Nusret Yıldırım

Nusret Yıldırım — Biography

Nusret Yıldırım is a professional basketball player who plays power forward and has spent his career with many clubs across Turkey. He last played for Trabzonspor and has also captained Aliağa Petkimspor. Born in Bakırköy, he competed in several Turkish basketball leagues over roughly seventeen years.

He began his professional career in 2007-08 in Galatasaray's youth system. After two seasons with TTNET Beykozspor, where he averaged 5.3 points and 4.4 rebounds over 24 games in the second, he spent 2010-11 at the second-division club İstanbulspor, playing 25 games at 13 points and 7.8 rebounds, the highest scoring average among his documented seasons. He then spent two seasons at Erdemirspor. In 2013-14 he averaged 4.5 points and 4.6 rebounds in 29 games for Mersin BB, and in 2014-15 4.1 points and 2.6 rebounds in 31 league games for Trabzonspor Medical Park, who also played him in 14 Eurochallenge games. On July 20, 2015, he agreed terms with Banvit.

In later years he wore the shirts of Pınar Karşıyaka (2019) and Aliağa Petkimspor (2021), renewing with Petkimspor in 2022. He joined Bursaspor in September 2024 and went back to Trabzonspor later that year.