had a consecutive streak of 4 video games with at the very least 16 rebounds, the longest since Corridor of Famer Shaquille O’Neal in 1992-93. The Warmth nonetheless assume he can attain one other stage of their developmental program. 

He’s massive and he’s fast on his ft, so he’s received some athleticism and instruments,” Warmth summer season league coach Malik Allen mentioned final month. “He can do this. He’s going to rebound the ball. He can do this. It’s only a matter of how can we make an impression earlier than the shot really goes up.”

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