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Frank Turner (basketball)

American basketball player (born 1988)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ208849 ↗
Source-derived summary

Frank Rahim Turner (born May 25, 1988) is an American professional basketball player who last played for MZT Skopje. Standing at 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m), Turner plays as point guard.

Turner graduated from Atlantic City High School in 2006.

Career

In December 2014, Turner signed with the Romanian team U-BT Cluj-Napoca.

On July 14, 2016, Turner signed with ADA Blois Basket of the French LNB Pro B.

On August 31, 2017, Turner signed with Crailsheim Merlins of the German second division ProA. Turner played two seasons with Crailsheim.

Editorial summary

“Frank Turner (basketball)” enters the record as american basketball player (born 1988). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Frank, Turner and basketball can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988, 2006, 2014, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1988-05-25. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Frank, Turner and basketball.
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Why this record matters

“Frank Turner (basketball)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Frank, Turner and basketball provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q208849. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1988, 2006, 2014 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Frank Turner (basketball)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.