{"id":14444,"date":"2011-10-17T16:03:22","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T13:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=14444"},"modified":"2024-02-17T01:23:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T22:23:45","slug":"besiktas-deron-williams-thrash-opponent-in-turkish-league-debut-14444","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/besiktas-deron-williams-thrash-opponent-in-turkish-league-debut-14444\/","title":{"rendered":"Besiktas &#038; Deron Williams thrash opponent in Turkish League Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14445\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14445\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14445\" title=\"besiktas-deron-williams-turkish-basketball-nationalturk-0925\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/besiktas-deron-williams-turkish-basketball-nationalturk-0925.jpg\" alt=\"Besiktas star signing Deron Williams debutes in the Turkish League...DAILY NEWS photo, Emrah G\u00dcREL\" width=\"610\" height=\"340\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Besiktas star signing Deron Williams debutes in the Turkish League...DAILY NEWS photo, Emrah G\u00dcREL<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>All-Star point guard Deron Williams of Besiktas Istanbul Basketball Team saw a victory in his debut game in Turkish Basketball League.<\/h1>\n<p>Istanbul \/ NationalTurk &#8211; \u00a0Be\u015fikta\u015f Milangaz beat Band\u0131rma K\u0131rm\u0131z\u0131 at home by 38 points, 107-69, made a great start to the Beko Turkish Basketball League on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The first victory came mainly due to the performances of Besiktas players from overseas. Marcelus Kemp from Neveda led the Istanbul club with 27 points and ex Temple guard\/forward David Hawkins chipped in 22 points, four rebounds and four assists in his first league game with Besiktas jersey.<\/p>\n<p>The Istanbul club\u2019s star signing, the highest paid NBA player in Europe, All-Star guard Deron Williams, put on a mediocre performance with 11 points, 5 assists and 5 rebounds. Semih Erden, who also joined Be\u015fikta\u015f from Cleveland Cavaliers due to the ongoing players boycott, scored 13 points and grabbed 8 rebounds.<\/p>\n<h2>D-Will&#8217;s awkward league debut for Besiktas is still promising for fans<\/h2>\n<p>Deron Williams also saw his first technical from Turkish officials after arguing over a faul he commited and was benched for the most part of the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Games on Oct. 15 showed favorite sides did not have many problems against the minnows. Anadolu Efes won 89-53 at Erdemir away and Galatasaray Medikal Park hoisted a 27-point victory against Olin Edirne 71-98 with its new singnings. Defending champs Fenerbah\u00e7e \u00dclker beat a woeful Trabzonspor 88-63 at home and Mersin BB lost 61-72 at home to Tofa\u015f.<\/p>\n<p>New signing Sasha Vujacic led Anadolu Efes in scoring with 18 points with a perfect 100 percent shooting from behind the 3-point line. Esteban Hernandez from Uruguay chipped in 17 points and five rebounds while another new signing from NBA, Ersan \u0130lyasova, scored 10 points.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All-Star point guard Deron Williams of Besiktas Istanbul Basketball Team saw a victory in his debut game in Turkish Basketball League<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,25,1230,63,17,118,1633],"tags":[1700,17967,15148,15313,17966,18303,16342,16344,18302,16522,77177,18304],"class_list":["post-14444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-america","category-basketball","category-daily","category-europe","category-hot","category-turkey-sport","tag-besiktas","tag-besiktas-deron-williams","tag-besiktas-istanbul","tag-besiktas-jk","tag-d-will","tag-d-will-besiktas","tag-deron-williams","tag-deron-williams-besiktas","tag-deron-williams-besiktas-basketball","tag-deron-williams-turkey","tag-nba","tag-turkish-basketball-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78346,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14444\/revisions\/78346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}