Kosta Perović

Kosta Perović
Player information
birthday	19th February 1985
place of birth	Osijek, SFR Yugoslavia
size	218 cm
position	center
NBA draft	2006 , 38th pick Golden State Warriors
Club information
society	BK Yenisei Krasnoyarsk
league	PBL / VTB-UL
Jersey number	13
Clubs as active
2000–2002 Beopetrol Belgrade 2002–2007 Partizan Belgrade 2007–2008 Bakersfield Jam → 2008 Golden State Warriors 2008–2010 Valencia Basket Club 2010–2012 FC Barcelona 2012–2013 Unicaja Málaga 2013–2015 BK Yenisei Krasnoyarsk 2015 Partizan Belgrade 00 00000
National team
2003–2006 2006–2011	Serbia and Montenegro Serbia

Kosta Perović medal table
Basketball (men)
Serbia
European Championship
silver	2009 Poland

Kosta Perović ( Serbian - Cyrillic Коста Перовић ; born February 19, 1985 in Osijek , SR Croatia ) is a former Serbian basketball player . Perović began his career at the dominant Serbian club KK Partizan from the capital Belgrade . In the 2006 NBA draft selected he played in the 2007-08 NBA season for the Golden State Warriors and the NBA Development League . In 2008 he returned to Europe and then played for five years in the Spanish ACB league , where he won the Spanish double and another championship with FC Barcelona . He had previously won the Eurocup 2009/10 with Valencia BC .

Career

Perović first played in Belgrade for Beopetrol before moving to the dominant Serbian series champion KK Partizan in 2002 as a 17-year-old. With Partizan, he subsequently won five state championships and in 2007 the ABA league . As a young talent, he took part in the final round of the 2003 European Basketball Championship in Sweden for the reigning world champions Serbia and Montenegro , where he was only used in the placement round after the quarter-final defeat against the eventual European champions Lithuania , where they finished sixth. At the following World Cup in Japan in 2006 he was again represented in the national team, where the team still competed as a Serbian-Montenegrin team despite the previous dissolution of the state association of Serbia and Montenegro . There he was used in all games with little playing time, but the defending champion, as the successor to the “rest of Yugoslavia” team from 2002, was eliminated in the second round against eventual world champions Spain . Previously, Perović was selected in the 2006 NBA draft by Golden State Warriors from the NBA .

For the 2007/08 season, the Golden State Warriors brought Perović to the United States and in November 2007 initially gave him to the " farm team " Bakersfield Jam in the NBA Development League (D-League). In addition to 21 games in the D-League, the Warriors brought him to their squad for seven appearances in the 2007/08 NBA . After the end of the season Perović returned to Europe and played in the Spanish ACB league for Pamesa Basket Club from Valencia . After Serbia did not qualify for the 2008 Olympic Games , Perović returned to the national team and won a silver medal with it at the finals of the 2009 European Championships in Poland, when they were world champions Spain, who had been defeated in the opening match of the preliminary round, in the final was clearly inferior. At club level, Perović was eliminated in the following two seasons in the quarter-finals of the Spanish championship. After they were eliminated in the quarter-finals in the Eurocup 2008/09 , they won this European club competition a year later under the new name sponsor Power Electronics in the final against the German representative Alba Berlin . Perović was the top scorer of the final in just under 23 minutes .

At the 2010 World Cup , they lost the semi-finals against the hosts, the Turkish national basketball team, only very narrowly in the closing seconds and missed winning a medal in the small final against Lithuania after a defeat. For the 2010/11 season, Perović moved to Valencia's league rivals FC Barcelona in the Catalan “ metropolis ”. At the national level, they first won the double from the championship and “Copa del Rey” in 2011 and defended the championship win a year later. As the defending champion in the ULEB Euroleague 2010/11 , they lost despite their home advantage in the quarter-final play-off against the eventual title winner Panathinaikos Athens . Against this team you could retaliate at the Final Four tournament a year later in the ULEB Euroleague 2011/12 , but only in the "small final" for third place after losing the semifinals to the eventual title winner Olympiacos Piraeus . With the Serbian national team, Perović had previously played a disappointing European Championship finals in 2011 , when they lost all games in the final round from the quarterfinals and with eighth place again missed participation in the Olympic Games.

For the season 2012/13 Perović moved again within the Spanish ACB league to CB Unicaja from Málaga . Then in the VTB United League before he went back to KK Partizan in summer 2015. Due to health problems, he was only able to play a few games for him and therefore announced his retirement on December 15, 2015.

Web links

• Perovic, Kosta - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB (English)
• Kosta Perovic - player profile on the websites of the Liga ACB (Spanish)
• archive.fiba.com: Players - Kosta Perovic (SRB) - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kosta Perovic's Profile / 2003 European Championship for Men. FIBA , accessed on February 13, 2013 (English, tournament statistics). 
2. ↑ Javier Gancedo: Power Electronic Valencia Champ !! ULEB , April 18, 2010, accessed on February 13, 2013 (official match report).