Predrag Danilović

Predrag Danilović
in 1995
Player information
Nickname	Saša
birthday	February 26, 1970
place of birth	Sarajevo, SFR Yugoslavia
size	201 cm
position	Shooting Guard / Small Forward
NBA draft	1992 , 43rd Pick, Golden State Warriors
Clubs as active
000001987 KK Bosna Sarajevo 1989–1992 Partizan Belgrade 1993–1995 Virtus Bologna 1996–1997 Miami Heat 1997 Dallas Mavericks 1998–2000 Virtus Bologna 00000
National team
1989-1992 1992-2000	SFR Yugoslavia FR Yugoslavia

Predrag Danilović medal table
Basketball (men)
/ Yugoslavia
Olympic games
silver	1996 Atlanta	Yugoslavia
European Championship
gold	1989 Zagreb	Yugoslavia
gold	1991 Rome	Yugoslavia
gold	1995 Athens	Yugoslavia
gold	1997 Catalonia	Yugoslavia
bronze	1999 France	Yugoslavia

Predrag "Saša" Danilović ( Serbian - Cyrillic Предраг "Саша" Даниловић ; born February 26, 1970 in Sarajevo , SR Bosnia and Herzegovina ) is a Serbian basketball official and former Yugoslav basketball player who is considered one of the best European shooting guards of the 1990s. He is currently the president of his former team KK Partizan Belgrade. Danilović was voted Most Valuable Player of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A in 1998 .

Career

Danilović began his career in 1987 in his hometown at KK Bosna Sarajevo. At that time he was dissatisfied with his playing times and tried to move to KK Partizan Belgrade . However, his pre-club prevented this for a year, so he moved to Cookville High School in Knoxville , Tennessee ( United States ) for the following seven months . Then he returned to his homeland. In the summer of 1988 he was with the youth national team of Yugoslavia under coach Duško Vujošević U18 European champion. He made his debut for Partizan in the 1988/89 game year and had well-known team- mates in Zarko Paspalj , Vlade Divac and Aleksandar Đorđević . After just one season he played for the Yugoslav national team and took part in the 1989 European Championship in front of a home crowd in Zagreb , with which he also won gold. At the World Cup in Argentina the following year he could not take part because of an injury.

With the Yugoslav national team, Danilović won the European basketball championship four times (1989, 1991, 1995 and 1997), with the "rest" Yugoslav national team being excluded from the final round in 1993, and was also a member of the Yugoslav team that played at the Olympic Playing in Atlanta in 1996 won the silver medal. In 1992, at the age of 22, he was one of the most important players in a very young, but also very talented team from KK Partizan, which surprisingly won the most important European club competition at the time, the FIBA Europaliga , although the Yugoslav Wars had to play its home games in this competition in Spain . Danilović scored an average of 19.4 points on the way to winning the European Cup and was named the best player of the final tournament. In the final against Joventut de Badalona he stood out from the team of coach Željko Obradović with 25 points. He was then selected in the NBA Draft 1992 in 43rd place by the Golden State Warriors (later his rights were passed on), initially continued to play in Europe and moved to the Italian Serie A at Virtus in Bologna , where he won three consecutive championships between 1993 and 1995 won. He came up trumps there with strong values ​​in attack and came in the 1994/95 season to the highest value of his time in Italy (27.8 points / game). It was not until the beginning of 1996 that he went to the most highly endowed professional league NBA in the USA, first to the Miami Heat and in the course of the following season to the Dallas Mavericks. In his two NBA seasons he averaged 12.8 points per game.

In 1997 Danilović returned to Virtus Bologna and not only won the Italian championship again, but also a second time the FIBA ​​Europa League in 1998. His coach in Bologna was Ettore Messina . As in 1992 Danilović was chosen among the five best players of the final tournament, in the final against AEK Athens he scored 13 points. After the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 , however, he ended his career as a player. Together with Vlade Divac , after his active career, he became vice president of Partizan Belgrade and also of Group Seven , a charity organization for former Serbian basketball players. Since 2007 he has been the sole President Partizan of Belgrade. In 2008 he was honored as one of the fifty great personalities of basketball in Europe . The award was given by the Euroleague Basketball as part of an official ceremony in the Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid .

Danilović was a player who often featured in important and decisive games. In addition to his litter, his strengths also included his fighting spirit and his will to win.

successes

• Yugoslav Champion (1992) with Partizan Belgrade.
• Two Yugoslav Cup winners (1989 and 1992) with Partizan Belgrade.
• Four times Italian champion (1993, 1994, 1995 and 1998) with Virtus Bologna.
• Italian cup winner (1999) with Virtus Bologna.
• Two times Euroleague champion with Partizan Belgrade (1992) and Virtus Bologna (1998).
• Korać Cup 1988/89 with Partizan Belgrade
• Four times European champion with the Yugoslav national team (1989, 1991, 1995 and 1997).
• Second place at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.
• Third place at the European Championships in 1999.
• Most valuable player in the 1998 Italian Serie A.

Web links

• 50 Greatest contributors list: Predrag Danilovic - portrait on the ULEB website ( English )
• archive.fiba.com: Players - Predrag DANILOVIC (SRB) - Overview of participation in FIBA competitions (English)
• Legabasket: Predrag Danilovic - Profile on the statistics pages of Serie A ( Italian )
• Sasha Danilovic - player profile on NBA.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} [Euroleague] Sasha Danilovic, le shooteur serb, MVP du Final Four 91-92. In: Basket Retro. April 7, 2017, accessed June 26, 2020 (French). 
2. ↑ ^{a b} 101 Greats: Predrag Danilovic. Retrieved June 26, 2020 (English). 
3. ↑ Vladimir Stanković: 1992: Partizan's miracle year. ULEB , April 10, 2011, accessed May 11, 2013 . 
4. ↑ European League 1991-92. Retrieved June 26, 2020 . 
5. ^ Danilovic Predrag - Statistiche INDIVIDUALI. In: LEGABASKET SERIE A. Retrieved June 26, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Euroleague 1997-98. Retrieved June 26, 2020 .