Jazz trade C Mehmet Okur to Nets for 2nd-round pick
New York Knicks guard Chris Duhon dunked the ball on a backdoor play leaving Utah Jazz center Mehmet Okur off guard to react in the fourth quarter. (Nov. 9, 2008) Credit: J. Conrad Williams Jr.
The 6-foot-11 Okur is in his 10th year.
The Nets needed another big man after learning Brook Lopez was out until at least February from surgery to repair a stress fracture in his right foot.
Okur, a native of Turkey, played only 13 games last season because of injury, but said he was 100 percent entering training camp.
He has averaged 13.7 points and 7.1 rebounds in 617 career games with Detroit and Utah.
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