Erazem Lorbek

Erazem Lorbek (born 21 February 1984 in Ljubljana, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Slovenian basketball player. It can be used as a power forward or be used as a center and is since 2009 active for FC Barcelona. His brothers domes and Klemen are also professional basketball players, their common father Radovan is president of the Adriatic Basketball Association.

Lorbek played college basketball for the Michigan State University in the NCAA, before joining Fortitude Bologna 2003. There he was active until 2006 and in 2005 by Italian masters. He also reached the final of the 2004 Fortitude Euro League and was awarded the following season with the first ever Rising Star Trophy. After playing for half a year for Unicaja Málaga, Lorbek 2007 returned back to Italy and signed with Benetton Treviso. By using Lorbeks However, the association exceeded the maximum allowed number of players used each season in Serie A and have been penalized with a deduction of points, which is why Lorbek again after nearly two months of joining the club and went to Lottomatica Roma. The following year, he signed a contract with CSKA Moscow. With this club he became Russian Champion and reached the final of the Euro League 2008/09 season, in which he was also selected to the All Euro League Second Team. After a year Lorbek moved to FC Barcelona. With Barcelona he won the 2010 Euro League and was again nominated for the All Euro League Second Team, 2011, he was with the Catalan club Spanish masters. In the following season Lorbek was elected team for the first time into space euros League First and reached Barcelona the Final Four of the competition. In addition, he again won the Spanish championship and became the Most Valuable Player of the finals series selected.

Since 2005 Lorbek is part of the Slovenian national team and took their part in the European Championships in 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2011. At Euro 2009 he was also elected to the All Tournament Team.