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  "ar": "جوسوف نركيتش",
  "en": "Jusuf Nurkić",
  "ur": "جوسوف نرکچ"
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  "ar": "لاعب كرة سلة بوسني ⁦(وُلد سنة 1994)⁩، لاعب وسط يوتا جاز في NBA، اختير في درافت 2014 ولعب قبلها لدنفر وبورتلاند وفينيكس وشارلوت، وهو لاعب دولي مع منتخب البوسنة والهرسك.",
  "en": "Bosnian basketball player (born 1994), the Utah Jazz centre drafted 16th overall in 2014 after starting in Slovenia and Croatia; he previously played for Denver, Portland, Phoenix and Charlotte and represents Bosnia and Herzegovina.",
  "ur": "بوسنیائی باسکٹ بال کھلاڑی ⁦(پیدائش 1994)⁩؛ یوٹا جاز کے سینٹر، 2014 کے ڈرافٹ میں منتخب ہوئے؛ اس سے قبل ڈینور، پورٹ لینڈ، فینکس اور شارلٹ کے لیے کھیلے اور بوسنیا و ہرزیگووینا کی نمائندگی کرتے ہیں۔"
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   "note": "Born on 23 August 1994 in Bosnia and Herzegovina: the English, Turkish, Arabic and Bosnian articles and Wikidata agree on the day. The town is read two ways — the English article gives Živinice, while Wikidata's birthplace value is Tuzla, the nearby cantonal centre; both readings are preserved here. Neither town has a place entity, so no born_in edge is written. The Hijri year 1415 is a tabular conversion of the followed date, marked derived.",
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    "note": "Islam is attested as his own documented practice: the English biography calls him a practicing Muslim and records his public marking of Ramadan's start in April 2021; Sportskeeda's March 2024 report quotes his own words on fasting through NBA games with Phoenix — 'As far as the effect, I feel so much better' — and records his Ramadan charity in Bosnia; Wikidata's religion (P140) value is Islam, one structured family. No source read names a school of law or theology for him, so under the lane's discipline the settlement stays unknown, unflagged, with the documented practice stated here.",
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