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Alperen Sengun was true to his word and presented Ercan Osmani with his gift
By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
After the 2025 EuroBasket semifinal win of Turkey over Greece, Alperen Sengun revealed that he had promised his teammate Ercan Osmani a rolex watch if he held Giannis Antetokounmpo below 20 points.
Almost a week afterward, Sengun delivered his promise. The Houston Rockets star posted a photo of him giving the rolex to Osmani on his Instagram with the caption, “Promises kept.”
Antetokounmpo scored a personal EuroBasket low 12 points (6-13 shots) in the 94 – 68 loss to Turkey in the semifinal. He was averaging 29.8 points in the tournament until that game.
Osmani dropped a career-high 28 points and was the focal player of Turkey’s defense against Giannis while constant double-teaming and triple-teaming disrupted the action of the “Greek Freak” as the “12 Giant Men” advanced to the Final for the first time in 25 years, following the 2001 EuroBasket
They lost to Dennis Schroder’s Germany but that silver medal was quite the success and a big step forward for Turkish basketball.
Greece went on to beat a Finland in the third-place game to claim a medal after the bronze in the 2009 EuroBasket.