Branko Milisavljevic

Branko Milisavljevic
Player information
Nickname	Mili
birthday	July 21, 1976
place of birth	Titovo Užice, Yugoslavia
size	194 cm
position	Point guard
Clubs as active
Until 1996 KK Radnički Belgrade 1996–2000 KK Borac Čačak 2000 Shakhtyor Tscheremchowo 2000–2001 KK Partizan Belgrade 2001–2002 CSP Limoges 2002–2003 PAOK Thessaloniki 2003 Olympiacos Piraeus 2003–2004 MBK Dynamo Moscow 2004–2005 Telekom Baskets Bonn 2005–2006 Ironi Naharija 2006 Mega Ishrana 2006–2007 SLUC Nancy Basket 2007 Paris-Levallois Basket 2007–2008 Marousi Costa Coffee 2008–2009 Lietuvos rytas Vilnius 2009 Cajasol Sevilla 2009–2010 PAOK Thessaloniki 2010–2012 KK Mega Vizura 2012–2013 Lugano Tigers 2013–2014 Lions de Geneva00 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000

Branko Milisavljević (born July 21, 1976 in Titovo Užice , SR Serbia ) is a Serbian basketball player .

Career start in Serbia

The 1.94 m tall player began his career in the youth of KK Radnički in Belgrade , where he also played with Aleksander Nadjfeji , among others . He also ran for numerous Yugoslav national youth teams. After he ran up the 1995/96 season in the local first men's team, he then moved to KK Borac Čačak in the second Yugoslav league. There he played a total of four years and made it to the first division with his team in the 1998/1999 season. Milisavljević was also elected MVP of the second division.

In the 1999/2000 season he was then top scorer of the Yugoslav League with 25 points per game and was also allowed to take part in the Allstar Game in 2000. The reward for his strong performance was his nomination for the 24-man national squad in the run-up to the Olympic Games, from which he was deleted before the start of the Games.

Career

Before the 2000/2001 season, Milisavljević decided to take the plunge abroad and moved to Russia to Shakhtar from Cheremkhovo . In December 2000, however, he returned to Serbia, where he played for KK Partizan in Belgrade for the rest of the season. There he also appeared for the first time at the highest European level by playing for Belgrade in 15 games in the Suproleague and averaging 13 points and 4 assists per game, but failed in the second round to ASVEL from Villeurbanne .

The renewed jump abroad to Śląsk Wrocław in the Polish city of Wroclaw in the summer of 2001 ended after just a few weeks, as Milisavljević was released in September 2001 before the start of the season. He was then without a club for more than a year before he was signed by CSP from Limoges in October 2002 . But even there he was not happy and changed in the summer of 2003, therefore, initially for one year to PAOK in Thessaloniki to Greece , where he was one with 16 points and 4 assists per game to the best construction players in the league. A year later he moved to Olympiacos within the Greek league.

The associated return to the highest European competition, the ULEB Euroleague , was extremely disappointing with only 4 points per game. Milisavljević said goodbye to Dynamo Moscow in December 2003, but only stayed there until the end of the season.

The 2004/05 season Milisavljević played in Germany for the Telekom Baskets from Bonn with whom he reached the cup final, but also missed the playoff participation for the first time in the club's history, so that the club did not take the option to extend the contract. After stations in Israel and Serbia, he moved to the Stade Lorrain Université Club in Nancy during the 2006/07 season , where he also returned to the European stage. In the second highest European club competition ULEB-Cup , he got 14 points per game in seven games with throwing rates of over 50% from the field. In the French league LNB Pro A , Nancy won the main round, but could not win the championship title in the play-offs .

In the summer of 2007 Milisavljević moved within the league to the new merger club Paris-Levallois, but returned to Marousi Costa Coffee in Greece in December of the same year. In the playoffs of 2008 he caused a sensation there, because with 19 points and 3 assists he played a major role in the fact that Marousi threw the favorite Aris Thessaloniki out of the race in the quarter-finals and also caused great problems in the semifinals for Olympiacos Piraeus and only through a missed throw retired at the last second.

Milisavljević then moved to BK Lietuvos Rytas in Vilnius , where he was the team's top scorer in the Eurocup, as the ULEB Cup was now called, with an average of 16.4 points. He left the team in January 2009 before they won the Eurocup for the second time in the club's history and moved to Spain to Cajasol from Seville . There he got nine points and three assists on average in the Spanish ACB league . At the time of his commitment, Sevilla were bottom of the table with two wins and fourteen defeats. Thanks to eight wins from the following 16 games, they still managed to stay relegated and ended the season in 14th place.

After six months without a contract, he signed a contract with PAOK Thessaloniki in December 2009. In 13 games he averaged eight points per game and ended the season with his team in fifth place in the table. In the summer of 2010 he finally returned to the Serbian league and played two seasons on KK Mega Vizura. At the beginning of December 2012, he was signed again by the Swiss champions Lugano Tigers, who had made a poor start to the season. With the team he reached the final, which was lost in a best-of-five series in five games against the "Lions" from Geneva . In the following 2013/14 season he played again for the Geneva champions, but this time they lost in the semi-final series against Lugano.

Web links

• BeoBasket :: Branko Milisavljević - Profile page of his agency ( english )
• MILISAVLJEVIC, BRANKO - Statistics on euroleague.net (English)
• easyCredit BBL - Branko Milisavljevic - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website