Esko Ensio ”Sir Emal” Karhunen (4 January 1928 – 8 March 2016) was a Finnish basketball player and contributor.
[clarification needed] The 183-centimetre-tall (6 ft 0 in) Karhunen spent his whole SM-sarja career at Pantterit basketball club, and its predecessors, in Helsinki, and was in a record 13 Finnish championship-winning teams.
He was also capped eight times for the Finland men's national team and represented his country at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.
[2] After his career as a player, Karhunen was a basketball contributor [clarification needed] in Pantterit.
He organized a practice tournament which was played between 1971–2000 and brought the Harlem Globetrotters to Finland.