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Born | Tuzla, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia | 1 April 1976|||||||||||
Died | 23 September 2024 Tojšići, Bosnia and Herzegovina | (aged 48)|||||||||||
Nationality | Bosnian, Turkish | |||||||||||
Listed height | 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m) | |||||||||||
Listed weight | 231 lb (105 kg) | |||||||||||
Career information | ||||||||||||
NBA draft | 1998: undrafted | |||||||||||
Playing career | 1992–2013 | |||||||||||
Position | Center | |||||||||||
Number | 5, 8, 11, 14 | |||||||||||
Career history | ||||||||||||
1992–1993 | Sloboda Dita | |||||||||||
1993–1994 | Galatasaray | |||||||||||
1994–1996 | KK Zagreb | |||||||||||
1996 | Tuborg | |||||||||||
1996–1998 | Ülkerspor | |||||||||||
1998–2000 | Tofaş | |||||||||||
2000–2001 | Fenerbahçe | |||||||||||
2001–2002 | Ülkerspor | |||||||||||
2002–2003 | Efes Pilsen | |||||||||||
2003 | Dynamo Moscow | |||||||||||
2003–2006 | Tuborg | |||||||||||
2006–2007 | Lokomotiv Rostov | |||||||||||
2007–2008 | Pınar Karşıyaka | |||||||||||
2008–2009 | Türk Telekom | |||||||||||
2009–2012 | Mersin BB | |||||||||||
2012–2013 | Erdemirspor | |||||||||||
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Asım Pars (born Asim Paščanović;[1] 1 April 1976 – 23 September 2024) was a Turkish professional basketball player. He stood 2.13 m tall and played as a center. He had a dual citizenship, Turkish and Bosnian.
During the early 2000s, Pars married his girlfriend Amra Mehinović.[2] The couple's first child, son Emre, was born in 2003.[2] Their second child, daughter Saira, was born in 2010 in Adana while Mersin player Pars was in town for a game versus Adana Demirspor and his pregnant wife, who had accompanied him for the trip, unexpectedly went into labour.[2]
On 23 September 2024, Pars' body was found at his family home in Tojšići, near Kalesija. He was 48.[3][4][5] According to media reports, Tuzla Canton Interior Ministry and Kalesija Medical Center determined his death to have come about via suicide by hanging.[5][6][7]