The National Basketball Association is the world's premier basketball league and foreign players have increasingly been scouted to play in the for NBA teams. Turkish nationals have been a favorite and top amongst them is Utah Jazz center Mehmet Okur. Okur was also a 2007 NBA all-star team member. He also shows that immigrant work ethic - for two straight seasons he has played all 82 games, the only Jazz player to do so.
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August 21, 2007
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