{"id":481346,"date":"2026-01-29T17:31:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T16:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=481346"},"modified":"2026-01-29T17:31:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T16:31:20","slug":"malachi-flynn-officially-gets-a-turkish-passport-now-eligible-for-the-national-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/malachi-flynn-officially-gets-a-turkish-passport-now-eligible-for-the-national-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Malachi Flynn officially gets a Turkish passport, now eligible for the national team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1255\" data-end=\"1602\">Turkey has officially naturalized <strong data-start=\"1289\" data-end=\"1306\">Malachi Flynn<\/strong>. The American guard (born in 1998) has obtained a <strong data-start=\"1357\" data-end=\"1377\">Turkish passport<\/strong>, making him eligible to play for the <strong data-start=\"1415\" data-end=\"1432\">national team<\/strong>. After several NBA seasons with the <strong data-start=\"1469\" data-end=\"1488\">Toronto Raptors<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1490\" data-end=\"1509\">New York Knicks<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1511\" data-end=\"1530\">Detroit Pistons<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1535\" data-end=\"1556\">Charlotte Hornets<\/strong>, Flynn moved to Europe in the summer of 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1604\" data-end=\"1912\">He has been a standout in Turkey with <strong data-start=\"1642\" data-end=\"1656\">Bahcesehir<\/strong>, averaging <strong data-start=\"1668\" data-end=\"1683\">16.8 points<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1685\" data-end=\"1700\">4.7 assists<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1705\" data-end=\"1721\">3.1 rebounds<\/strong>. Flynn has also made a major impact in the <strong data-start=\"1765\" data-end=\"1776\">EuroCup<\/strong>, posting <strong data-start=\"1786\" data-end=\"1810\">17.8 points per game<\/strong> along with <strong data-start=\"1822\" data-end=\"1837\">3.9 assists<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1842\" data-end=\"1858\">3.9 rebounds<\/strong>, emerging as one of the competition\u2019s key performers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1998-born American guard, currently starring for Bahcesehir, has been naturalized and can represent Turkey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":476852,"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":[],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-481346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/01\/3AG3029.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481346","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481346"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=481346"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=481346"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=481346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}