Branko Milisavljević

Branko Milisavljević ( born July 21, 1976 in Titovo Užice, SR Serbia) is a Serbian professional basketball player.

Career start in Serbia

The 1.94 m tall point guard began his career in the youth of KK Radnički in Belgrade, where he played among others with Aleksander Nadjfeji together. He also ran for a number of Yugoslav youth national teams. After aground the 1995/96 season in the local first men's team, he joined KK Borac Čačak then for the second Yugoslav league. There he played a total of four years and managed with his team in the 1998/1999 season promotion to the first division. Milisavljević was also voted the MVP of the second division.

In the season 1999/2000 he was then with 25 points per game scorer of the Yugoslav League and was allowed in 2000, also at the Allstar Game derselbigen participate. Reward for his strong performance was the nomination in the 24-member national squad ahead of the Olympic Games, from which he was however removed again before the Games begin.

Career

Before the season 2000/2001 is Milisavljević decided to take the plunge and moved abroad to Russia from Shakhtar Cheremkhovo. In December 2000 he returned, however, after Serbia, where he ran aground for the rest of the season for KK Partizan in Belgrade. He also appeared for the first time at the highest European level in appearance by aground Belgrade in 15 games in the Suproleague and thereby came to an average of 13 points and 4 assists per game, but in the second round failed to ASVEL Villeurbanne out.

The renewed move abroad to Slask Wroclaw in Wroclaw, Poland in the summer of 2001 ended after only a few weeks since Milisavljević was released in September 2001 before the season starts. Then he was more than a year without a club before he was taken in October 2002 by CSP Limoges under contract. Even there, however, he was not happy and moved in the summer of 2003, therefore, initially for one year to PAOK in Thessaloniki to Greece, where he was one with 16 points and 4 assists per game to the best players in the league structure. A year later he moved within the Greek League to Olympiakos.

The associated return to the highest European competition, the ULEB Euro League, however, was extremely disappointing with only 4 points per game. To Milisavljević adopted in December 2003 did to Dynamo Moscow, but remained there only until end of season.

The 2004/05 season played Milisavljević in Germany for the Telekom Baskets Bonn from which he indeed reached the cup final, but also in the club's playoff participation, missed the first time so that the club's option to extend the contract did not move. After working in Israel and Serbia, he changed the course of 2006/07 season for Stade Lorrain Université Club to Nancy, where he also returned to the European stage. In the second- highest European club competition ULEB Cup he came in seven games to 14 points per game at Wurfqouten of over 50% from the field. In the French LNB Pro A League Nancy won, although the main round, but could in the play- offs do not win the championship.

In the summer of 2007 Milisavljević moved within the league the new merger club Paris - Levallois, but returned in December of the same year to Greece Maroussi Costa Coffee back. In the 2008 playoffs he worried there for a stir because he was instrumental with 19 points and 3 assists in ensuring that Marousi in the quarterfinals favorites Aris Thessaloniki from the race threw and also in the semi-final Olympiakos Piraeus caused great problems and only by a missed throw retired at the last second.

Milisavljević then moved to BK Lietuvos Rytas in Vilnius, where he averaged over the internal team scorer in the Eurocup as the ULEB Cup was now called, was 16.4 points. In January 2009, he left the team before they won the Eurocup for the second time in club history, and moved to Spain to Cajasol from Seville. There he came in the Spanish ACB League to nine points and three assists in the cut. At the time of his commitment Seville was with two wins and fourteen defeats on the bottom of the table. Thanks to eight wins from their next 16 games you still reached the league and finished the season starting on the 14th Place.

After half a year without a contract he signed in December 2009 a contract with PAOK Thessaloniki. In 13 games, he came up with an average of eight points per game and finished the season with his team in fifth place in the table. In the summer of 2010, he finally returned to the Serbian League and played two seasons KK Mega Vizura on. In early December 2012, he was again obliged by the Swiss champion Lugano Tigers, who had got off to a smooth start to the season.