Kenan Bajramović

Kenan Bajramović
Player information
birthday	May 24, 1981
place of birth	Zenica, SFR Yugoslavia
size	206 cm
position	Power forward
Club information
society	Beşiktaş Integral Forex
league	Türkiye Basketbol Ligi
Clubs as active
1997–2003 KK Čelik Zenica 2003–2005 KK Bosna Sarajevo 2005–2007 BK Azovmasch Mariupol 2007–2008 Lietuvos rytas 2008–2009 BK Kiev 2009 Türk Telekomspor 2009 ALBA Berlin 2010–2011 Lietuvos rytas 2011–2013 Banvit BK 2013–2014 VEF Riga 2014 OKK Spars Sarajevo Since 2014 Beşiktaş Integral Forex 00000 00000 00000 0
National team
Since 02003	Bosnia and Herzegovina

Kenan Bajramović (born May 24, 1981 in Zenica , SR Bosnia and Herzegovina ) is a Bosnian basketball player . After stints in his home country and in the Ukraine , Bajramović was particularly successful with the Lithuanian club Lietuvos rytas from Vilnius , and after a six-month engagement in the German basketball league in 2009 at Alba Berlin, he initially returned. Since 2011 Bajramović played mainly in Turkey and Latvia and briefly in his homeland.

Career

For the first time in a championship game with the seniors Bajramović came in the 1997/98 season with his home club KK Čelik from his hometown. At the European Championship finals in 2003 , he was used for the Bosnian national team, which was eliminated early after three defeats in the preliminary round. He then moved to the renowned basketball club KK Bosna in the capital Sarajevo , with which he became the Bosnian champion in 2005. In the European Championship finals in 2005 , the Bosnian selection dropped out of the tournament early after three defeats in the preliminary round. Subsequently, Bajramović changed and played in the Ukrainian Mariupol for BK Azovmash . With this club he won the Ukrainian double in 2006 and was able to successfully defend the championship in 2007. In 2007 the FIBA EuroCup reached the final, which was lost to the Spanish hosts Akasvayu Girona .

In 2007 Bajramović moved to the Lithuanian Baltic basketball league winner BC Lietuvos rytas Vilnius, who was also eligible to play in the ULEB Euroleague 2007/08 after reaching the finals in the ULEB Cup 2006/07 . If his performances in the preliminary round were rather changeable, Bajramović was one of the strongest players in the second round of the best sixteen teams in the Euroleague with just under 17 points on average. Nevertheless, the team just failed to make it to the quarterfinals. In the championship, cup and Baltic league they were each runner-up behind their national competitor Žalgiris Kaunas . In the 2008/09 season Bajramović played again in the Ukraine with the runner-up from Kiev under the Serbian coach Saša Obradović . After missing the qualification for the ULEB Eurocup they played in the now called EuroChallenge instead of FIBA ​​Euro Cup, where they were on their way to the quarter-finals. After a defeat against Bajramović ex-club BK Azovmasch in the Ukrainian cup competition, the club dismissed six of its legionnaires in January 2009, including Bajramović, who joined the Turkish club Türk Telekomspor from Ankara in February . In the Turkish championship play-offs they were eliminated in the semi-final series in three games against defending champion Fenerbahçe Ülker .

For the BBL season 2009/10 Bajramović was obliged by the German first division club Alba Berlin, with whom he failed before the start of the season in qualifying for the ULEB Euroleague 2009/10 . He found himself with the game system of the Montenegrin coach Luka Pavićević barely get along and in December 2009 the club and players agreed to terminate the contract. In January 2010 Bajramović joined his ex-club Lietuvos rytas in Lithuania again, with whom he won the Lithuanian double at the end of the season . In the ULEB Euroleague 2010/11 they reached the intermediate round of the sixteen best teams. After an away win at the later title holder Panathinaikos Athens , they still had a chance of winning the group on the last intermediate round match day, but were eliminated from the competition after the defeat at Caja Laboral . In the championship and the Baltic basketball league, arch-rivals Žalgiris Kaunas had to be given priority again. After increasing the number of participants in the 2011 European Championship finals , the Bosnian national team was again qualified for a finals. It succeeded against the Montenegrin selection, the first victory in a final round. After a disastrous 64:92 defeat against Finland, they failed in a three-way comparison because they made it to the intermediate round of the top twelve teams.

For the 2011/12 season Bajramović was obliged by Banvit Basketbol Kulübü from Bandırma , with whom he was eliminated in the qualification for the ULEB Euroleague 2011/12 in the first round and starts as with Alba Berlin 2009 in the ULEB Eurocup. In the Eurocup in 2012 and 2013 they were eliminated in the round of the 16 best teams. In the Turkish championship they just lost second in the main round in the play-off semi-final series against record champions Anadolu Efes SK . A year later they returned the favor in the new edition of the semi-final series against the same opponent and moved into the final series for the Turkish championship for the first time in the club's history. Here, however, they were relatively clearly defeated against Galatasaray Medical Park . In the 2013/14 season Bajramović first played again in the Baltic States with the Latvian champions VEF from the capital Riga . In mid-January, however, he already left the club after failing in the Eurocup 2013/14 in a direct comparison against his former team Banvit BK, who, conversely , had brought former Bundesliga player Earl Jerrod Rowland from Riga . Bajramović joined the ambitious first division promoted OKK Spars from Sarajevo in his Bosnian homeland before moving back to Turkey to Beşiktaş JK from Istanbul after a game at the end of January .

Web links

• BAJRAMOVIC, KENAN - Profile on the ULEB website (English)
• archive.fiba.com: Players - Kenan BAJRAMOVIC (BIH) - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments (English)
• Kenan Bajramovic - Turkish Basketball League Player - Profile on TBLStat.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ BC Kyiv release six players. FIBA Europa , January 13, 2009, accessed October 6, 2011 . 
2. ↑ Kenan Bajramovic (ALBA Berlin). (No longer available online.) Basketball Bundesliga , archived from the original on February 19, 2014 ; accessed on January 22, 2014 (player profile 2009/10 on the Beko Basketball Bundesliga website). 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.  
3. ↑ Sebastian Arlt: contract with Bajramovic dissolved. Berliner Morgenpost , December 16, 2009, accessed on January 22, 2014 (press release).