KK Mega Basket

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KK Mega Basket
Founded December 23, 1998
Hall Sportski Centar Pinki Sremska Mitrovica
(2,600 places)
Homepage bcmegabasket.net
president Velimir Mihailović
Trainer Dejan Milojevic
league Košarkaška liga Srbije (KLS)
2015/16: 3rd place
  ABA League
2015/16 : 2nd place
Colours Pink & Green
Jersey colors
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home
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Away
successes
Serbian Cup Winner 2016
Vice ABA League 2016
Third Balkan League 2009

The KK Mega Basket ( Serbian - Cyrillic Кошаркашки клуб Мега , Košarkaški klub Mega ) is a basketball club that has been based in Sremska Mitrovica in Vojvodina since 2014 . Originally founded in the capital Belgrade in 1998 as KK Avala Ada , the club's men's team has played first-class in Serbia since 2005 and merged with KK Vizura to form KK Mega Vizura in 2009 , before adopting the sponsor name KK Mega Leks in 2014 .

history

The club emerged from a company sports group of the packaging manufacturer Avala Ada, which has participated in competitions since 1995. At the end of 1998 it was decided to take part in the official league operation and founded the club KK Avala Ada in Belgrade. In the first year of existence, the men's team was promoted to the third highest division in 2000. After two third places you could finally achieve promotion to the second division at the end of the 2002/03 season. There they immediately reached third place in the 2003/04 season and only just missed promotion to the top division. After the end of the season, the agency BeoBasket of the players' agent Miško Ražnatović got into the club and took control of the men's team. In the following season, they were promoted to the top division in 2005 and the club changed its name to KK Mega Basket in December 2005 . Through a sponsorship contract, the club name KK Mega Ishrana came about, which the team wore until 2007, before continuing to play with changing sponsors. In the 2008/09 season, the men's team took part in an international club competition for the first time and reached third place in the Balkan League .

In 2009 the team merged with the KK Vizura in Belgrade and entered the border between Novi Beograd and Zemun as KK Mega Vizura . After playing home games in Krusevac in the 2012/13 season , the team played the home games of the ABA League 2013/14 in Smederevo in their first season in the supranational Adriatic Basketball League (ABA League) . For the following season, the team moved to Sremska Mitrovica in Vojvodina under the name KK Mega Leks , where they have been playing since 2014. In the Serbian Cup competition named after Radivoje Korać , the team celebrated their first title win in the final against KK Partizan Belgrade in 2016 , the MVP of the competition was the Montenegrin Nikola Ivanović . In the ABA League 2015/16 they lost the play-off final series against the defending champion and Serbian champion KK Roter Stern Belgrade in three games. The French Timothé Luwawu was chosen among the top five players in the ABA league.

The team's squad consists almost exclusively of young players who are represented by BeoBasket and who are supposed to recommend themselves for contracts, primarily with foreign clubs, at a high level of competition. This succeeds with relatively good success; the later NBA players Nikola Peković , Boban Marjanović , Nikola Jokić on their way to the highest endowed professional league and the " draft picks " Milovan Raković , Vasilije Micić and Nemanja Dangubić were already active for the club. At the beginning of the 2015/16 season, the average age of the team, which competes in the KLS and ABA league at a high European level, was 19.6 years of age under 20. But also seasoned players represented by BeoBasket such as the old international Aleksandar Rašić or Vice European Champion Novica Veličković have meanwhile become active for the club if they had to bridge a period without adequate contract offers.

Chronicle of the club names

  • 1998-2005: KK Avala Ada
  • 2005-2007: KK Mega Ishrana
  • 2007/2008: KK Mega Aqua Monta
  • 2008/2009: KK Mega Hypo Leasing
  • 2009–2014: KK Mega Vizura
  • Since 002014: KK Mega Leks

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