Luka Žorić
Luka Zoric ( born November 5, 1984 in Zadar, SR Croatia) is a Croatian professional basketball player. Zoric played early in his career for various clubs, mostly in short intervals in the two top divisions in Croatia, including but just one season in the National Basketball League 2004/ 05 for the German first division BS Energy Braunschweig. From 2008 he played a long time for KK Zagreb with which he was twice Croatian Cup winners and 2011 Croatian champion. After the championship, he moved to the Spanish league ACB CB Unicaja Málaga.
Career
Zoric made first game at senior level from 1999 for the then third division KK Borik Punta Mika from his home town of Zadar. He was taken by the renowned club KK Cibona from the capital Zagreb under contract, but awarded the 17 -year-old Zoric during the season to the second division of Zabok 2001. Subsequently collected Zoric to 2007 further experience in various Croatian first and second division in Karlovac, Zagreb, Dubrovnik and Sibenik. In the season 2004/ 05 Zoric was also active in Braunschweig, but was used by coach Henrik Dettmann only in a game of Erstligamannschaft BS Energy. In March 2005, he then returned to Croatia. He then played at the start of the following season 2005/ 06 in Ljubljana a few games for the Slovenian double winners KK Union Olimpija.
2007 returned to the now almost 23 -year-old Zoric to Cibona Zagreb, the defending champion but missed another national championship in 2008. Zoric, the breakthrough in Cibona was not again succeeded in moving to symmetry his first stay at Cibona again to KK Zabok at the start of the following season. Here he played with over 20 points and nearly 10 rebounds per game great on and was brought back after five league matches in the capital, but this time of Cibonas local rivals and cup winners KK Zagreb. When KK Zagreb he was one of the service providers and managed also the leap into the Croatian national team. In the finals of the World Basketball Championship in 2010 and the Eurobasket 2011 but they finished only rear seats. With KK Zagreb he won the Croatian league and cup double victory after another Cup victory in 2010 in the following year 2011. In the ABA League KK Zagreb missed in 2011 only because of the poorer direct comparison of the entry into the Final Four tournament. Zoric was at six games of the most effective players in the Adriatic League and was named " Most Valuable Player " of the main draws of this league.
According to the Croatian Double 2011 Zoric moved to the higher doped La Liga ACB CB Unicaja Málaga. In the 2011/12 season you missed after the ninth place in the main round of the play-offs only just around the Spanish championship. In the highest European club competition ULEB Euro League, drew both 2012 and 2013 in the second round of the 16 best teams. Zoric could indeed prevail by partial individually strong demand from its renowned colleagues Fran Vázquez and Kosta Perovic as "Starting Center", but Malaga missed ninth of the main round in the ACB league in 2013 again the play-offs at the Spanish Championship. Zoric then moved to the 2013/14 season in the Türkiye Ligi to Fenerbahçe Ülker Basketbol in the Turkish city of Istanbul, where he will play under legendary coach Zeljko Obradovic.