The 2016/17 Turkish Super League runners-up Beşiktaş Sompo Japan acquired American forward Jon Keith Diebler from Galatasaray Odeabank on a one-year deal. The Ohio State University graduate Diebler (born 1988 in Sylvania, Ohio, USA) also played for  the Panionios, Pınar Karşıyaka and Anadolu Efes.