Marko Milič
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| Player information | ||
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| Nickname | (Air) Milko | |
| birthday | May 7, 1977 | |
| place of birth | Kranj, SFR Yugoslavia | |
| size | 199 cm | |
| position | Power forward | |
| NBA draft | 1997 , 34th Pick, Philadelphia 76ers | |
| Club information | ||
| society | al-Kuwait SC | |
| league | Kuwaiti Division I. | |
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1993–1994 Triglav Kranj KK 1994–1997 Olimpija Ljubljana 1997 Philadelphia 76ers 1997–1999 Phoenix Suns → 1998 Fenerbahçe Istanbul 1999–2000 Olimpija Ljubljana 2000–2001 Real Madrid 2001–2002 Skipper Bologna 2002–2003 Euro Roseto 2003–2005 Scavolini Pesaro 2005– 2006 Vidi Vici Bologna 2006–2007 Olimpija Ljubljana 2007 Real Madrid 2007–2009 Olimpija Ljubljana 2009 Entente Orléanaise 45 2010–2012 Vanoli-Braga Cremona 2012–2013 Mahram Tehran Since 2013 al-Kuwait SC       
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| 1993-2007 | Slovenia | 59 |
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Marko Milič (born May 7, 1977 in Kranj , SR Slovenia ) is a Slovenian basketball player. The 1.99 m tall power forward was the first Slovenian in the NBA and has been playing in Kuwait since 2013 .
Career
Milič was discovered and promoted as a great talent early on. In 1993, when he was 16, he became a member of the Slovenian national team . With Olimpija Ljubljana he was three times Slovenian champion, two of them in 1995 and 1997 as a double combined with victory in the national cup competition. In 1997 he moved directly from Slovenia to the NBA to the Philadelphia 76ers , but played there in no NBA game. This changed with the Phoenix Suns , but in one and a half seasons he only came up with a total of 220 minutes of playing time. This time was interrupted by the lockout in the NBA in 1998. During this time Milič played for Fenerbahçe from Istanbul in the Türkiye Basketbol Ligi .
1999 Milič returned to Union Olimpija in Ljubljana , but they could not defend their championship title. After a season at Real Madrid , in which they lost in the final of the Spanish championship and the "Copa del Rey" cup competition, five years followed in which Milič was active in Italy for Fortitudo from Bologna , in Roseto and Pesaro as well as Virtus from Bologna was. With Fortitudo Skipper he was once Italian runner-up and with Scavolini Pesaro he was once a cup finalist. In 2006 he returned to Olimpija Ljubljana. In early 2007 he played again briefly for Real Madrid and was with this club Spanish champions and winner of the ULEB Cup , where he was only a few games in use before he missed the rest of the season due to an injury. He then returned to Ljubljana, where he again won two doubles with Union Olimpija in 2008 and 2009.
In 2009 Milič moved to the French LNB Pro A to the Entente 45 club from Orléans , which he left after a few games in early December. Milič then returned to the Italian Lega Basket Serie A in early 2010 and played for the promoted Vanoli from Cremona . In the following two and a half seasons it was only enough to stay in the league. At the beginning of December 2012 he followed the former Slovenian national coach Memi Bečirovič to Mahram Tehran in the Iranian Super League. In March 2013 he moved to Kuwaiti Division I for al-Kuwait SC, where he plans to stay beyond the end of the season.
Milič is one of the most consistent players in the Slovenian national team and has so far taken part in six European championships (1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005) and the 2006 World Cup. At the European Championships in 2007, however, he was absent due to an injury.
Web links
- KK Union Olimpija: Marko Milić (sic!) - Profile with short biography (English)
- Legabasket: Marko Milic - player profile on the statistics pages of Serie A (Italian)
- Milic, Marko - player profile on the ULEB website , as of 2009 (English)
- archive.fiba.com: Players - Marko MILIC (SLO) - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments (English)
- Marko Milič - player profile on NBA.com
- Marko Milic - player profile on basketball-reference.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marko Milic - Turkish Basketball League Player: 1998-1999 Regular Season. TBLStat.net, accessed on January 1, 2013 (English, seasonal statistics).
- ↑ Marko Milic. Liga ACB , accessed January 1, 2013 (Spanish, player profile).
- ^ Marko Milic returns to Union Olimpija. ULEB , August 2, 2007, accessed January 1, 2013 .
- ↑ Marko Milic - Orléans - Joueurs - Pro A: 2009/2010 season. Ligue Nationale de Basket , accessed on January 1, 2013 (French, seasonal statistics).
- ^ Marko Milic signs new deal at Al Kuwait. Court-side.com, April 15, 2013, accessed April 17, 2013 (news on the website of the player agency).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Milič, Marko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Milic, Marko |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovenian basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kranj , SR Slovenia |