Ä°brahim Kutluay

İbrahim Kutluay ( born January 7, 1974 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish former basketball player who played at a height of 1.98 m on the position of shooting guard.

İbrahim Kutluay began his career at Fenerbahce Istanbul where he stood until 1999 under contract. After a year at station Efes Pilsen Istanbul, he joined in the summer of 2000 for the first time abroad and signed a one-year contract with AEK Athens in Greece where he also managed to win his first title with the Greek Cup. In 2001 Kutluay to league rivals and Greek giants Panathinaikos Athens, where he should have the most successful period of his career. So Kutluay also won the ULEB Euro League 2002 next to the Double in 2003, where he was with 22 points scored in the final of the most successful basket contactors his team. After Kutluay returned for a season in Turkey, in 2004 he joined the NBA for the Seattle SuperSonics. Since Kutluay but hardly used in Seattle, he returned in early 2005, back to Panathinaikos, where he was able to win the Double once more. After a stint at Turkish first division team Fenerbahçe Ülker Kutluay signed on 31 December 2007 a ​​contract with Greek club PAOK Thessaloniki. From summer 2008 to summer 2009, he played the Turkish second ligist ITÜ Basketbol Takımı. Here he was an injury to a few uses after which he ended his active career as a player in the summer of 2009.

İbrahim Kutluay was an integral part and also captain of the Turkish national team and participated with this in several European and World Championships. Outstanding is the European Championship of 2001 was able to complete Kutluay in their own country as a silver medalist.

Ibrahim Kutluay belonged in early 2008 to a circle of 105 basketball players who were nominated by the Euro League Basketball and / or basketball interested, actively fifty major personalities of the sport of basketball in Europe in the period 1958 to 2008, determine and subsequently in May 2008 in Madrid (Spain ) honor can. All nominated players have played a particularly prominent role in the European Cup competitions of FIBA Europe and the Euro League basketball and belonged respectively to the most prominent ' stars' of their national league teams.

Achievements

  • Greek champion: 2003, 2005
  • Turkish champions: 2006
  • Greek Cup winner: 2001, 2003, 2005
  • Turkish Cup winner: 2004
  • ULEB Euro League: 2002
  • European runners-up: 2001

Awards

  • Participation in the Greek All Star Game: 2002
  • MVP of the Greek Cup Finals: 2001
  • MVP of the Greek All Star Game: 2002
  • Winner of the Three Point Shoot out of the Greek All Star Game: 2002
  • All-Star First Team at the European Championships 2001
  • All-Star Third Team at the European Championships 1997
  • Participation in the U-18 European Championship: 1991
  • Participation in the U -22 European Championship: 1996
  • Participation in European championships: 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2005
  • Participation in world championships: 2002, 2006
A.E.K. Athens F.C. Double (association football) Euroleague Basketball National Basketball Association Greek Basketball Cup Dominique Wilkins Antonis Fotsis Brent Petway Nikos Pappas Alphonso Ford Kostas Tsartsaris Ramel Curry
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