Deniz Kilicli speaks out about Enes Kanter

West Virginia's Deniz Kilicli is a Turkish native. Like Enes Kanter, he faced eligibility issues coming to the states to play college basketball. He was suspended for the first 20 games last season due to an NCAA rule that has since been eliminated.

Kilicli has been through the ringer with both the Turkish club teams and the NCAA. And he never thought Kanter was going to be cleared.

"I never thought he was going to play," Kilicli told ESPN's Andy Katz at the Puerto Rico Tip-Off Tournament yesterday. "I knew that club was going to do what it did. I knew that he wasn't going to play. I called it like a year ago."

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