Love to Turkey or Thanksgiving w/ Love?
by YoLeo on Nov 18, 2011 2:11 PM CST
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Wolves @kevinlove tells @YahooSports he will be making a decision over "the next couple of days" on whether to sign with Turkey Besiktas.
Then more from Woj:
As time and hope for salvaging an NBA season continue to dissipate, Turkey’s top team is engaged in serious talks with Kevin Love and Luol Deng about joining point guard Deron Williams in the Turkish Basketball League.
"I’ve been going back and forth with Deron on it," Love told Yahoo! Sports’ Marc Spears on Friday. "I’ll be making my decision in the next couple of days."
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-wojnarowski_nba_lockout_kevin_love_turkey_111811
Good for our golden boy? Bad? Your thoughts~
UPDATE:
Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Love informed Besiktas of Turkey on Sunday that he's turning down its offer to sign with the Istanbul-based club and team up with New Jersey Nets guard Deron Williams."I didn't feel it was the right decision for me at this time," Love told ESPN.com.
Love, though, said playing abroad if the lockout drags on "is still very much an option" he's considering.
NTV Spor of Turkey reported Friday that Love and Chicago Bulls forward Luol Deng were Besiktas' top two targets in its search for an elite forward to play alongside Williams.
According to NTV Spor, Besiktas has also courted Deng's Chicago teammate Carlos Boozer, who is reportedly ready to make the jump to reunite in Istanbul with Williams, his former Utah Jazz co-star.
But insurance payments to cover either Deng or Boozer are a big financial obstacle for Besiktas, which made well-publicized runs during the summer at Kobe Bryant and Kevin Durant and also briefly employed Allen Iverson last season.
The most likely Besiktas signing, according to NTV Spor, is Phoenix Suns center Marcin Gortat, for whom insurance would cost roughly half as much as Deng's and a third as much as Boozer's.
Yet it remains to be seen if Besiktas can indeed fund the signing of another NBA player in the wake of budget issues that have plagued the club in recent years. Two WNBA stars (Amber Harris and Jantel Lavender) recently left Besiktas' women's team in a dispute over late payments.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-wojnarowski_nba_lockout_kevin_love_turkey_111811
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Basket ball wise it can't hurt, unless he gets injured
Aside from the earthquakes, though-
Haven’t I heard about some recent religious/ethnic violence picking up there?
I suppose I could have looked it up before posting
Besitkas are based in istanbul, right on the Bosphorous
I’ve recently read books by Orhan Pamuk, an author who has lived in the same Istanbul house his whole life.. He paints fairly vivid, interesting, and only partially sentimental images of the place. Worth checking out..
Re: violence; there seems to be worries of a renewed civil war, headed by the PKK (some sort of Kurdish workers political union) and the Turkish army (more Persian, perhaps?)
I don’t see any major violence recently in istanbul, though in 06/08 there seems to have been some major stuff. The PKK sound as though they operate mostly out of NW Iraq, which is to the southeast of Turkey, while Istanbul is at the opposite end, in the NW of Turkey. I believe the worst of the quakes was in eastern Turkey, also.
Nonetheless- I don’t know that I would have the balls to travel that country as a noticeably rich American, the beauty of the country and general culture aside!
I voted yes, but there are at least 3 asterisks in that yes..
also, countries that border Turkey:
Syria, Iraq, Iran
No going for hikes in the borderlands after games out east, Kevvers!
Hot damn I bet istanbul is beautiful though.. The density of history in that place is mind boggling
And finally, from
http://www.smartraveller.gov.au/zw-cgi/view/Advice/Turkey
(Maybe istanbul isn’t so insulated from violence)
In May 2011, a bomb mounted on a bicycle exploded near a bus stop in Etiler, a residential and shopping district in Istanbul. Eight people, including a police officer, were wounded. In October 2010, thirty-two people, including a number of civilians, were injured when a suicide bomber attacked a police post in Taksim Square in Istanbul. The attack took place near a number of locations popular with foreign tourists. In June 2010, three people were killed by an attack on a military bus in Istanbul. Also that month an attack on a police bus in Istanbul injured 15 people.
from online basketball friends
Besiktas is a shit team they don’t pay their talent well or at all yeah they pay Williams but I think he will be fine in Turkey he played well there before for the US team
Me again
I meant to note this earlier, but already felt ridiculous with four posts under my belt
Apparently I do not care now,
An awesome tour of the mediterranean (latin: middle earth) by the best travel writer I know (Paul Theroux) is called ’ the pillars of hercules’. He starts at Gibraltar, and goes clockwise around the Med, by boat, bus, and train.. The start is meh, but after france it gets very cool..
The section on turkey is very good especially
..does no one on this have interest in actually talking about other places/cultures? I am shocked to say the least
I hate Othercountrystan!
As soon as we’re not talking about Amurrka!™ I lose interest. (Actually, I just don’t have anything to contribute in a discussion about Turkey. No knowledge, no opinions, no jokes. I got nothing.)
"Of what use is a philosopher who does not hurt anybody's feelings?" -Diogenes of Sinope
by Cynical Jason on Nov 19, 2011 8:49 AM CST up reply actions
Even if the season was salvaged
and Love was locked into a contract he couldn’t break, I think this would be good for the Wolves. It would give the rest of our forwards more court time, and it would force the rest of the team to learn how to rebound.
Then Love comes back for the 12-13 season and the Wolves kick ass.
Yes, it would hurt us this year (assuming there is a this year), but we weren’t going anywhere this year anyway, so why not?
They call me TMiss, but TCrank would be closer to the mark.
I think it would force leaning how to rebound
In the way, they were forced to learn to defend the perimeter last season.
I like it because he has really slimmed down lately
I want to make sure he can still gobble up rebounds with less weight on his frame.
I'm Trill, I'm running w/ the WOLVES
by running with Twolves (and scissors) on Nov 20, 2011 2:00 PM CST reply actions
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