{"id":476822,"date":"2026-01-02T14:58:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T13:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=476822"},"modified":"2026-01-02T14:58:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T13:58:40","slug":"turkey-to-naturalize-malachi-flynn-to-bolster-national-team-backcourt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/turkey-to-naturalize-malachi-flynn-to-bolster-national-team-backcourt\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey to Naturalize Malachi Flynn to Bolster National Team Backcourt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"177\" data-end=\"471\">According to reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UMTAVC\/status\/2006813569397174553\"><strong data-start=\"199\" data-end=\"212\">Umit Avci<\/strong><\/a>, the <strong data-start=\"218\" data-end=\"251\">Turkish Basketball Federation<\/strong> has decided to naturalize point guard <strong data-start=\"290\" data-end=\"331\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Malachi Flynn<\/span><\/span><\/strong> in order to address the recurring injury issues of <strong data-start=\"383\" data-end=\"424\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Shane Larkin<\/span><\/span><\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"429\" data-end=\"470\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Scottie Wilbekin<\/span><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"473\" data-end=\"717\">A product of <strong data-start=\"486\" data-end=\"527\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">San Diego State University<\/span><\/span><\/strong>, Flynn is best known for his historic 50-point performance in an NBA game. This past summer, he chose to begin his European career by signing with <strong data-start=\"675\" data-end=\"716\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Bah\u00e7e\u015fehir Koleji<\/span><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"719\" data-end=\"1009\">Flynn is currently averaging <strong data-start=\"748\" data-end=\"792\">17.6 points, 5.1 assists, and 1.7 steals<\/strong> per game in the Turkish BSL, while posting <strong data-start=\"836\" data-end=\"880\">18.2 points, 4.2 assists, and 1.8 steals<\/strong> per contest in the EuroCup. He is shooting <strong data-start=\"924\" data-end=\"954\">37% from three-point range<\/strong> on nearly seven attempts per game across competitions.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1011\" data-end=\"1194\">The guard could be available for selection as early as the upcoming national team windows scheduled for <strong data-start=\"1115\" data-end=\"1137\">February and March<\/strong>, should the naturalization process be completed in time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to reporter Umit Avci, the Turkish Basketball Federation has decided to naturalize point guard Malachi Flynn in order to address the recurring injury issues of Shane Larkin and Scottie Wilbekin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":476801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[369,313],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-476822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-teams","category-turkey","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/01\/malachi-flynn-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476822"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=476822"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=476822"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=476822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}