Cleveland Cavaliers

NBA All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell received an excited welcome to the Cleveland Cavaliers on Sept. 3 as his trade from Utah became official while the Jazz thanked him for incredible performances.

Prominent Turkish basketball player Cedi Osman, who plays for Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA, has proposed marriage to his year-long girlfriend, Ebru Şahin, at Cappadocia, the ancient region in Central Anatolia, famous for its fairy chimneys.

"I said yes," wrote the actress on her social media account, uploading a photo of them backdropped by the hot air balloons rising in the air.

Basketball is an international sport that grows in popularity every year. The sport started in the United States from an invention by James Naismith in 1861, and a couple of decades later, the sport was accepted by few local schools and the project basketball took off since then.

Turkey has been focusing on a policy to produce many more star players in sports branches including football and basketball.

Turkish Youth and Sports Minister Mehmet Muharrem Kasapoğlu said late on May 39 that Turkey should profit its massive young population, which is 20 million, to bring in many successful athletes like NBA player Cedi Osman.

Turkey's state-run cultural agency Yunus Emre Institute announced on Jan. 29 that it has signed a deal with NBA team Cleveland Cavaliers to promote Turkish culture.

"We are truly honored to sign an agreement with Cleveland Cavaliers @cavs in terms of promoting Turkish culture," Halid Bulut, director of Yunus Emre's Washington D.C. office, said on Twitter.

NBA in a game on Jan. 29 between Cleveland Cavaliers and New Orleans Pelicans commemorated the victims of a recent deadly earthquake in Turkey.

Electronic billboards displayed: "Our Prayers are with you Elazığ and Malatya", referring to the eastern provinces of Turkey where a 6.8-magnitude quake claimed 41 lives and injured more than a thousand others.

As announced on the official website of the Basketball Federation of Serbia, Malone will join the professional staff of our national team immediately after the playoffs.
Malone has been the Denver coach since 2015 and it is assumed that his main role will be to maximize Nikola Jokic's potential in the Serbian national team.

LeBron James scored 23 of his 31 points in the second half as the Los Angeles Lakers broke open a close game to register a ninth straight NBA victory, 128-99 over the Cleveland Cavaliers.

With Lakers star Anthony Davis still sidelined by a sore backside from a fall, Dwight Howard added season highs of 21 points and 15 rebounds for the Western Conference leaders.

Kokoskov neither confirmed nor denied for B92 the rumors that he would succeed Aleksandar Djordjevic at the helm of "The Eagles".
"In a few days we will know more," Kokoskov told B92 when asked about taking over Serbian national team.

Former Cleveland Cavaliers coach David Blatt has left his post as coach of Greek club Olympiacos two months after announcing he had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

In a statement on the club website, Blatt says "after a long and respectful discussion between the owners and myself, our two parties have decided it's in the best interest of both sides to part ways."