Branko Jorović

Branko Jorović ( Serbian Cyrillic Бранко Јоровић; born November 27, 1981 in Čačak, SR Serbia) is a Serbian professional basketball player. Jorović was a participant in the 2006 World Cup in which he incurred a persistent back injury and after almost two years completed no championship game for Serbia and Montenegro. After working in his home country and Greece Jorović played in the BBL season 2011/12 at the New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig of the German Basketball Bundesliga.

Jorović first played until 2003 with the club Borac his hometown. He subsequently transferred to the Serbian capital Belgrade at that Serb- Montenegrin Cup Winners Železnik who competed from 2003 to 2005 under the name KK sponsors reflex. 2005 Cup win could be repeated, also succeeded in 2004 and 2006, winning the title in the supranational Adriatic League. In the squad defending champion Serbia and Montenegro Jorović participated in the 2006 World Cup in Japan, where he incurred a back injury. This injury prevented the planned change to CB Akasvayu Girona in the Spanish ACB League. There he was to play under Serbian coach Svetislav Pešić together with Marko Marinović, his year and a half younger, was also born in Čačak longtime teammates at Borac, Železnik and the national team at the 2006 World Cup. In January 2007 he moved anyway to Red Star Belgrade, for which he did during the year completed no game before he left the club again in December 2007.

He first wanted to try a comeback in early 2008 at KK Hemofarm Vrsac from, but eventually went to the Greek Patras and initially played six games for Olympiada in the A1 Ethniki, but which descended as a Table at the end of the season again from the highest Greek league. In April 2008 he finally moved but after Vršac, but at KK Lions, who moved a year later than Radnički to Kragujevac. Jorović himself came not to Kragujevac, but joined in November 2009 at his home club Borac, who played now in the top domestic league championship. In the 2010/11 season he returned to the Greek A1 Ethniki and played for EK Kavala, who qualified for the play- offs for the championship. For the 2011/12 season he signed a contract with the New Yorker Phantoms in the German BBL. After a stubborn bruise beginning of the season, had to be treated surgically to Jorović initially was only a little play back up before he was allowed to take more responsibility after injuries to teammates. In the end they reached the German Cup semi-final and in the championship a renewed place in the play -offs. There they remained winless against the eventual runner- ratiopharm ulm and retired.

In the season 2012/13 Jorović went to KK Igokea Alekandrovac from Laktaši in the Republika Srpska, as the representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina also a wild card for the Adriatic league in 2012/13.