CEDİ OSMAN
Basketball
Panathinaikos AKTOR
Date of Birth: April 8, 1995
Country: Türkiye
Sport: Basketball
Cedi Osman was born in 1995 in Ohrid, Macedonia. He began playing basketball in Macedonia and moved to Türkiye at the age of 13 after joining the Anadolu Efes youth academy, where he also became a Turkish citizen. After spending two seasons with Anadolu Efes’ feeder team, Pertevniyal, he was promoted to the Anadolu Efes senior team. Until 2017, he became one of the team’s key players and was selected to the Türkiye Basketball Super League All-Star three times during that period. With Anadolu Efes, he won one Turkish Cup and one Presidential Cup.
Representing the national team, he won the 2013 FIBA U18 European Championship and later captured the 2014 FIBA U20 European Championship title, where he was also named MVP. That same year, he was honored as the “Best Young Player” of the Turkish Basketball Super League. In 2015, GQ Türkiye named him “Athlete of the Year.”
In the 2015 NBA Draft, he was selected by the Minnesota Timberwolves as the first pick of the second round and was traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers on draft night. He signed with Cleveland in 2017 and played for six seasons, appearing in more than 350 games. In 2022, he became the ninth player in Cavaliers history to make over 500 three-pointers, ranking fifth all-time in franchise history for most three-point field goals made at the time. In 2023, he transferred to the San Antonio Spurs, where he surpassed 3,500 career points, becoming one of the most productive and longest-serving Turkish players in NBA history.
In 2024, Osman joined Panathinaikos in Greece, where he won the Greek Cup in his first season and competed in the EuroLeague Final Four during the 2024–2025 season. In 2025, he captained the Turkish Men’s National Basketball Team to a silver medal at the European Basketball Championship. He also led the tournament in three-pointers made, with 29 successful shots from beyond the arc.
Achievements
2025 European Basketball Championship | Silver Medal
2024–2025 Greek Cup | Champion
3× Türkiye Basketball Super League All-Star
2015–2016 Presidential Cup | Champion
2014–2015 Turkish Cup | Champion
2014 Turkish Basketball League | Best Young Player Award
2014 FIBA U20 European Championship | MVP
2014 FIBA U20 European Championship | Champion
Awards
2025 FIBA EuroBasket All-Tournament Second Team
2018 Boğaziçi University Sports Awards:Basketball Player of the Year
2018 Milliyet Sports Awards: Rising Star ofthe Year
2015 GQ Türkiye Men of the Years Awards:Basketball Player of the Year
2014 Turkish Basketball League: Best YoungPlayer Award