Hedo Turkoglu played in the NBA for 15 years, 8 of them with the
Orlando Magic, so it's fitting that when I opened a multi-sport repack box with "guaranteed hits", that would be the team I would pull a card of his with:
That's card #72 from
Panini's
2011-12 Past & Present set and
Gamers sub-set, featuring a two-colour swatch. I find it ironic that basketball jerseys are small and sleeveless while hockey jerseys are big enough to conceal equipment and keep warm, yet basketball jersey swatches sometimes take nearly the entire card and hockey jerseys are a square inch in size.
Turkoglu was born in Istanbul in 1979 and
retired from basketball in 2015, earning the NBA's Most Improved Player title in 2007-08 and helping the Magic reach the Finals in 2009 along the way.
He also played for the
Sacramento Kings,
San Antonio Spurs,
Toronto Raptors,
Phoenix Suns and
Los Angeles Clippers. Apparently,
his time in Toronto was pretty hectic. Heh.
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