Dražen Dalipagic
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| Nickname | Praja | |
| birthday | December 27, 1951 | |
| place of birth | Mostar, SFR Yugoslavia | |
| size | 197 cm | |
| position | Small forward | |
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1971–1980 KK Partizan Belgrade 1980–1981 Carrera Venezia 1981–1982 KK Partizan Belgrade 1982–1983 Real Madrid 1983–1985 Pallalcesto Amatori Udine 1985–1988 Reyer Venezia 1988–1989 Glaxo Verona 1990–1991 KK Crvena Zvezda.svg){kind=small}  
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| 1973-1986 | Yugoslavia | 243 |
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1992–1996 Pallacanestro Gorizia 1997–1998 MZT Skopje 2000–2001 Astra Banka Belgrade 
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| Olympic games | ||
| silver | 1976 Montreal | |
| gold | 1980 Moscow | |
| bronze | 1984 Los Angeles | |
| World championships | ||
| silver | 1974 Puerto Rico | |
| gold | 1978 Philippines | |
| bronze | 1982 Colombia | |
| bronze | 1986 Spain | |
| European Championship | ||
| gold | 1973 Spain | |
| gold | 1975 Yugoslavia | |
| gold | 1977 Belgium | |
| bronze | 1979 Italy | |
| silver | 1981 ČSSR | |
Dražen Dalipagić ( Cyrillic Дражен Далипагић ; born December 27, 1951 in Mostar , VR Bosnia and Herzegovina ) is a former basketball player who was European and world champion as well as Olympic champion with Yugoslavia . He is one of the few players to be inducted into both the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the FIBA Hall of Fame . He was voted Europe's basketball player of the year three times . He has lived in Belgrade since the end of his professional career .
Career
society
Although Dalipagić had only started playing basketball at the age of 19, he quickly established himself as the dominant basket scorer at KK Partizan Belgrade . With the exception of the 1978/79 season, when he was doing his military service, Dalipagić was active at Partizan from 1971 to 1980 and won the Yugoslav Championship with this club in 1976 and the Korać Cup in 1978 .
He then moved to the second Italian division for Carrera Venezia . The club was promoted to the A1 series , but Dalipagić returned in 1981 for another year to Partizan Belgrade. For this club he scored a total of 8,278 points in 305 games, in his last season alone the points average was 43 per game. In the following season he was active with his national team colleague Mirza Delibašić at Real Madrid .
After Dalipagić had again succeeded in promotion to Serie A1 in 1984, this time with Pallalcesto Amatori Udine , he played another year at the club now coached by the former Yugoslav national coach Aleksandar Nikolić . The next move to Reyer Venezia followed, and again the prompt promotion to the A1 series succeeded, but this time he stayed a total of three years. In the 1987/88 season Dalipagić scored 1,417 points in 39 games and was the best scorer in the league before Oscar Schmidt . Again the change to the A2 series followed, but with Glaxo Verona the promotion did not succeed this time. Overall, Dalipagic scored 7,993 points in 241 games in the Italian league. After a year break, he returned to the field for the 1990/91 season and ran for KK Crvena Zvezda .
National team
Dalipagić was active for the Yugoslav team from 1973 to 1986 and won alongside greats such as Krešimir Ćosić , Mirza Delibašić , the long-time club colleague at Partizan Dragan Kićanović and towards the end of Dražen Petrović a total of 12 medals at major championships.
At his first three European championships in 1973 , 1975 and 1977 he won the title. In 1979 he won the bronze medal, and in 1981 Dalipagić won the silver medal with Yugoslavia.
Dalipagić is one of the most successful participants in world championships with four medals (once gold ( 1978 ), once silver ( 1974 ) and twice bronze ( 1982 and 1986 )). He was also elected MVP of the tournament in 1978 and is the third-best scorer in World Cup history with 568 points .
At the 1980 Olympic Games , Dalipagić also won the Olympic gold medal after Yugoslavia won the silver medal in 1976 . After the final defeat against the United States , Red Auerbach had personally offered him a professional contract with the Boston Celtics after a trial session , but Dalipagic had declined to get his amateur status and thus the right to play for the national team. At the 1984 Olympics, he finally won the bronze medal. Dalipagić scored a total of 3,131 points in 243 national games.
Honors
During his playing days, Dalipagić was voted Europe's Basketball Player of the Year in 1977, 1978 and 1980, and in 1978 he was also named Yugoslavia's Sportsman of the Year. In 2004 he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and in 2007 into the newly established FIBA Hall of Fame .
Dražen Dalipagić was honored in May 2008 as one of the fifty great personalities of basketball in Europe . The award was given by the Euroleague Basketball in an official ceremony in the Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid , in Madrid ( Spain ).
See also
Web links
- 50 Greatest contributors list: Drazen Dalipagic - Honored as one of the 50 greatest contributors in European basketball in 2008
- archive.fiba.com: Players - Drazen DALIPAGIC (YUG) - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments (English)
- Dražen Dalipagić in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- FIBA Hall of Fame: Dražen DALIPAGIĆ (2007 Class) - Entry in the FIBA Hall of Fame from June 18, 2007 (English)
- Dražen Dalipagić in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame On: Hoophall website; Springfield, MA, 2017. Retrieved November 8, 2017 (in English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vladimir Stanković: Drazen Dalipagic, the sky jumper. ULEB Euroleague , January 21, 2012, accessed December 17, 2012 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Dalipagic, Drazen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Далипагић, Дражен (Cyrillic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Yugoslav basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mostar , SFR Yugoslavia (now part of Bosnia and Herzegovina) |