Pero Antić
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| Player information | ||
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| birthday | July 29, 1982 | |
| place of birth | Skopje, SFR Yugoslavia | |
| size | 211 cm | |
| position |
Power Forward / Center |
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| Club information | ||
| society | KK Crvena Zvezda | |
| league | EUROLEAGUE / TBL | |
| Jersey number | 12 | |
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Until 2000 KK Rabotnički Skopje 2001–2005 AEK Athens 2005–2007 Red Star Belgrade 2007–2008 Lukoil Akademik Sofia 2008–2009 Lokomotiv Rostov / Kuban Krasnodar 2010 Lukoil Akademik Sofia 2010–2011 BK Spartak Saint Petersburg 2011–2013 Olympiakos Piraeus 2013–2015 Atlanta Hawks 2015–2017 Fenerbahçe Ülker      
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Macedonia | |
Pero Antić ( Macedonian Перо Антиќ ; born July 29, 1982 in Skopje , SR Macedonia ) is a Macedonian basketball player . The national player of his country celebrated his final breakthrough late in his sporting life. After a fourth place at the EM 2011 with the Macedonian national team , Antić won the highest-ranking European club competition ULEB Euroleague twice with the Greek top team Olympiacos Piraeus , before he started a career in the highest-endowed professional league NBA at the comparatively old age of over 30 . After two years with the Atlanta Hawks, Antić moved back to Europe for the Turkish club Fenerbahçe SK in Istanbul for the 2015/16 season , and in 2017 won the highest-ranking European club competition ULEB Euroleague. Since 2017 he has been playing again for the current ABA League champion KK Crvena Zvezda.
Club career
Antić played for KK Rabotnički in his hometown in his youth . In the 1999/2000 season he was also used for the first time in championship games of the first team. He then spent a year in the United States at a high school , but returned in 2001 back to the Greek A1 Ethniki at AEK from Athens to play as a pro. In his first season at AEK, in which he was only used sporadically as a junior player, he achieved his first national championship success for the club in 32 years, when Olympiacos were the first in the main round in the play-off final series after two opening defeats with three consecutive victories down while you lost in the ULEB Euroleague 2001/02 its games against the national Greek rivals in the intermediate round of the sixteen best teams all. Then in 2003 and 2005 they lost the national championship final series against the series champion and local rival Panathinaikos Athens and did not get past the intermediate round of the sixteen best teams in the ULEB Euroleague . In 2005 Antić moved to Red Star in Belgrade , Serbia , with whom he was able to win the Cup competition of Serbia and Montenegro in 2006.
In 2007 he moved to the Bulgarian Sofia to PBK Lukoil Akademik , with whom he won the national championship and advanced to the round of 16 in the ULEB Cup 2007/08, which is a great success for the Bulgarian team, where they were eliminated by MBK Dynamo Moscow . He then moved to the Russian league to BK Lokomotive to Rostov , which moved a season later as BK Lokomotive Kuban to Krasnodar . During the 2009/10 season he left the club and returned for the remainder of the season to Akademik in Sofia, with whom he was able to win another Bulgarian championship. For the 2010/11 season he returned to Russia and played for BK Spartak Saint Petersburg, with whom he lost in the semifinals of the EuroChallenge to his ex-club Lokomotiw Kuban and then the game for third place in extra time against hosts Telenet Ostend .
In September 2011 Antić returned to Greece. Olympiacos Piraeus signed the Power Forward and won not only the Greek championship in 2012, but also twice the highest European club competition ULEB Euroleague in 2012 and 2013. The Greek championship in 2013 went again to the former series champion Panathinaikos Athens.
For the 2013/14 season he moved to the NBA for the Atlanta Hawks . He started in his first year in 26 of 50 games for the Hawks, scoring 7.0 points and 4.2 rebounds on average. With the Hawks he reached the playoffs, where they were eliminated in the first round. In the following season he even reached the Conference Finals with the Hawks, where they were eliminated against the Cleveland Cavaliers .
For the 2015/16 season he moved to Fenerbahçe Ülker .
National team
With the Macedonian national team, Antic was able to qualify for the 2009 European Championship finals in Poland . There they were eliminated in the second round despite a victory over the German national basketball team . At the following European Championship finals in 2011 , after an initial defeat in extra time against the former Yugoslav republic of Montenegro, the following six games were won against, among others, the representations of the other former republics from Croatia , Bosnia-Herzegovina and Slovenia as well as the neighboring country Greece. After another defeat at the end of the second round against the previously undefeated Russians , they beat hosts Lithuania in the quarterfinals, led by naturalized Bo McCalebb, and were only stopped in the semifinals by defending champions Spain . In the game for third place, a medal against the Russian national basketball team was narrowly missed.
Web links
- ANTIC, Pero - player profile on the websites of the ULEB Euroleague ( English )
- Pero Antić - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)
- Pero Antić - player profile on NBA.com
- Pero Antić - player profile on basketball-reference.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ostend down Spartak to clinch third. FIBA Europa , May 1, 2011, accessed on September 17, 2011 (English, match report).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Antić, Pero |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Антиќ, Перо (Macedonian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Macedonian basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Skopje , SR Macedonia, Yugoslavia |