The media day was held for the A National Basketball Team, which will face Italy and Iceland in Eurobasket 2025 Qualification. TBF President Hidayet Türkoğlu made statements on the media day held at the Basketball Development Center. The prominent of Türkoğlu’s statements is as follows:
“Alperen Şengün made our country proud”
“I would like to congratulate Alperen Şengün, a basketball player who represents our country in the best way in America, for making our country proud for his performance in NBA All-Star. He invites him to represent well. “
“We became a thinking of the athlete”
“While making decisions in the administrative sense, we became a management that thinks of the athlete. While making some decisions, we took our athlete friend thinking. We believe that it is not right to stay in dilemma. We would like to send it to our athletes. We don’t hesitate, we always believed that some things would be true over time. “
About Fenerbahçe does not send players to the national team
“I think it is not right to enter some processes here, but the process of the process has surprised us. We will follow until the summer, if this attitude continues on the way to the European Championship, we will impose sanctions without hesitation.”