Predrag Danilović
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 president of his former team KK Partizan Belgrade. Danilović was voted most valuable player of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A 1998.
Career
Danilović began his career in 1987 in his hometown at KK Bosna Sarajevo. At the time, unhappy with his working times he strove for an engagement at KK Partizan from the capital Belgrade. However, his Vorverein prevented this for a year, so he spent the next 7 months of Knoxville College in Tennessee, USA. He then returned back to his home country and made his debut for Partizan in 1989. After only one season, he now also played for the Yugoslav national team, and participated in the European Championships in 1989 in part before the home crowd in Zagreb, with whom he won gold. At the World Cup in Argentina the following year he was unable to participate due to injury.
With the Yugoslav national team won a total of four times Danilović the European Basketball Championships (1989, 1991, 1995 and 1997 ), the " rest" Yugoslav team was excluded from the final round in 1993, and was also a member of the Yugoslavian team that at the Olympic games in Atlanta in 1996 won the silver medal. In 1992 he was one of the most important players of a very young but also very talented team of KK Partizan, which surprisingly the then major European club competition FIBA Europe League won, even though you had to deliver its home games in this competition in Spain as a result of the Yugoslav wars of 22 years. He was then drafted in the NBA Draft 1992, 43 out of the Golden State Warriors (later his rights were passed ), he first played more in Europe and moved to the Italian Serie A for Virtus Bologna, where he successively three championships between 1993 and 1995 won. It was not until early 1996, he then went to the highest remunerated professional league NBA in the United States, first to the Miami Heat and during the following season to the Dallas Mavericks. In his two NBA seasons, he came to an average of 12.8 points per game.
As early as 1997 Danilović returned to Virtus Bologna back and not only won the Italian championship again, but also a second time the FIBA Europe League in 1998. However, after the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, he finished his career as a player. Together with Vlade Divac he was after his active career at Partizan Belgrade Vice President and also in Group Seven, a charity organization of former Serbian professional basketball player who is involved. Since 2007 he has been the sole president of Partizan Belgrade. In 2008 he was honored as one of the fifty major personalities of the sport of basketball in Europe. The ceremony was performed by the Euro League Basketball at an official ceremony at the Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid.
Achievements
- Yugoslavian Champion (1992 ) with Partizan Belgrade.
- Twice Yugoslav Cup winner (1989 and 1992 ) with Partizan Belgrade.
- Four times Italian champion (1993, 1994, 1995 and 1998) with Virtus Bologna.
- Italian Cup Winners' Cup (1999) with Virtus Bologna.
- Twice Euro League champion Partizan Belgrade (1992) and Virtus Bologna ( 1998).
- Korac 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.
- Italian MVP in 1998.