Milan MaÄvan
Milan Mačvan ( Serbian Cyrillic Милан Мачван; born November 16, 1989 in Vukovar ) is a Serbian professional basketball player. At Euro 2009, the men he reached with the Serbian selection the finals and won the silver medal before it, with the fourth place medal just missed a year at the 2010 World Cup. In December 2010, he moved abroad to Israeli giants Maccabi Tel Aviv, with whom he 2010/11 reached the finals of ULEB Euro League. In NBA Draft 2011, he was drafted in the second round as 54 players in total by the Cleveland Cavaliers. In the 2012/13 season Mačvan plays for Turkish club Galatasaray in Istanbul.
Club career
In youth Mačvan played for the teams of FMP Železnik in Belgrade. Even before his 18th birthday, he was inducted into the senior team in the highest Serbian league. When he was allowed to sign a professional contract with reaching his majority, he moved to a transfer to Premier League rivals KK Hemofarm from Vršac, who was trained by the former Under-19 national team coach Miroslav Nikolić, who won the Mačvan in the summer before the U19 World Cup. A short time later Nikolić was calculated by Vlada Vukoičić, Mačvan Ex - Coach at KK FMP replaced. With KK Hemofarm Mačvan in 2008 each vice in the national league and cup as well as in the Adriatic League.
For his achievements in the 2008 /09 Eurocup season Mačvan was appointed Eurocup Rising Star for best young player this international club competition, as he could reach the final tournament of the best eight teams in Turin with KK Hemofarm, where the semi-final against eventual winners Lietuvos rytas Vilnius retired. The following summer, 2009, he was invited to the Nike Hoop Summit, where he was able to lead the world selection with the team internal bests of 23 points and 14 rebounds for the first victory over the U.S. Selection since 1998, when Dirk Nowitzki led the world team to victory. Despite an early exit in the Eurocup 2009/10 KK Hemofarm was / 11 reported in 2010 by the renewed Serbian Deputy Cup 2010 for the qualification of the ULEB Euro League, where they retired in the second round in the final seconds of the second leg against German representatives Alba Berlin. Mačvan even moved in December 2010 to the Israeli giants Maccabi Tel Aviv, with whom he not only bringing back the national championship and cup winning defended, but also moved into the final of the highest European club competition ULEB Euro League, which at the Final Four tournament in Barcelona vs Panathinaikos Athens lost with 70:78 left.
In summer 2011 Mačvan selected at NBA Draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers. At the beginning of the 2011/12 season he was loaned to KK Partizan Belgrade, with which he in 2012 from the perspective of the club again won the Serbian Double. After 2011/12 was narrowly missed in the first group stage on through to the next round in the ULEB Euro League, one difference in the Adriatic League title holders already in the semifinals, while the competition was won by his former club Maccabi. For the 2012/13 season Mačvan moved to Turkish club Galatasaray in Istanbul.
National
Even as a youth and junior players selection, he played an important role in Serbian national teams, with whom he could be 2007 U19 World Cup, where he was named MVP of the tournament, and U18 - U20 European champions and 2008 European champion. In the summer of 2009, he was then a member of the final squad at the European Championships of Lords, where the Serbs were for a first round victory over world champions Spain this clearly inferior in the final 63:85. In the 2010 World Cup could be in the quarterfinals revenge against the Spaniards, but was then in the semifinals by a buzzer beater host Turkey failed in one point and also lost the bronze medal match against Lithuania. The European Basketball Championship 2011 is eliminated in the quarterfinals to eventual bronze medalist Russia and came after two more defeats in the Placement Round eighth. So you also missed qualifying for the 2012 Olympic Games in London.