Milan Macvan

Milan Macvan
Player information
birthday	November 16, 1989
place of birth	Vukovar, SFR Yugoslavia
size	206 cm
position	Power forward
NBA draft	2011 , 54th pick Cleveland Cavaliers
Club information
society	EA7 Armani Milan
league	Lega Basket Serie A
Jersey number	13
Clubs as active
0 0 0–2007 FMP Železnik Belgrade 2007–2010 KK Hemofarm Vršac 2010–2011 Maccabi Tel Aviv 2011–2012 KK Partizan Belgrade 2012–2014 Galatasaray Istanbul 2014–2015 KK Partizan Belgrade Since 2015 EA7 Armani Milan 0
National team
Since 2009	Serbia

Milan Mačvan medal table
Basketball (men)
Serbia
European basketball championship
silver	2009 Poland

Milan Mačvan ( Serbian - Cyrillic Милан Мачван ; born November 16, 1989 in Vukovar , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a Serbian basketball player . After a promising start to his career, in which Mačvan made his debut as a junior in the Serbian men's selection , won a silver medal at the 2009 European Championships and was selected in the 2011 NBA Draft , he did not succeed in making the leap into the NBA, the most highly endowed professional league in the United States States . After championships in Israel , his homeland and Turkey as well as a final participation in the highest-ranking European club competition ULEB Euroleague 2010/11 , Mačvan has been playing for the Italian record champions Olimpia Armani Milan since the 2015/16 season .

Club career

In his youth Mačvan played for the teams of FMP Železnik in Belgrade . Even before his 18th birthday, he was used in the senior team in the Serbian top division . When he was allowed to sign a professional contract when he came of age, he switched to league competitor KK Hemofarm from Vršac , who was coached by the then U19 national coach Miroslav Nikolić , with whom Mačvan had won the U19 World Cup the previous summer. A short time later, Nikolić was replaced by Vlada Vukoičić , Mačvan's ex-coach at KK FMP. With KK Hemofarm, Mačvan was runner-up in the national championship and cup as well as in the Adriatic League in 2008 .

For his achievements in the 2008/09 Eurocup season , Mačvan was named Eurocup Rising Star as the best young player in this international club competition when he and KK Hemofarm reached the final tournament of the best eight teams in Turin , where they faced the eventual winner Lietuvos in the semi-finals rytas Vilnius resigned. In the following summer of 2009 he was invited to the Nike Hoop Summit , where he was able to lead the world selection with the team's best performance of 23 points and 14 rebounds to the first victory over the US selection since 1998, when Dirk Nowitzki led the world selection to victory. Despite an early elimination in the Eurocup 2009/10 , KK Hemofarm was reported by the renewed Serbian runner-up in 2010 for the qualification of the ULEB Euroleague 2010/11 , where they were eliminated in the second round in the last seconds of the second leg against the German representative Alba Berlin . Mačvan himself switched to Israeli record champions Maccabi Tel Aviv in December 2010, with whom he not only brought back the national championship and defended the cup win, but also made it to the final of the highest European club competition ULEB Euroleague, which at the Final Four tournament in Barcelona against Panathinaikos Athens was lost with 70:78.

In the summer of 2011, Mačvan was selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Draft . At the beginning of the 2011/12 season he was loaned to KK Partizan Belgrade, with whom he again won the Serbian double in 2012 from the club's point of view . After failing in the first group stage in the ULEB Euroleague 2011/12, just about reaching the next round, the defending champion in the Adria League was eliminated in the semifinals, while the competition was won by his former club Maccabi. In the 2012/13 season, Mačvan won Galatasaray SK from Istanbul, their first championship in 23 years. In the 2012/13 Eurocup , the team missed the quarter-finals because of the poorer direct comparison with the German representative ratiopharm Ulm , which the ambitious team managed to achieve a season later in the higher-ranking ULEB Euroleague 2013/14 . However , they lost all three play-off games against the eventual third and Spanish champions FC Barcelona . Controversially, however, as the defending champion, they lost the final series of the Turkish championship against arch-rivals Fenerbahçe Ülker in seven games after they failed to play the last game in protest. At Galatasaray, however, Mačvan did not come into play as expected and had lost his place in the Serbian national team, which became runner-up in the summer of 2014 without him.

To get his career off to a new start, Mačvan moved back to his homeland for the 2014/15 season to join series champion KK Partizan. However, the financially troubled club had already given up its greatest talents such as Bogdan Bogdanović in a strongly rejuvenated team . Despite the individually best performance of all players in the final series of Mačvan, Partizan also lost the last option to win the title that season in the championship final series against arch rivals Red Star. This also ended the series of titles from KK Partizan, which last did not win the national championship in 2001. Then Mačvan moved to the Italian record champions Olimpia Armani in Milan , who, however, had to continue playing after the preliminary round of the ULEB Euroleague 2015/16 in the Eurocup 2015/16 .

National team

As a youth and junior selection player, he already played an important role in Serbian national teams, with which he was able to become U19 World Champion in 2007, where he was named MVP of the tournament, and U18 European Champion and in 2008 U20 European Champion. In the summer of 2009 he was a member of the final squad at the European Championship for men, in which the Serbs were clearly inferior to them in the final with 63:85 after a preliminary round victory over world champions Spain . At the 2010 World Cup, they were able to return the favor in the quarter-finals against the Spaniards, but were beaten by a buzzer beater in the semi-finals to host Turkey by one point and also lost the bronze medal game against Lithuania . At the 2011 European Basketball Championships , they were eliminated in the quarter-finals against the eventual bronze medalist Russia and, after two further defeats in the placement round, they finished eighth. This also meant that qualification for the 2012 Olympic Games in London was missed .

Web links

Commons : Milan Mačvan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• MACVAN, MILAN - Player profile on the sides of the ULEB Euro League (English)
• Milan Mačvan - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Antonio Gotovac, Igor Marinović: Hemofarm grabs the most talented Serb. (No longer available online.) Kosarka.org, December 18, 2007, archived from the original on December 9, 2015 ; accessed on September 6, 2011 . 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.  
2. ↑ 2008-09 Eurocup Rising Star Trophy winner: Milan Macvan, Hemofarm Stada. EurocupBasketball.com, March 23, 2009, accessed September 6, 2011 . 
3. ↑ Nike Hoop Summit 2009 review. (No longer available online.) EuropeanProspects.com, April 18, 2009, archived from the original on September 23, 2011 ; accessed on September 6, 2011 . 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.  
4. ↑ In protest: Galatasaray does not compete. spox.com , June 17, 2014, accessed January 17, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Bećagović, M .: Marjanović MVP ligaškog dela prvenstva, a Mačvan finalne serije! Blic , June 18, 2015, accessed January 17, 2016 (Serbian). 
6. ↑ Milan Macvan / Player History. FIBAEurope.com, accessed September 6, 2011 . 
7. ↑ Macvan a star for Serbia. FIBAEurope.com, August 6, 2008, accessed September 6, 2011 .