Mahmutoğlu with Fenerbahçe
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No. 10 – Fenerbahçe Istanbul | |||||||||||||
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Position | Shooting guard | ||||||||||||
League |
Turkish Super League EuroLeague |
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Personal information | |||||||||||||
Born |
Istanbul, Turkey |
May 12, 1990 ||||||||||||
Nationality | Turkish | ||||||||||||
Listed height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||
Listed weight | 85 kg (187 lb) | ||||||||||||
Career information | |||||||||||||
NBA draft | 2012 / Undrafted | ||||||||||||
Playing career | 2007–present | ||||||||||||
Career history | |||||||||||||
2007–2008 | Pertevniyal S.K. | ||||||||||||
2008–2010 | Darüşşafaka Cooper Tires | ||||||||||||
2010–2011 | Galatasaray Medical Park | ||||||||||||
2011–2012 | → Antalya BB | ||||||||||||
2012–2013 | Erdemirspor | ||||||||||||
2013–present | Fenerbahçe | ||||||||||||
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Melih Mahmutoğlu (born May 12, 1990) is a Turkish professional basketball player who plays for and captainsFenerbahçe of the Turkish Basketball Super League.
Mahmutoğlu started to play youth basketball with Genç Boğaziçispor. He transferred to the youth clubs of Efes Pilsen in 1999, and he was developed in the Efes Pilsen junior clubs. He made his professional debut in the Turkish Second Division with Pertevniyal, Efes Pilsen's feeder club, during the 2007–08 season.
He signed a contract with Darüşşafaka Cooper Tires in 2008. He averaged 7.3 points and 1.4 rebounds with them in the Turkish First Division, in the 2008–09 season.
He signed a contract with Galatasaray Medical Park in 2010. He was loaned to Antalya BB for the 2011–12 season, where he averaged 11.8 points, 1.9 rebounds, and 1.0 assists per game in the top-tier level Turkish League.
In the summer of 2012, he moved to Erdemirspor. Mahmutoğlu's scoring average with Erdemirspor, of 12.2 points per game, over 30 games played in the Turkish League's 2012–13 season, drew the attention of some bigger European clubs towards him.
In August 2013, Mahmutoğlu signed a two-year contract with an option to extend it for one more season, with Fenerbahçe. In his first EuroLeague season, he averaged 5.5 points and 1.2 rebounds per game, over 22 games, while shooting 44.8% from the field.