Wikipedia - Türk Telekom B.K.
Türk Telekom Basketbol Kulübü (English: Turk Telekom Basketball Club) is a professional basketball team that is based in Ankara, Turkey. The team is currently playing in the Turkish Basketball Super League. It is a branch of the Türk Telekom GSK sports club. Their home arena is the Ankara Arena. The arena, which has a capacity of 10,400 seats, opened in April 2010.
History
The club was founded in 1954 and opened its basketball section as name of PTT in 1991. Thereafter, the team received name of Türk Telekom PTT in 1996. Recently, the team is continuing with the name of Türk Telekom.
Türk Telekom has won the Turkish Cup title after beating Oyak Renault in 2008. Also, the team won the Turkish President's Cup title after beating Fenerbahçe Ülker that year.
Türk Telekom also has a reserve team as name of Genç Telekom. They compete in the Turkish Basketball Second League.
In September 2011, first Turkish NBA All-Star player Mehmet Okur of the Utah Jazz announced he would play for Türk Telekom, due to the 2011 NBA lockout.
In 2016, Türk Telekom relegated from the BSL after finishing 15th in the regular season. In 2018, the team returned as it promoted from the Turkish First League. In its first season back, the club would also play in the EuroCup, as the club returns to Europe after 6 years.
Turk Telekom grundades 1954 och har vunnit åtta turkiska mästerskap, sex turkiska cupmästerskap och en presidentcup. Laget deltog också i EuroLeague under säsongen 2014-15.
Hemmaarenan för Turk Telekom är Ankara Arena, som har en kapacitet på 10 400 åskådare. Lagets huvudtränare är Ertuğrul Erdoğan.
Turk Telekoma nuvarande trupp består av en blandning av turkiska och utländska spelare, inklusive:
* Yiğitcan Saybir
* Barış Ermiş
* Can Korkmaz
* Jerel McNeal
* Aaron Harrison