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Nenad Vučinić
Personal information
Born (1965-04-07) April 7, 1965 (age 59)
Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
NationalitySerbian / New Zealander
Listed height6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Listed weight196 lb (89 kg)
PositionSmall forward
Career highlights and awards
Medals
Men's Basketball
Representing  New Zealand
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 2006 Melbourne National team

Nenad Vučinić (Serbian Cyrillic: Ненад Вучинић) (born April 7, 1965) is a Serbian basketball coach and the head coach of the Byblos Club in the Lebanese Basketball League. He is the former head coach of New Zealand men's national basketball team the Tall Blacks. He was also the head coach for Fulgor Libertas Forlì in the Italian second league (Legadue), and for BC Kalev/Cramo, a professional basketball club based in Tallinn, Estonia which participates in Korvpalli Meistriliiga, Baltic Basketball League and VTB United League.

As a player he grew in the youth side of Partizan Belgrade. He played for BASK-u, Radnicki, Kolubari and Slavonka (Osijek) before flying to New Zealand in 1989 with his wife.

As a player, Vučinić was voted to the NBL All-Star Five in 1990. He has won five NBL Coach of the Year titles while guiding Nelson to two titles in 1998 and 2007. He stood down as Giants coach after their most recent success and still holds the record for most NBL coaching wins (164). After six years as an assistant coach, he took over the Tall Blacks reins in 2007, taking them to victory over Australia in the 2009 FIBA Oceania Championship and into the last 16 at the 2010 FIBA World Championship.[1]

References

Template:New Zealand Squad 2000 Summer Olympics

Template:New Zealand Squad 2010 FIBA World Championship

Template:New Zealand Squad 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup