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Anyone creeped out by the music ...

The man just wanted to play basketball, he justed wanted to live in a safe country. I dont blame him

I'm türkish and i heard such similar stories from basketball coaches here, and he doesn't speak türkish fluently and his face seems like he is from near uzbekistan or those countries so i believe it's true

He faked his identity and went as James Franco

Ilyasov Arsen is from Bukhara, Uzbekistan and he was my classmate and my neighbor, we studied in secondary school #8 of Bukhara and trained basketball at the same school and even participated in 2001 in basketball competition for "Olimpiada Umidlari" (from Uzbek language "Olympic hopes") which was held in Tashkent and we represented our Bukhara school in this competitions and took only 4th place. His real birthday is September 21, 1984.

I am from Turkey and I think the story is like this, he is from Uzbekistan he is a talented basketball player but the sports infrastructure is not good in Uzbekistan so he comes to Turkey, becomes Turkish to play on Turkish national team which is definetely better than Uzbekistan national team. Only thing suspicious is his age cause I thought he was older as well. Becoming Turkish to play on a national sports team occurs rather often in Turkey, especially from neighbour countries or even US. A player previously named Bobby Dixon is the star of the Turkish national basketball team.

I mean at least be more creative with the name lol

Nigga ur scaring me

The story is so light but the music makes me scared as shit

Dude barely changed his name how'd he get away with this for so long lmao

I am from Turkey and played basketball in youth teams. This story is 100 percent correct and was known among players. In fact, there are lots of stories like Ersan. Enes Kanter is also listed 2 years younger and thats a known fact. He was actually born in 1990.

Love ya content keep grinding bro

Don't disrespect Down To Buck like that

Technically he's still the same person..

This is dope dude! Great work!

watching this alone in my room 2am with that scary background music good night guys!

I heard that he is crimean tatar. In Uzbekistan lived many tatars in 80-s and almost all of them lives in Crimen now, and his parents too - but in this case i think it is lie

Grew up in Wisconsin loved ersan on the bucks for years. Crazy to hear this for the first time

the nations of Uzbekistan and Turkey do not border in any way, shape, or form, get your geography straight first

I LOVE THIS GUY MEN I LOVE HIS PLAYING STYLE

Thank You for doing this I wanted to see a video on this guy

Is it just me or was the first round of the playoffs more intense and competitive than the actual finals?

As someone who is actually interested in Turkish basketball I know that his parents are from Uzbekistan, there is no denying this. His Turkish is not very fluent, for me to hear him speak Turkish is probably the same as for an American to hear him speak English. Ersan is a typical male first name in Turkey, Ilyas (Elias in English) is also a typical Turkish name. Ova means plain or lowland in Turkish. So both names are Turkish.

I’m Turkish, and I remember hearing this guys name when my husband was watching a basketball game, and he told me that Ersan is Turkish, and I remember giving my husband a weird look because I’m very familiar with last names and I knew that the name ilyasova is Uzbek, also he looks Uzbek too, so I just brushed it off thinking that maybe his mother is Turkish and his father is Uzbek, but he is definitely not a hundred percent Turkish, not with that last name.

problem is that it's not a secret he's originally from uzbekistan. everyone in turkey knows this simply because his surname is not turkey turkish. also any player in any sports can play for any national team regardless of his/her nationality as long as the person did not play for a different national team before. as far as the name change goes that's what people do when they become turkish citizens. off the top of my head brazilian football player marco aurelio became a turkish citizen, changed his name to mehmet aurelio and played for the turkish national football team. there are hundreds of examples for this in every sport. so this is all normal. the only thing i'm unsure of is his age but i'm pretty sure nba teams would do medical tests in order to determine player's ages especially if there's some suspicion involved.

Lesser known brothers

"Uzbekish"😂😂😂

You the best Andy hoops

I like hearing these unusual random storirs. u should do one of Zach Randolph.

This video was good, very interesting 10/10

How have you gotten so many subs so quick congratulations

U r right. I’m from Uzbekistan, and my coach used to play with Arsen Ilyasov in Bukhara.

Andy Hoops ur the GoAT

I'd like to drink a beer with Ersan. Mainly so that I can get him drunk and hope he spills some secrets. 😉

@Andy Hoops this kinda reminds of Jake Tsakalidis, a greek/georgian NBA player, who later admitted that he faked the name and nationality. Basically he admitted that his real name is Alex Lentkov who is actually born in Novosibirsk, Russia, not Rustavi, Georgia and had no greek ancestry. Maybe you might make a video on him.

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Damn I remember just a couple of weeks ago you were at 2k now you're at 22k. Funny how quickly people can grow

I saw I video and got confused then watched this longer video and understand good job

this like a horror movie about Ersan Ilyasova because of the music hahaha lol

That is actually true. Ive played basketball against him at younger age groups in the past. He was playing for ulker at that time. He had a huge height and age advantage over his opponents, he was one of the few if not the only player who could dunk at that age. They even had a specialized aleyoop gameplay for him.

Give props to the man, he went through hell and back to get to where he is today.

ever since he came in the league he been splashing 3s like crazy, I'm like it looked like he played for 5 years

Wow, Detective Nick, you really cracked the case of the century with some amazing journalism by referring to a lame article that definitely provided evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.

can u find this andy hoops plz

"Ova" means plain in Turkish. There are lots of places in Turkey ending with "-ova" (Çukurova, Yüksekova, Korukova, Çayırova, Artova). plus place names usually used as surnames in Turkey (u can easily check this fact with a quick facebook search). Maybe İlyasova has Uzbek origin but his name can not be an evidence of true identiy of him.

i knew all of the story before but still i freaked out just because that creepy music.

That's crazy! Great on MyTeam tho!

U learn something new everyday

the music sent me chills

why does it matter? if you where in the same situation what would you do?

good shit!

damn your growing fast

This is far more common than any of us realize I'm guessing. Especially young people from war torn areas of the world.

So he just swapped letters around and left it at that

very nice naration :)

Video idea = The story of Stephon Marbury, from nba bad boy to chinese nba star

Why you gotta put creepy music in the background.

What's with the music

Ive been here since 200 subs and this comment will prove ive been here when andy hits 100k

in turkey they do this a lot, making guys like ersan changing their id to make them play for younger teams. and they do the name changing trick when they want to sign a player for national team and they aren't turkish. arsen and ersan are pretty close names as they prefer to choose similar names. yeah this thing is pretty common in turkey.

Ersan is underrated.

just watched a scary video then went to this video and the music kept that scary vibe

90th like! I got creeped out by the background leage

if u ever go to a game and arsen is playing Ima call him that

the real story is he is crimean tatar origin. his family are crimean tatar turks. during stalin era of soviet union they forcefully deployed to uzbekistan. scout from ulkerspor reach the guy and organize a turkish passport for him. in turkish passport he is from eskisehir city in turkey. this city mostly inhabited by crimean tatar origin people. so this is that simple. not an illuminati shit:)

andy can you make a video on Jordan Lowery that many videos say is Allen Iverson's son, doesn't even look like him

I played professional basketball in ages of 7 to 16 in Turkey. It is pretty common for big clubs at the time like Ülker or Efes Pilsen to recruit young guys from the Balkans and the Caucasus. We had to play against these giant non Turkish guys who were at least 2-3 years older than us and it was very obvious. So this lowering age thing in youth clubs is more than common in Turkey.

In Turkey, natural terms such as plate,delta,river,etc.. are very popular in surnames.The thing is " Ova " means "plate" in Turkish and there are tons of people that have this word in their surnames.(Such as Akova,Yeşilova,Dereova,) It doesnt have anything to do with being used for boys or girls.

Crazy. one of the better creepyPastas i heard in a long time

This could be true, in baseball there are some players that have done the same thing on the countries that doesn't need to participate in the draft.

King MiloMoneyzz I clicked it a few times before I realized what the test is!

At the end of your video you should plug a message about some of your other interesting content. Say the title and a short 15 sec clip of another good video you have for us to check out

There better be a documenational movie oncce he retires, if this is true

The left picture on the thumbnail look like Dally from The Outsiders... lmao

dem cheek bones

2:47 how come every time this plays it sets off my siri?!?!?!?

Atleast the guy saw talent and potential in him and found a way to get him an opportunity to make money n support the family.

What does he say when people ask?

Lol he looks like the guy who was in Pineapple Express and Spiderman as Peter's bestfriend lowkey ... forgot his name .

Its a tough world out there, I don't blame him. He did what he had to do for a better life, and look at him now.

We were in the same class in 2000.

The music and the thumbnail are very creepy. The title in the thumbnail also makes it seem like “he’s” not human lol

Interesting video indeed

The moment you realize you click a conspiracy theory video... no,no,nooooo...

You should make a video of the worst NBA teams ever .

What's the name of the creepy soundtrack?

Didn't know this was a thing

Am I the only one who thinks he looks like Anthony from Smosh?

As a 1983 born Turkish, I remember his first years in Turkish club Ulkerspor (Today's Fenerbahce) as the Uzbek wonderkid. Everybody knows Turkish basketball clubs have good scouts in the Balkans and Central Asia as Cedi Osman is one of the best picks from FYROM. It is also known that in all sports a player can only be accepted to the Turkish National team if he/she never played for 1st National Team of another country. According to these, the probability of the Uzbek authorities having chosen him to their national team before he came to Turkey is very likely. And Turkish authorities use this kind of games very often. I also know that Turkey tried to add Zaza Pachulia to national squad back his days in Ulkerspor also.

AndyHoopes, you are right about the last name ending: ova, eva - is for female and this is actually coming from the former Soviet Union times. But what is also interesting is that in Soviet Union, coaches together with management team did falsify the ages of the young sportsmen. It’s really sad, but it’s true. I know a lot of people who’s ages are decreased in their documents only for these purposes.

what the hell is that music man he is not a secret assasin or something ..

Whoever's in ATL, Yell Arsen Ilyasov just to see his reaction 😂 but this is wild been a NBA fan since a youngin, & this is the 1st time hearing bout this

It's deeper than basketball

I actually respect what he did he did it for his family too get out of there situation

Being 33 or 30 doesnt matter,hes still playing at a high level, most American player quit playing at 28 after getting paid.

I used to play 2k11 and I always thought that Ilyasova was James Franco

olayin turkcesini biri ozet gecebilirmi

I am from turkey Ersan napmış be(wow what did he do?)

Why don't you check Turkoglu and Asik also?