Slavko Vraneš

Slavko Vraneš
Slavko Vraneš (right, 2010)
Player information
birthday	January 30, 1983
place of birth	Pljevlja, SFR Yugoslavia
size	226 cm
position	center
NBA draft	2003 , 39. Pick New York Knicks
Club information
society	Zob Ahan Isfahan
league	Iranian basketball super league
Clubs as active
Until 2000 FMP Železnik Belgrade 2000 Efes Pilsen Istanbul 2001 KK Budućnost Podgorica 2001–2002 Antalyaspor 2002–2003 KK Budućnost Podgorica 2003 New York Knicks 2004 Portland Trail Blazers 2004 KK Red Star Belgrade 2004–2007 KK Budućnost Podgorica 2007–2010 KK Partizan Belgrade 2010–2010 2011 UNICS Kazan 2011–2012 Sanaye Petrochimi Bandar Imam BC 2012 Mahram Teheran 2013 KK Metalac Valjevo Since 2013 Zob Ahan Isfahan00 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 0
National team
Since 02008	Montenegro

Slavko Vraneš ( Serbian - Cyrillic Славко Вранеш ; born January 30, 1983 in Pljevlja , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a Montenegrin basketball player . At 2.26 m tall, he is currently one of the greatest professional basketball players. In his youth and junior years he played for various clubs in his home country and Turkey . In 2003 he was the NBA -Klub New York Knicks drafted and had in January 2004 use in the NBA for the Portland Trail Blazers. He then returned to his homeland and played in Serbia and Montenegro for six years . In the 2010/11 season he had a contract with UNICS in Kazan , Russia , with which he won the 2010/11 Eurocup . At the finals of the 2011 European basketball championships in Lithuania , he was in action for the Montenegrin national basketball team.

Career

Since 1997 Vraneš has been in training at KK FMP Železnik in the capital Belgrade . In 2000 he did trial training in Turkey and was committed by Efes Pilsen SK from Istanbul , who did not use him in championship games. In January 2001 Vraneš completed eight games for KK Budućnost from Podgorica in the newly created Adriatic League (ABA) . He then returned to Turkey and was loaned to the Turkish second division club from Antalya . In the 2002/03 season he was back in action for KK Budućnost. In the 2003 NBA Draft , the New York Knicks selected him as the 39th player overall, did not use him the following season, otherwise instead on the Injury List . At the end of December 2003, Vraneš was finally released from the contract and he finally signed a ten-day contract as a free agent with the Portland Trail Blazers, for which he was on the field for just under three minutes. Vraneš was able to secure an entry in the list of the ten greatest NBA players of all time.

At the end of January 2004, Vraneš finally signed a contract with KK Crvena zvezda (German: KK Red Star) in Belgrade, where he was only used in the ABA. In the following season he returned to the Montenegrin capital Podgorica and played the following three seasons for KK Budućnost, with whom he won the national double after separating from Serbia in the premiere season of the Montenegrin championship . He was then committed by the Serbian serial champion KK Partizan Belgrade , with whom he won three times in a row the triple of national championship and cup win and championship of the ABA. In the highest European league ULEB Euro League was eliminated twice in the quarterfinal playoffs of before in the ULEB Euro League 2009/10 that in Paris discharged Final Four reached, for the first time since ULEB organizes the Euro League. At the final tournament itself they unfortunately lost both games after extra time and finished fourth.

For the 2010/11 season he moved to the Russian club UNICS from Kazan, with whom he was able to take first place in the regular season in the Russian PBL . In the semi-final series of the play-offs they failed to BK Chimki and could defeat Lokomotiw Kuban from Krasnodar in a series for third place . Also in the purely Eastern European VTB United League 2011 they failed in the semifinals of the Final Four tournament at the later title holder BK Chimki and came third after beating the Ukrainian champions BK Azovmasch Mariupol . But they were ultimately victorious in the Eurocup 2010/11 and were able to achieve the club's greatest international success by winning the title. Vraneš himself was no longer used after the intermediate round in the Eurocup. With the Montenegrin national team, Vraneš took part in the 2011 European Championship finals in Lithuania, where they lost the remaining four preliminary round matches and were eliminated early after an opening win in extra time against the later semi-finalists Macedonia .

In the 2011/12 season he was active for the Iranian club Sanaye Petrochimi from Bandar-e Mahschahr on the Gulf Coast . For the play-offs of the Iranian championship, he moved to defending champion Mahram from the capital Tehran . After he had only been active for the Serbian club KK Metalac from Valjevo at the end of the season in the 2012/13 season , he moved again to Iran for the 2013/14 season, where he was active for Zob Ahan from Isfahan .

Web links

• archive.fiba.com: Players - Slavko VRANES (MNE) - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments ( English )
• SLAVKO VRANES (blog) - Vraneš's blog on the eurocupbasketball.com website from April 2011 (English)
• VRANES, SLAVKO - player profile on the ULEB website (English)
• Slavko Vranes - player profile on basketball-reference.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} In other sources his height is given as up to 230 cm. The NBA statistics lead him at the age of almost 21 years with 7 feet 5 inches and the equivalent of 226 cm.
2. ^ Slavko Vraneš - NLB League ABA. Adriatic Basketball Association , accessed September 25, 2011 (English, ABA player profile). 
3. ↑ VRANES, SLAVKO: 2010-2011 STATISTICS. ULEB , accessed on September 25, 2011 (English, seasonal statistics).