[media id=328 width=610 height=340]<\/strong><\/p>\n The towering 24-year-old is in the Turkish All Stars which will play in the World Basketball Championship hosted in Turkey during August 28 and September 12.<\/p>\n Asik who was born in Bursa, North Western Turkey, started his carrier at Fenerbah\u00e7e ib the 2005-06 season when he was just 19-years-old.<\/p>\n In the 2007-06 season the centre was transferred to Alpella where he had a very successful season before transferring back to Fenerbah\u00e7e \u00dclker (the change of name comes due to sponsorship deals) in the 2007-08 season.<\/p>\n The injury prone player then appeared for Fenerbah\u00e7e \u00dclker for three season until 2010 where he has now transferred to Chicago Bulls of the NBA.<\/p>\n The young centre who\u2019s birthday was just days ago has suffered knee ligament injuries and a broken collar bone causing great effect on the giant mans performance.<\/p>\n The Bulls have been looking for a cheap but efficient player at the centre which can be a reserve behind Joakim Noah and believe A\u015f\u0131k is the write man for the job.<\/p>\n Write your comments and thoughts below.<\/strong><\/p>\n Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span> Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 19)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chicago Bulls transfer Asik : The Chicago Bulls have landed an agreement with Turkish International and Fenerbah\u00e7e \u00dclker centre \u00d6mer A\u015f\u0131k to bring the 6 foot, 9 inch player to the NBA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,80,127,1633],"tags":[11088,11086,2475,11090,483,11093,11096,77177,11094,11092,11087,11089,10846,11085,1068,11095],"class_list":["post-7674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","category-breaking-news","category-sport","category-turkey-sport","tag-asik-to-nba","tag-centre","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-chicago-bulls-omer-asik","tag-fenerbahce","tag-fenerbahce-ulker-centre","tag-joakim-noah","tag-nba","tag-official-website","tag-omer-asik-transfer","tag-omer-asik","tag-omer-asik-to-nba","tag-transfer","tag-ulker","tag-video","tag-video-of-omer-asik"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}According to the Chicago Bulls official website the giant centre player who has been known for his blocks and rebounds at Fenerbah\u00e7e \u00dclker has struck a $1 million a year contract.<\/h2>\n
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