BC's big investment just keeps looking worse as each day passes. After bowing out of practice on Tues or Wed, supposedly with a bad back, our beloved Turk heads out to the clubs Wed night and gets into a ridiculous situation with some young chick who was taking a pick of her friend with a cel phone.
They even recovered the photo from her sim card and its nothing. Who does this guy think he is? He is damn lucky she did not have a boyfriend or someone there who decided to start a fight with him. Imagine he breaks a jaw or a knuckle, or worse the other guy falls down and cracks his head open. What a moron.
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Hedo Turkoglu may be good at shooting baskets, but when it comes to the camera-toting public, he's got a thing or two to learn.
In an age when just about everyone is toting a camera-equipped cellphone, celebrities and sports stars – even ordinary people – are still working out the etiquette of what to do when they're captured in a bystander's random shot.
Turkoglu, signed by the Raptors to a five-year, $52 million (U.S.) contract last summer, figured he was being photographed when Jazmine Singh, out with some friends at Yorkville's Lobby nightclub early Thursday, decided to snap a shot of friend Meghan Kesivic sitting across the table.
That's when Turkoglu – or his security guard, depending on who's telling the tale – grabbed Singh's phone from her hand and "deleted" the photo.
Singh said she was stunned when at around 1 a.m. a "giant 7-foot man" reached over, grabbed the phone from her hand and did his erasing trick.
Later Thursday, Star photo maestros got their hands on the memory card in Singh's phone, did their magic, and now the photo's back.
Turns out it's a typical club shot, blurry and murky, showing part of Singh's friend, another friend's arm and, if you really, really knew who Turkoglu is, you just might recognize him as the partially obscured face in the background.
But apparently the chance of being recognized was enough to send Turkoglu into photo-destroying mode. That's when Singh and her friends asked Lobby's security for help that they were told the big guy was a basketball player with the Raptors and – in not so many words – that he could get away with it.
"He just ripped the phone out of my hand – I thought he was trying to steal it," said Singh, still incredulous a day later. "I had no idea who he was. I didn't care who he was. No one has the right to do that."
Turkoglu was on the defensive.
The Turkish import told the Star Thursday he was at the bar "trying to chill" with friends, when he saw a flash go off. He said that's when he asked a security guard to grab the phone and delete the pictures.
"I don't like people taking my picture, especially in the club, before asking. She did. I said, `Did you ask me?' She said no. I said, `I want you to delete it'," Turkoglu told the Star's Dave Feschuk following Thursday's practice at the Air Canada Centre.
"There was a guy with me, a security guy, he deleted it," said Turkoglu.
Singh says he never even tried to speak with her. The 24-year-old says she would have willingly deleted any photos he was mistakenly in, if Turkoglu had simply asked instead of "reaching out his long arm and simply grabbing the phone right out of my hands.
"I think he just saw a flash and freaked out," she said.
Kesivic, 23, said Turkoglu's story doesn't add up, since she's not a basketball fan and didn't even know who he was. "He could have knocked on my door and tried to sell me something, I would have had no idea who he was."
It was only when they went home, and searched online, that they confirmed it was Turkoglu.
Last summer the Raptors lured Turkoglu away from the Orlando Magic to Toronto. In July, his agent Lon Babby said the 30-year-old and his family were thrilled to move to a city with a strong Turkish community. Despite the initial excitement when he joined, he has struggled to perform on court.
Canadian privacy laws allow anyone to take photos of anyone in a public place, regardless of what they're doing, and publish them.
Taking photos in a private venue, such as a club, requires advance permission from those in charge, but it's not illegal to just go ahead and shoot.
But the case of private photos being deleted from a camera phone is vague; Toronto police say it is unlikely charges would be laid for such an incident, since no one was hurt and nothing tangible was stolen.
Singh and Kesivic say they don't plan to take any further action against Turkoglu, other than taking their experience with him public.
"It was very demeaning to us," said Kesivic, as she recalled how Turkoglu's friends laughed at them after he eventually returned the phone.
"I know how these things work: he is a regular, he comes in there and can drop so much more money than we can," she said. "They think they can do whatever, and get away with it."
Singh and Kesivic said Turkoglu was with three male friends; no women were at the table.
Management at Lobby said they had no comment on the incident, which Turkoglu says happened early Wednesday morning instead.
The episode comes at a time when professional athletes are dealing with the ups and downs of real-time stardom: Blogs like drunkathlete.com that post scandalous photos; fans crashing locker rooms to snatch pictures; and bitter ex-girlfriends willing to sell personal and often compromising photographs to the highest bidder.
The perils of the cellphone paparazzi have made many athletes overly cautious of even the most innocuous of photo requests.
But if the women were hoping for at least an apology, they may have to give up waiting. He likely won't be saying sorry any time soon.
"I don't hide this kind of stuff," Turkoglu said. "If somebody else (takes a picture without asking) I'm going to do the same thing again."
Could things get much worse for Turkey Glue at the moment?
Embarrassing himself off the court now as well as on it. Solid investment BC.
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Every now and then I cower and I need to find empowerment, empowerment is paramount to how I can begin to mount, a plan that I can implement, to make a dent on ignorance, instead of drunk belligerence and the dissidence of miscreants, especially in this instance with the never ending persistence to use the words in each sentence as if they were blunt instruments to beat a hole in the defence of this beauty and her innocence which serves to just build resistance in spite of all my good intents. The Beat That My Heart Skipped
well he had a superb game last night, our offense is diff than Orlando's our offense is oriented around our bigman, In Orlando Dwight was only real big man they had Shard, Hedu just took jump shots, the transition to our offense seems now Hedu has figured that he cant just float around the 3 pt line and get a clean look as often as he did in Orlando where the only interior player was Howard, the rest were just jump shooters, Nelson would penetrtatre other than him and at times Shard Hedu & the SG were just jump shooters.
I think he has finally realized that here he has to play more like a traditional SF, not just be asked to shoot 3's, he is getting the hang of reading the coverage and driving better.
Its just a matter of time when he is cash often penetrating and pulling up n taking the mid range shot.
He has improved in recognizing not to force shots.
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Hedo finally gets aggressive - in a club
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