OKC Thunder tabs rookie Omer Yurtseven to Exhibit 10 deal

Oklahoma City Thunder (NBA) inked 22-year old Turk-Uzbekistani center Omer Yurtseven (213-120kg-98). Yurtseven just graduated from Georgetown (NCAA). In 25 games he averaged impressive 15.3ppg, 10.0rpg, 1.2apg and 1.4bpg last season. A very good year in his career as he was selected to All-Big East Honorable Mention.
He has never been drafted by the NBA.
Yurtseven started his college career at North Carolina State University (NCAA).
As mentioned above Yurtseven is just out of the college and it will be his first season in pro basketball.
Yurtseven represented Turkey at the European Championships U20 in Crete (Greece) three years ago. His stats at that event were 7 games: Score-4 (17.0ppg), Reb-4 (11.4rpg), Blocks-2 (2.1bpg), FGP: 62.0%, FT: 61.8%.

By Eurobasket NEWS2 of Eurobasket.com



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