Dalibor Bagarić

Dalibor Bagarić ( born July 2, 1980 in Munich) is a German - Croatian basketball player. The 2.16 m wide center played for the career start in his Croatian homeland for three years in the most highly endowed professional league NBA, but where he could not prevail. After his return to Europe he played in the top domestic leagues from Greece, Italy and Spain, and won the 2005 Italian Championship, 2010 Croatian Championship and FIBA EuroCup 2007. Since 2011 he has been active mainly in his native Croatia and Lebanon.

Career

Born in Munich Bagarić began his career as a basketball player in the Croatian homeland of his family, where he was committed after the first steps for the club from Karlovac of Benston Dubrava from the capital Zagreb for the 1997/98 season. After playing in the 1998/99 season when local rivals and champions KK Cibona, but where he could not prevail, he returned for the 1999/2000 season to Dubrava back. In the " Entry Draft, " 2000, the U.S. professional league NBA, he was selected surprisingly early in the first round to 24th place by the Chicago Bulls. In the following three years, Bagarić tried to enforce in the squad Bulls. His biggest play was Bagarić in the NBA 2001/ 02, in which he was employed in 50 games this season just under 13 minutes per game. After he was employed in the following season, only in ten games, he returned for the 2003/ 04 season, back to Europe after he was eliminated with the Croatian national team at the European Championship finals in 2003 before the quarter-finals. For the 2003/ 04 season Bagarić was taken from Olympiakos Piraeus in the Greek A1 Ethniki under contract. But here were his play rather clearly. Although Olympiacos managed to the highest European club competition ULEB Euro League 2003 /04 still a place in the second group stage of the 16 best teams, but in the Greek championship you only came eighth in the main round in the play-offs for the championship, where they then the first round of the same against defending series champion Panathinaikos Athens and retired.

For the following season moved Bagarić 2004 to Italy to Fortitude from Bologna, the coach played under the sponsor names Climamio under Bagarić ' compatriot Jasmin Repesa in Serie A. In the ULEB Euro League 2004 /05 the team failed after a strong first round only very slightly in the second group stage because of the poorer direct comparison on the way into the quarter-final playoffs. In the play-offs for the national championship then the former vice-champion could defeat Armani Jeans Milano and 2005 would come in second league title for the club. In his second season for Climamio Bagarić was able to increase his play in person, but the team difference in the ULEB Euro League 2005 /06 again in the second group stage and in the Italian championship lost to the final series against Benetton Treviso. In the season 2006/ 07 Bagarić then played for CB Sant Josep Girona, who won under the sponsor names Akasvayu the FIBA EuroCup 2006/ 07 under the direction of the German - Serbian coach Svetislav Pešić. For the following two seasons Bagarić returned to Fortitude Bologna, but not able to build on their previous successes in changing sponsors. In the 2007 /08 season they managed eighth of the main round still a place in the Championship play-offs, in which one but was eliminated in the first round against series champion Montepaschi Siena. In the 2008 /09 season they finished as a table next to last on the relegation zone. After the funds were exhausted, the first team was temporarily disbanded.

For the 2009/10 season Bagarić returned to Zagreb KK Cibona back to who could defend their 2010 championship title in Croatia. In the ULEB Euro Cup 2009/ 10 of the Croatian champions still reached the second group stage of the 16 best teams in which one but in six games could only gain another victory, and in the ABA league, they lost to the year before finals with a point difference against defending champions KK Partizan Belgrade. After he had been at the beginning of the 2010/11 season again at Dubrava Zagreb under contract, Bagarić joined in November 2010 in the Greek league to GS Marousi Athens. However, Marousi retired in the first play-off round for the championship against Aris Thessaloniki. At the beginning of the 2011/12 season Bagarić then had a short -term contract at Blancos de Rueda Valladolid in the Liga ACB, before he again went back to Zagreb and this time played the season for KK Cedevita to an end. The runner-up last year won the Croatian Cup competition and moved both in the ABA league and in the Croatian championship again in the final. While Cedevita defeated at the Final Four tournament in the ABA league in the semi-final defending champions KK Partizan, we lost the final against the visiting club Maccabi Tel Aviv in Israel. In the Croatian championship, they lost the final series against Bagarić ' former club KK Cibona. In the 2012/13 season Bagarić then played in the Lebanese League first for al - Riyadi Beirut and then for the club from Amchit. For the following season 2013/14 he returned to Croatia and plays in the top domestic league championship for the club from Zabok, but which is not represented in international competitions.