Barış Ermiş

Barış Ermiş — Biography

Barış Ermiş is a point guard who was in the Turkish national squad that won silver at the 2010 FIBA World Championship; he spent his career at the big clubs of Turkish basketball and retired from professional basketball on August 27, 2021. Standing 1.93 m tall, he wore number 6.

He started playing basketball in 1991 at Yeşilyurt, spent five years in the Efes Pilsen academy, then two years at Pertevniyal and one at Beşiktaş. He won the Turkish Basketball League title in 2005, and also played for the Efes Pilsen senior team and Pınar Karşıyaka. On August 13, 2008, he signed with Türk Telekom, played three seasons at Banvit between 2009 and 2012, and moved to Fenerbahçe Ülker in 2012. He signed for Tofaş on July 2, 2015, stayed five seasons, and the two parted in May 2020. In July 2020 he joined Galatasaray and ended his career a season later.

At youth level he played at the European Championships with the under-16 team in 2001, the under-18 team in 2002 and the under-20 team in 2005. With the senior national team he was in the squad that finished second at the 2010 World Championship and the one that won the 2013 Mediterranean Games, and he was in the squad for the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup. In international competition he won one gold and one silver medal in total.