Aleksej Nikolić

Aleksej Nikolić
Brose Bamberg EuroLeague 2018
Player information
birthday	February 21, 1995
place of birth	Postojna , Slovenia
size	191 cm
position	Point guard
Club information
society	KK Partizan Belgrade
league	KLS
Jersey number	77
Clubs as active
2011–2015 OKK Spars Sarajevo 2015–2018 Brose Bamberg 2015–2017 → Baunach Young Pikes Since 2018 KK Partizan Belgrade -
National team
	Slovenia

Aleksej Nikolić (born February 21, 1995 in Postojna ) is a Slovenian basketball player who is currently under contract with the traditional Serbian club KK Partizan Belgrade and competes with him in the Serbian KLS , the national ABA league and the EuroCup . Before that, he had been in the Brose Bamberg squad for three years . With the Slovenian national team around Luka Dončić , he won the European basketball championship in 2017 .

Career

Nikolić began his basketball career in his hometown at KD Postojna , for whom his father David had already played, who became a coach himself after his career as a player. His brother Mitja is also a professional basketball player and national player. In his youth, Nikolić later played for KK Zlatorog Laško , before he left his home early at the age of 16 to join OKK Spars in Sarajevo , Bosnia , where he played with Adin Vrabac , who was one year older . While Vrabac already moved to the German first division club TBB Trier for the 2014/15 basketball Bundesliga and had rather mixed experiences there after the bankruptcy of the club, Nikolić finally moved to Germany a year later. He signed for four years with the German champion Brose Bamberg , who, however, due to restrictions on the use of foreign players, initially used him for the first two years with his farm team , the Baunach Young Pikes, in the second-highest division ProA . Nonetheless, Nikolić achieved his German premier league with a double license in a clear home win in mid-November 2015 over Mitteldeutscher BC , in which he scored eight points and two assists in a good 20 minutes of play . In the 2015/16 season he played an average of 20.6 minutes in 10 games in the BBL and 5.1 minutes in 12 games in the 2015/16 EuroLeague . In the following season 2016/17 , his share of the game remained almost unchanged with 13 games and an average of 19.3 minutes in the BBL, while he doubled his minutes in the EuroLeague 2016/17 in 10 games to an average of 10.4 minutes. In the 2017/18 season , Nikolić was finally appointed to Brose Bamberg's squad and therefore only competed in the BBL and the EuroLeague 2017/18 and was able to significantly increase his play to an average of 18 minutes in 28 BBL and 12 minutes in 29 EuroLeague Increase games.

In the course of the upheaval in Bamberg, Nikolić used an exit option and left the club to sign with KK Partizan Belgrade for the next three years and to be able to take on a larger role with more responsibility in the team in the future.

National team

Nikolić went through the junior teams of Slovenia in the various age groups, which, however, could not place in the finals of the European Championship (EM) in the front field. The highlight was the tournament victory of Division B at the U16 European Championships in 2011, with which the Slovenian youth team fought back after four years of abstinence among the 16 best European teams in this age group. After the U20 European Junior Championships in 2014, men's national coach Jure Zdovc , who himself played as a player in Nikolić's position as a playmaker, took part in the men's selection at the 2014 World Cup in Spain. Here Nikolić received three short appearances when the team was eliminated in the quarterfinals against the defending champions United States . A year later, when the U20 selection could barely ensure relegation in Division A, Zdovc initially renounced Aleksej and nominated his brother Mitja , who was in a different position, for the first time for a final squad at the 2015 European Championship .

At the 2017 European Basketball Championship , Nikolić won the gold medal with the Slovenian national team around Goran Dragić, who was named the best player in the tournament, and alongside Luka Dončić .

Web links

• easyCredit BBL - Aleksej Nikoli- - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
• Aleksej Nikolić - player profile on the website of the BARMER 2nd Basketball Bundesliga ( ProA and ProB )
• NIKOLIC, ALEKSEJ - Player profile on the website of the Euro League ( English )
• Aleksej Nikolić - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brose Baskets sign Aleksej Nikolić. (No longer available online.) Brose Baskets , July 9, 2015, archived from the original on July 11, 2015 ; accessed on November 22, 2015 (media info). 
2. ↑ Aleksej Nikolic Player Profile, Brose Baskets Bamberg, International Stats, Events Stats, Game Logs, Awards - RealGM. Retrieved December 16, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Brose Bamberg Basketball | Wright, Nikolic, Radosevic, Taraš and Musli are leaving Brose Bamberg - Scepanovic no longer part of the coaching team. Retrieved July 22, 2018 . 
4. ^ Nikolic to Belgrade . In: inFranken.de . ( infranken.de [accessed on July 22, 2018]).
5. ^ Slovenia Capture Division B Crown. FIBA Europa , August 8, 2011, accessed November 22, 2015 . 
6. ↑ Aleksej Nikolić's profile / 2014 FIBA ​​Basketball World Cup. FIBA , accessed on November 22, 2015 (English, individual tournament statistics).