Boban Marjanović

Boban Marjanović
Player information
birthday	15th August 1988 (age 32)
place of birth	Zaječar , SFR Yugoslavia
size	224 cm
position	center
NBA draft	2010 , undrafted
Club information
society	Dallas Mavericks
league	NBA
Jersey number	51
Clubs as active
2006–2010 KK Hemofarm Vršac → 2007 KK Swisslion 2010–2011 PBK CSKA Moscow → 2011 Žalgiris Kaunas 2011–2012 BK Nizhny Novgorod 2012 KK Radnički Kragujevac 2012–2013 KK Mega Vizura 2013–2015 KK Red Star Belgrade 2015–2016 San Antonio Spurs 2015 –2016 → Austin Spurs 2016–2018 Detroit Pistons 2018–2019 Los Angeles Clippers 2019 Philadelphia 76ers 2019– Dallas Mavericks 00 000 00000 00000 0000
National team
Since 02008	Serbia

Boban Marjanović medal table
Basketball (men)
Serbia
U-19 basketball world championship
gold	2007 Novi Sad
U-20 European basketball championship
gold	2008 Riga
European basketball championship
silver	2017 Turkey

Boban Marjanović ( Serbian - Cyrillic Бобан Марјановић ; born August 15, 1988 in Zaječar , SR Serbia , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a Serbian basketball player who is currently under contract with the Dallas Mavericks of the NBA .

The junior world champion from 2007 already played abroad in Russia and Lithuania between 2010 and 2012 , before he was able to achieve his final breakthrough in his home country. As MVP of the Serbian League in 2013, he moved to Red Star Belgrade, with whom he won the national championship and the Supranational Adriatic Basketball League (ABA League) in 2015. In addition to other awards as MVP in Serbia, he was also selected among the five best players in both the ABA league and the highest-ranking European club competition ULEB Euroleague 2014/15 in 2015.

This enabled him then but still a career in the highest endowed professional league NBA in the United States with the San Antonio Spurs. Marjanović was the largest active player with 224 cm in the 2015/16 season , as his even bigger colleague Sim Bhullar was only used in the NBA Development League (D-League). Although he got only a small share of the game in the NBA, Marjanović became a fan favorite because of his imposing appearance and his gigantic hands the object of an internet phenomenon Boban Holding Things .

Career

After Marjanović had played basketball in his youth in Boljevac , he moved as a teenager at the age of 14 in 2002 to the youth teams of the then Serbian top club KK Hemofarm in Vršac on the southeastern border of Vojvodina . At the U-18 European Championship finals in 2006 he was in the final squad of the Serbian-Montenegrin youth team for the first time , which, however, failed to defend its title in the competition of this age group in Greece in fifth place, and initially only made individual appearances until he was in the following year was an integral part of the selection roster. In 2007 the U-19 basketball world championship took place in Novi Sad , the capital of Vojvodina, when the Serbian junior team had to compete after the secession of Montenegro without Vladimir Dašić , their top scorer at the U-18 European Championship finals a year earlier. Nevertheless, thanks to the support of younger players such as Milan Mačvan , the later tournament MVP , the Serbian selection reached the finals against the previously undefeated selection of the United States , which they could defeat with 74:69 and, as in 1987, at their home tournament Took the title to Belgrade. The Serbian selection had suffered their only tournament defeat in the preliminary round with 78:82 against the Americans, who competed with various later NBA professionals such as Michael Beasley , Patrick Beverley , Stephen Curry , Jonny Flynn , Donté Greene and DeAndre Jordan . At the U-20 European Basketball Championship in 2008, the Serbian junior team was able to defend the title of this age group this time. In the subsequent successful European Championship qualification in late summer 2008, Marjanović debuted for the first time in the Serbian men's selection .

World Cup tournament MVP Mačvan had also switched to KK Hemofarm in 2007, where Stefan Marković was another junior world champion. Together they reached the final of the Serbian Cup competition, the supranational ABA league 2007/08 and the play-off final series of the Serbian league KLS , all of which were lost to KK Partizan Belgrade from the Serbian capital. The final series of the championship was reached again in 2010 when they lost again to series champion Partizan. In addition to the supranational ABA league , Marjanović also gained international experience in the European club competition Eurocup . After Hemofarm 2008 failed in the round of 16 at the later finalist Akasvayu Girona , they moved into the final tournament "Final Eight" in Turin in the Eurocup 2008/09 , in which they lost in the semifinals to the eventual title winner Lietuvos rytas Vilnius . In the following competition, however, after only one win in six games, they were eliminated after the preliminary round. Then Marjanović was signed by the Russian top club and multiple European Cup winner CSKA from Moscow , who plays in the highest-ranking European club competition Euroleague . The strongly rejuvenated Moscow squad under the Serbian coach Duško Vujošević failed for the first time in the history of this competition to make it into the intermediate round of the 16 best teams and so after the dismissal of Vujošević in January 2011, Marjanović was loaned to the Lithuanian record champions Žalgiris from Kaunas , who but did not get beyond this intermediate round. With the Lithuanian team he also missed the play-offs of the supranational VTB United League 2010/11 , but he celebrated his first with wins in the Baltic Basketball League and the national LKL when Žalgiris was able to take the title back after three years Title wins at club level with the men. At the 2011 European Championship finals , Marjanović returned to the Serbian men's selection, but only made two short appearances when the former European runner-up and fourth place in the World Cup barely reached the quarter-finals after four prelim-round wins. After three more defeats, the Serbian selection failed to qualify for the 2012 Olympic basketball tournament in eighth place . Marjanović returned to Russia and initially played for the club from Nizhny Novgorod in the 2011/12 season . After his development stagnated here too, he moved back to Serbia in January 2012 and played for KK Radnički in Kragujevac . Marjanović had played for this club for a short time on loan from Hemofarm in 2007 before the Junior World Championships, when it was still based in Vršac and traded as Swisslion. With this club he reached eighth place in the 2011/12 ABA league .

In the 2012/13 season Marjanović played in the Serbian capital Belgrade for the club Mega Vizura. After the second place in the preliminary round of the KLS, the team reached the play-offs for the championship for the first time in the main round with the internationally active teams, in which they were inferior to local rivals Red Star in the semi-finals. Marjanović, who was named MVP for the 2012/13 KLS season, then moved to Red Star. In the following 2013/14 season, the team was initially defeated one more time in the play-off final series by the series champion KK Partizan, but they have already won the national cup competition and the main round of the ABA League 2013/14 . In the 2014/15 season, Red Star was finally able to end Partizan's 13-year dominance in the Yugoslav-Serbian championship and, in addition to the national double, also win the title in the 2014/15 ABA league . Marjanović was named MVP of the Serbian main round for the third time in a row, was chosen among the top five players of the ABA league season and was named Final MVP. After Red Star in the Euroleague 2013/14 had just failed to make it into the intermediate round and had at least reached the semi-finals in the Eurocup 2013/14 , Red Star was able to make the intermediate round in the Euroleague 2014/15 thanks to the performance of Marjanović for the first time Reach 16 best European teams. Although the team failed here after only four wins in 14 intermediate round games to move into the play-offs, Marjanović had set a new record in this competition with 16 double doubles and 256 rebounds in one season. Although Red Star had missed the play-offs, Marjanović recommended himself with an average double-double per game for the "All-Euroleague First Team" of the top five players in this competition that season. After the years in Russia had supposedly brought Marjanović's career to a standstill, his achievements in that Euroleague season were seen as a breakthrough in his personal career, with which he even at the age of 27 for the highest endowed professional league NBA in the United States States could recommend.

For the NBA 2015/16 Marjanović was signed by the Spurs from San Antonio in Texas , who in December 2015 and March 2016 also temporarily seconded the NBA rookie to their farm team Austin Spurs in the NBA Development League (D-League). Otherwise, became the big man because of his imposing appearance quickly became a cult figure of the fans and especially his huge hands have become an Internet phenomenon , as one based on Kim Jong-il Looking at Things educated subreddit Boban Holding Things at reddit generated public attention. In the meantime, however, his athletic achievements are also increasingly recognized in the NBA. Before the start of the 2019/20 season, the Dallas Mavericks sign him.

statistics

Regular season

Legend
GP	Matches played (Games Played)	GS	Games from the beginning (Games started)	MPG	Graduated minutes per game (Minutes per game)
FG%	Throw rate from the field (field goal percentage)	3P%	Throwing quota three-point throws (3-point field-goal percentage)	FT%	Free throw rate (free-throw percentage)
RPG	Rebounds per game (rebounds per game)	APG	Assists per game (assists per game)	SPG	Steals per game (steals per game)
BPG	Blocks per game (blocks per game)	PPG	Points per game (points per game)	FAT	Career record

season	team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
2015–16	San Antonio	54	4th	9.4	.603		.763	3.6	0.4	0.2	0.4	5.5
2016–17	Detroit	35	0	8.4	.545		.810	3.7	0.3	0.2	0.3	5.5
2017-18	Detroit	19th	1	9.0	.519		.800	3.0	0.7	0.2	0.3	6.2
2017-18	Los Angeles Clippers	20th	0	8.3	.551		.788	4.4	0.4	0.3	0.3	5.9
2018–19	Los Angeles Clippers	36	9	10.4	.607	.000	.758	4.2	0.6	0.3	0.5	6.7
2018–19	Philadelphia	22nd	3	13.9	.625	.500	.722	5.1	1.5	0.2	0.5	8.2
total		186	17th	9.8	.583	.400	.773	3.9	0.6	0.2	0.4	6.2

Play-offs

season	team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
2015–16	San Antonio	7th	0	6.0	.667		.889	2.0	0.4	0.0	0.3	3.4
2018–19	Philadelphia	11	0	9.5	.600	.000	.842	3.3	1.0	0.2	0.3	5.8
total		18th	0	8.2	.615	.000	.857	2.8	0.8	0.1	0.3	4.9

Web links

Commons : Boban Marjanović  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Boban Marjanović - player profile on NBA.com
• Boban Marjanović On: Basketball Reference — Website; Philadelphia, PA, 2000-2018. Retrieved May 7, 2018 (in English).
• MARJANOVIC, BOBAN - player profile on the websites of the Euroleague ( English )
• Boban Marjanović - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)
• Boban Holding Things - Subreddit at reddit (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dan Holzhauer: Boban Holding Things. National Basketball Association , January 27, 2016, accessed April 9, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Alysha Tsuji: Here are a bunch of photos of Spurs' Boban Marjanovic's hands making everything look tiny. USA Today , January 27, 2016, accessed April 9, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Boban Marjanović's profile / 2006 U18 European Championship for Men: DIVISION A. FIBA , accessed on April 9, 2016 (English, tournament statistics). 
4. ↑ Darko Nikolić: Stars hail Serbian achievements. (No longer available online.) FIBA , July 24, 2007, archived from the original on April 10, 2016 ; accessed on April 9, 2016 (English, media info). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ 2007 FIBA ​​U19 World Championship for Men: Game: SERBIA vs USA (Group B). FIBA , July 14, 2007, accessed on April 9, 2016 (English, game statistics in the archive). 
6. ↑ ZALGIRIS gets center Marjanovic on loan. Euroleague , December 31, 2010, archived from the original on June 15, 2011 ; accessed on April 9, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Zvezda's Marjanovic sets rebounds mark to end milestone season. Euroleague , April 9, 2015, accessed on April 9, 2016 (English, media information). 
8. ↑ All-Euroleague First and Second Teams announced. Euroleague , May 8, 2015, accessed on April 9, 2016 (English, media information). 
9. ↑ Jesus Gomez: Boban Marjanovic's questionable defense could limit his impact. Sports Blog Nation , August 2, 2015, accessed April 9, 2016 . 
10. ↑ Teddy Mitrosilis: Boban Marjanovic's gigantic hands make real life ridiculously tiny. Fox Sports , January 27, 2016, accessed April 9, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Marc Tracy: Boban Marjanovic Is Entering Fans 'Hearts, if Not the Spurs' Lineup. The New York Times , January 23, 2016, accessed April 9, 2016 . 
12. ↑ Fran Blinebury: Spurs' Marjanovic goes from curiosity to contributor. National Basketball Association , January 30, 2016, accessed April 9, 2016 . 
13. ↑ Sport1.de: Boban Marjanovic on Dallas Mavericks - a fan favorite in the NBA. Retrieved November 2, 2019 .