Is Korkmaz Still A Year Away?

Like many of you, I have the Furkan Fever, but I didn’t contract it while watching Korkmaz drop 40 points during Summer League, which was a very cool thing that happened and definitely elicited an “oh, wow!” from me. No, I jumped on the Furkan Korkmaz train while playing a generic basketball GM app. I took over “Philadelphia” and its roster of players that included “Jimm Embiid,” “Billy Simmons,” and in all his unlicensed glory, “Furilo Kormaz.”

This version of Kormaz begins as Philadelphia’s worst player, the only one with a rating under 70, but spend enough time playing the game and he becomes a pretty good player for you after a year or two, thanks to his high offensive ratings. (You can…