It’s easy to love Furkan Korkmaz’s story. The Istanbul, Turkey, native was largely unknown to Sixers fans when the team drafted him 26th overall in 2016 when he was just 18 years old. Although there were glimpses of what he could be (the first being when he dropped 40 points in a Summer League game), virtually no one, including Korkmaz himself, thought he’d be back for another season, let alone become the Sixers official "bomber," leading the team in made three-pointers.
But even more than all of that, it’s been Korkmaz’s refreshing personality and hilarious sense of humor (sometimes coupled with his learning of slang in the English language — please see his "Make it rain" postgame interview) that has endeared him to Sixers fans.
And while we sit here amid a suspended NBA season, largely isolated, Korkmaz provided us with the entertainment we’ve very much been missing.
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We combed through old Instagram photos with Kork, AKA GOAT-maz (thank you, Ben Simmons), AKA Furky from Turkey wit da Jerky (thank you, Mike Scott).
From that one time he wore white pants and a tie dye jacket to his "definitely feeling himself" outfits, Korkmaz gave us all the laughs in an interview Tuesday, as you can see in the video above.
Plus, we got the skinny on his on-court shoe choices, dinners with Dario Saric and why he thinks Brett Brown would be as good as Matisse Thybulle on Tik Tok, and we are here for all of it!
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