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Nenad Čanak (basketball)

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Nenad Čanak
Lietkabelis Panevėžys
PositionHead coach
LeagueLKL
EuroCup
Personal information
Born (1976-04-24) April 24, 1976 (age 48)
Zagreb, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia
NationalitySerbian
Listed height2.04 m (6 ft 8 in)
Listed weight98 kg (216 lb)
Career information
NBA draft1998: undrafted
Playing career1993–2012
PositionForward
Number13, 15
Coaching career2012–present
Career history
As player:
1993–1994Partizan
1994–1995Kikinda
1995–1999Spartak Subotica
1999–2003Partizan
2003–2004NIS Vojvodina
2004–2005Makedonikos
2005–2007Alba Berlin
2007–2008Lukoil Academic
2009Khimik
2009Gryfony Symferopil
2009Tamiš
2010PVSK Panthers
2010–2011AEK Larnaca
2011–2012Železničar Inđija
As coach:
2012–2016Mega Basket (assistant)
2015–2017Serbia U20 (assistant)
2016–2017Partizan (assistant)
2017Spartak Subotica
2017–2018Partizan
2018–2023Lietkabelis Panevėžys
2023Türk Telekom
2023–presentLietkabelis Panevėžys
Career highlights and awards
As head coach:

As player:

Medals
Men's basketball
Representing  Yugoslavia
'22 & under' World Championship
Bronze medal – third place 1997 Australia Team

Nenad Čanak (Serbian Cyrillic: Ненад Чанак; born April 24, 1976) is a Serbian professional basketball coach and former player. He is currently the head coach for Lietkabelis Panevėžys of the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL) and the EuroCup.

Professional career

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Čanak started his career in Partizan making his debut in the 1993–94 season. After that in the period between 1995 and 1999 Čanak was in the lines of the Serbian club Spartak Subotica. Then he came back again to wear the jersey of Partizan until 2003, demonstrating very good skills and participating in three tournaments – the YUBA League, the Adriatic League and the Euroleague. In 2002 he made a double-double, winning both the national championship and the Cup of FR Yugoslavia.

The career of the forward continued in NIS Vojvodina (2003–2004) and in the Greek Makedonikos (2004–2005). He has registered participation in all club tournaments in Europe – FIBA Europe League with Vojvodina, and ULEB Cup with Makedonikos and Alba Berlin.

In the summer of 2005, Čanak signed a contract with ALBA Berlin. During his first season in Germany he scored an average of 9,3 points, 3,2 rebounds and 1,3 assists in 43 games of the Bundesliga and an average of 8,3 points, 4,1 rebounds in 10 games in the ULEB Cup competition. In April 2007, Čanak suffered an injury and had been recovering in the next two months. In the 2006–07 season he took part in 11 games of ULEB and made an average of 5,6 points and 2,0 rebounds per game, while in the Bundesliga he had 33 games with 4,8 points per game. While wearing the jersey of Alba Berlin, he won the German Cup in 2006.

In the 2007–08 season he played with Bulgarian club Lukoil Academic. Čanak helped Lukoil to reach the ULEB Cup Last 16 and record an unprecedented undefeated domestic season, sweeping through the Bulgarian Cup, regular season and playoffs for a 44–0 record. Čanak averaged 8.1 points and 3.8 rebounds off the bench in 10 ULEB Cup appearances and 12.4 points and 4 rebounds per game in the Bulgarian League.

In 2009, he played in Ukraine with Khimik and Gryfony Symferopil. In the 2009–10 season he had a short stint with Tamiš before he moved to the Hungarian team PVSK Panthers. In the 2010–11 season he played in Cyprus with AEK Larnaca and his last team was Železničar Inđija in 2011–12.[1]

Coaching career

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From 2012 to 2016, Čanak worked as an assistant coach of Dejan Milojević in Mega Basket. In the 2016–17 season he served as an assistant coach of Aleksandar Džikić in Partizan, and actually made his debut as a head coach in Džikic's absence, including leading the team to the 2017 Serbian Cup final.

His first job as a head coach was in Spartak Subotica in the 2017–18 season. On 14 December 2017, Čanak was named as the head coach of Partizan.[2] He resigned as the head coach of Partizan in October 2018.

On 1 November 2018, Čanak became the head coach for Lietkabelis Panevėžys of the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL).[3] With Lietkabelis, Čanak became the most successful coach ever for the team - taking over a largely under-achieving team, Čanak went on to win bronze medals in the Lithuanian Basketball League in 2020, 2021 and 2023, along with a shocking finals appearance in 2022, finishing with silver. Lietkabelis also managed to reach the finals of the King Mindaugas Cup, the national Cup tournament, in 2021 and 2022, taking silver, and won the bronze medals in 2020 and 2023, as well as helping Lietkabelis reach the first ever playoff competitions in club history, by reaching the playoffs of the EuroCup, in 2022 and 2023.

On 19 June 2023, Čanak signed with Türk Telekom of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL).[4] On 24 October, he parted ways with the club.[5]

On 27 October 2023, Čanak returned to Lietkabelis Panevėžys.[6] With Lietkabelis, Čanak again finished with bronze medals in the Lithuanian Basketball League in 2024, and won silver in the King Mindaugas Cup.

Coaching record

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Legend
G Games coached W Games won L Games lost W–L % Win-loss %

Note: The EuroLeague is not the only competition in which the team played during the season. He also coached in domestic competition, and regional competition if applicable.

EuroCup

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Team Year G W L W–L% Result
Partizan 2017–18 2 0 2 .000 Eliminated in regular season
2018–19 4 1 3 .250 Parted ways
Lietkabelis 2020–21 10 2 8 .200 Eliminated in regular season
2021–22 17 9 8 .529 Eliminated in eighthfinals
2022–23 19 10 9 .526 Eliminated in eighthfinals
Türk Telekom 2023–24 3 1 2 .333 Parted ways
Lietkabelis 14 6 8 .429 Eliminated in regular season
Career 69 29 40 .420

Domestic Leagues

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Team Year G W L W–L% Result
Spartak 2017–18 11 7 4 .636 Parted ways
Partizan (KLS) 14 11 3 .786 Lost in semifinals
Partizan 2017–18 11 6 5 .545 5th place
Partizan 2018–19 5 2 3 .400 Parted ways
Lietkabelis 2018–19 41 23 18 .561 Lost in 3rd place series
Lietkabelis 2019–20 24 16 8 .667 3rd place[a]
Lietkabelis 2020–21 46 28 18 .609 Won in 3rd place series
Lietkabelis 2021–22 42 30 12 .714 Lost 2022 Lithuanian League Finals
Lietkabelis 2022–23 45 29 16 .644 Won in 3rd place series
Türk Telekom 2023–24 4 2 2 .429 Parted ways
Career 243 154 89 .634
  1. ^ Season stopped due to the Covid-19 pandemic

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Čanak se vratio u srpsku košarku" (in Serbian). novosti.rs. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  2. ^ "Nenad Čanak is the new head coach of Partizan NIS". aba-liga.com. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
  3. ^ "G.Kadžiulį prie komandos vairo keičia N.Čanakas". kklietkabelis.lt (in Lithuanian). Retrieved 1 November 2018.
  4. ^ "Nenad Canak officially takes over Turk Telekom". Eurohoops. 19 June 2023. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
  5. ^ "Turk Telekom parts ways with Nenad Canak". EuroCup. 24 October 2023. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
  6. ^ "Nenad Canak returns to Lietkabelis". basketnews.com. 27 October 2023. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
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