Tadija Dragicevic

Tadija Dragicevic
Player information
birthday	January 28, 1986
place of birth	Čačak, SFR Yugoslavia
size	206 cm
position	Power forward
NBA draft	2008 , 53rd Pick, Utah Jazz
Club information
society	Aris Saloniki
league	Basket League
Clubs as active
2004–2005 KK Red Star Belgrade 2005–2006 KK Mega Ishrana 2006–2010 Red Star Belgrade 2010 Lottomatica Rome 2010–2011 Alba Berlin 2011–2012 Angelico Biella 2012–2013 BK Azovmasch Mariupol 2013 Anadolu Efes SK 2014 Red Star Belgrade 2014–2015 Strasbourg IG 2015–2016 KK Budućnost Podgorica Since 2016 Aris Saloniki 00000 00000 00000 0

Tadija Dragićević ( Serbian - Cyrillic Тадија Драгићевић ; born January 28, 1986 in Čačak , SR Serbia ) is a Serbian basketball player who, in addition to his home country, played in Italy in particular and for one season at the German Bundesliga club Alba Berlin. He then played in Ukraine , Turkey , France and most recently for the Montenegrin series champion KK Budućnost Podgorica.

Career

Dragićević began his career in 2004 at Red Star in Belgrade . In 2008 the Serb was selected in the NBA Draft by the NBA team Utah Jazz after he was named Most Valuable Player in the ABA League . The Jazz did not take him under contract, but exchanged the rights to him four years later in the course of a four-team trade, in which the players Mo Williams and Lamar Odom changed clubs in addition to the players , to the Dallas Mavericks .

In the BBL season 2010/11 Dragićević won the German runner-up with Alba Berlin when they were narrowly defeated by defending champion Brose Baskets after five games in the final series . He then returned to Serie A and signed a contract with Angelico Biella after playing for Virtus Lottomatica Roma at the end of the 2009/10 season. For the following season 2012/13 Dragićević moved to the Ukrainian runner-up Azovmasch in Mariupol . After the renewed runner-up with Mariupol, he got a fixed-term contract with Anadolu Efes from Istanbul at the beginning of the 2013/14 season . After this contract expired, he moved back to Red Star in 2014, with whom he was third in the ABA league, but lost the Serbian championship final series against KK Partizan. For the 2014/15 season, Dragićević finally signed a contract in the French LNB Pro A with SIG Basket from Strasbourg .

Medals & Awards

• 2005 bronze at the U20 European Championship with Serbia and Montenegro
• 2006 Gold at the U20 European Championship with Serbia & Montenegro
• 2008 MVP of the Adria League

Web links

• ABA - Player: Tadija Dragićević - player profile on the websites of the ABA League ( English )
• DRAGICEVIC, TADIJA - player profile on the ULEB website (English)
• Tadija Dragićević - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Clippers acquire Odom as part of four-team-trade. NBA , June 29, 2012, accessed July 19, 2012 (LA Clippers media info). 
2. ↑ Beko BBL - 18112 Tadija DRAGICEVIC. Basketball Bundesliga , accessed on December 27, 2014 (player profile). 
3. ↑ Legabasket: Tadija Dragicevic. Lega Basket Serie A , accessed December 27, 2012 (Italian, player profile). 
4. ↑ ANADOLU EFES signs scoring forward Dragicevic. (No longer available online.) ULEB , October 15, 2013, archived from the original on January 4, 2014 ; accessed on October 15, 2013 . 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.  
5. ↑ CRVENA ZVEZDA TELEKOM BELGRADE brings back Dragicevic. (No longer available online.) ULEB January 4, 2014, archived from the original on January 4, 2014 ; accessed on January 4, 2014 . 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.  
6. ↑ Tadija Dragicevic - Joueurs - Pro A. Ligue Nationale de Basket , accessed on June 1, 2016 (French, player profile).