Furkan walked into the arena for his first practice back. The squeak of sneakers on the hardwood sounded sharper here. There was no "waiting for his turn" behind an All-Star. Here, the ball would be in his hands. He felt the weight of the expectations, the eyes of a fan base that remembered him as a boy and now welcomed him back as a man.
But as the plane touched down in Turkey, the air smelled like home and high stakes. Furkan Korkmaz (Realistic)
During the first scrimmage, he caught the ball at the wing. In Philly, he might have swung it to the corner. Today, he put his shoulder down, drove past the defender, and finished with a finger roll that felt like exhaling after holding his breath for seven years. Furkan walked into the arena for his first practice back