After six years with the Cleveland Cavaliers and playing alongside Victor Wembanyama at the San Antonio Spurs last season, Cedi Osman has returned from the NBA to the Euroleague. Osman spoke with Eurohoops about the NBA, his career and a possible return overseas, the differences between the North American-based league and the main continental club competition in Europe, and more.
“I don’t think it’s over, you never know what happens,” about his NBA career.
“I am fully committed to Panathinaikos right now and I really want to win EuroLeague with this team,” continued the Turkish forward, “We have a great team, a very talented team that I believe can go for the back-to-back and I want to win all the cups that we can. I want to achieve everything here. So, that is why I am happy to be here and I am excited and hopefully it is going to be a great year for us.”
There are several players who moved from the NBA to the Euroleague this summer, and Cedi Osman shared that they can dominate in Europe coming from the most talented league in the world:
“It depends. I do not think it is that easy. Playing in the NBA and then coming back to play in Europe, first of all, it is a different type of basketball,” he said, “There is a part that for sure we are going to dominate, but we need some time. It is not going to happen like this. It is not going to be that quick. So, that is why we need some time. We need to play games. We need to understand. We need to remind ourselves how it was playing in Europe. How it was playing in the EuroLeague. So, that is why there are going to be times when we are going to be ourselves and everything, but for now, we need some time until we adjust again to EuroLeague basketball.”
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