List of Serbian NBA players
The following is a list of Serbian basketball players that play or have played in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Center Vlade Divac and forward Žarko Paspalj were the first Serbian players to play in the NBA, in the 1989–90 season. Darko Miličić was the first basketball player from Serbia to win the NBA league in the 2004 season. After him, Predrag Stojaković and Ognjen Kuzmić won the league in the 2011 and 2015 seasons, respectively. In 2019, Vlade Divac became the first Serb to be included to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a player. Nikola Jokić is the player from Serbia with the most NBA honours, and is the first Serb, and only the third European to win the NBA Most Valuable Player Award.
Active players
The following is a list of current NBA players.
- Note: This list is correct through the start of the 2021–22 season.
Entry Year | Player | Draft Year (Pick) | Drafted by | Current team | Former team(s) (Years) | Se. | SGP | PGP | Honours[A] | Ref. |
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2015 | Nemanja Bjelica | 2010 (#35) | Washington Wizards | Golden State Warriors (2021–present) | 3 teams |
6 | 378 | 7 | — | [1] |
2015 | Nikola Jokić | 2014 (#41) | Denver Nuggets | Denver Nuggets (2015–present) | None | 6 | 453 | 43 | 26 honours
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2015 | Boban Marjanović | 2010 | Undrafted | Dallas Mavericks (2019–present) | 4 teams |
6 | 263 | 28 | — | [16] |
2017 | Bogdan Bogdanović | 2014 (#27) | Phoenix Suns | Atlanta Hawks (2020–present) | Sacramento Kings (2017–2020) | 4 | 253 | 18 | 4 honours |
[17] |
2020 | Aleksej Pokuševski | 2020 (#17) | Minnesota Timberwolves | Oklahoma City Thunder (2020–present) | None | 1 | 45 | 0 | — | [18] |
Former players
The following is a list of former NBA players.
Players who are still active outside NBA
Years | Player | Draft Year (Pick) | Drafted by | Team(s) (Years) | Se. | SGP | PGP | Honours[A] | Current club | Ref. |
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2013–2014 | Nemanja Nedović | 2013 (#30) | Phoenix Suns | Golden State Warriors (2013–2014) | 1 | 24 | 1 | — | Panathinaikos, Greece | [38] |
2013–2014; 2015 | Miroslav Raduljica | 2010 | Undrafted | 2 teams |
2 | 53 | 0 | — | Free agent | [39] |
2013–2015 | Ognjen Kuzmić[b] | 2012 (#52) | Golden State Warriors | Golden State Warriors (2013–2015) | 2 | 37 | 3 | NBA champion (2015) | Crvena zvezda, Serbia | [40] |
2017–2019 | Miloš Teodosić | 2009 | Undrafted | Los Angeles Clippers (2017–2019) | 2 | 60 | 0 | — | Virtus Bologna, Italy | [41] |
2019–2020 | Marko Gudurić | 2017 | Undrafted | Memphis Grizzlies (2019–2020) | 1 | 44 | 0 | — | Fenerbahçe, Turkey | [42] |
2019–2021 | Alen Smailagić | 2019 (#39) | New Orleans Pelicans | Golden State Warriors (2019–2021) | 2 | 29 | 0 | — | Partizan, Serbia | [43] |
Drafted players
The following is a list of drafted players who have never appeared in an NBA regular season or playoff game.
Players with Serbian citizenship or parentage
The following is a list of players, that play or have played in the NBA, who have citizenship of Serbia or Serbian parentage or who are Serbs of former Yugoslav republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Slovenia).
* | Denotes player who is still active in the NBA |
- Note: This list is correct through the start of the 2021–22 season.
See also
- List of European basketball players in the United States
- List of National Basketball Association players by country
- List of Croatian NBA players
- List of Montenegrin NBA players
- List of Serbian WNBA players
Notes
- Details
- ^ a b c This section doesn't include overseas honours, NBA D-League honours, NBA finals entry and various types of records.
- ^ 1) December/January 2021,[2] 2) March 2021,[3] 3) January 2022[4]
- ^ 1) November 6–12 2017,[5] 2) April 2–8 2018,[6] 3) October 16–21 2018,[7] 4) December 31 – January 6 2019,[8] 5) January 28 – February 3 2019,[9] 6) February 3–9 2020,[10] 7) January 18–24 2021,[11] 8) January 25–31 2021,[12] 9) March 15–21 2021,[13] 10) January 17–23 2022[14]
- ^ The Kings renounced their draft rights to Bodiroga in July 2017, ten years after his retirement as a player.[44]
- ^ Zagorac signed by the Grizzlies in 2017 to be waived by the team subsequently without a single game played.[45][46]
- Other nationalities, ethnic groups, native-language
- ^ a b Born in SR Montenegro, Yugoslavia
- ^ a b c d Born in SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
- ^ a b c d Born in SR Croatia, Yugoslavia
- ^ a b c Also holds the Greek citizenship
- ^ Vučević is born in Switzerland to Serbian parents from Montenegro and Bosnia.
- ^ a b c Ethnic Bosniaks of Serbia
- ^ a b c d Not fluent in the Serbian language
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