Mirza Teletović

Mirza Teletović ( born September 17, 1985 in Mostar, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a Bosnian basketball player. From his home, he joined with 19 years in the Belgian league and after two years to become one of the leading European clubs Saski Baskonia from Vitoria- Gasteiz. The Basque club he was Spanish champion twice in 2008 and 2010 and once Spanish Cup winners in 2009, also was reached in the highest European League ULEB Euro League twice the Final Four tournament, as well as between 2006 and 2011 always at least the quarterfinals. Teletović, from his height, build, a player in the position of power forward takes approximately twice as many throw attempts from a distance from behind the three- point line as in basket nearby so that you can characterize him as a tweener.

Club career

2002 moved Teletović than 17 years in the first team of KK Sloboda Dita Tuzla, which each year the finale had reached the championship in the Bosnian part of the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1994 and 2002 and five times victorious were next six national cup victories. In 2004 he moved abroad, playing in Belgium for the above ten times Belgian champion BC Ostende. With the antretenden under the sponsor names Telindus club he won in his second season in 2006, along with, among others, his compatriot Elvir Ovčina and the German national team Denis usurers another championship. He then moved into the play more Spanish ACB league.

The Spanish runner- TAU Ceramica, the former sponsors name of Saski Baskonia, took him for the season 2006/ 07 under contract. In the ULEB Euro Cup 2006/ 07 we marched with only two first round defeats to the semifinals, where they lost to the eventual champions Panathinaikos Athens carrier. In the ULEB Euro League 2007 /08 they lost in the semifinals last year's finalists and eventual champions PBK CSKA Moscow. For this you won the Spanish Championship 2008 against FC Barcelona, ​​against which it was excreted in the preseason in the semifinal series of the championship. Teletović itself Award this season as Most Improved Player, so the player who has increased over the past most evident in his performances, the Spanish championship. In the season 2008/ 09 they lost as the defending champion and First Place in regular time the final series against FC Barcelona, ​​as well as the quarter-final series in the ULEB Euro Cup 2008/ 09, which Barcelona won in port. The semi-final of the Spanish Cup Copa del Rey won you the Catalan club, after winning the title in this competition Teletović was named MVP of the Cup tournament. In the Euro League he had in 21 games with a points average of 13 points per game 121 throw attempts from a distance from behind the three- point line with a good success rate of 42.1%, in litters from the near and middle distance he had 66 attempts that but he graduated with an outstanding success rate of 74.2 %, which represented the best value of the former euro League season and his good casting choice underlined. The success rate from the near and middle distance was almost the same as his free throw percentage.

In the season 2009/10 we went to under the new sponsor names Caja Laboral and difference in the ULEB Euro League 2009/10 as last season in the quarterfinals, this time against CSKA Moscow after in the second round only extremely short compared to the other Russian representatives BK Khimki could argue against which one was tied in a direct comparison. Teletović shone in the last three intermediate -rounds, each with the internal team best value of 25 points. In the Spanish championship, he was first elected on Matchday MVP of the match. At the end of the main round they finished behind FC Barcelona, ​​which again won the Euro League, second place. In the final series of the championship, the two rivals met for the third time in a row and Caja Laboral successive kept in just three games each, the victorious end in itself, including two victories with only one point difference. In the season 2010/11 we already met each other in the semifinal series of the championship, this time the subsequent title holders FC Barcelona could clearly win with at least ten points difference per game in three games. In the ULEB Euro League 2010/11 would retire again in the quarterfinals to eventual finalists Maccabi Tel Aviv.

For the 2012/13 season Teletovic joined the NBA to the Brooklyn Nets. In his first season he came in 53 games for use. Here he was able to achieve 3.5 points and 1.8 rebounds on average. Over the 2013/14 season he was able to increase his points average to 9.1 points at an average of 19 minutes. On January 24, 2014 he scored his Karrierebestwert with 34 points in the home game against the Dallas Mavericks. He met, among others, seven out of eleven attempted three-point throws.

National

Teletović was first provided in the European Championship finals in 2003 as a not quite 18 year old players for the final squad of Bosnian selection of men, but not used in the three group defeats. In the following European Championship finals in 2005 in neighboring Serbia and Montenegro was again after three group defeats early conclusion. Only in 2011 was achieved by increasing the finals starting field to 24 teams again qualified for the European Championship finals 2011 Against the neighbors Montenegro thereby succeeded in their second group match of the first victory of the national team in a European Championship finals at all, the following disastrous 64:92. - loss to Finland at the end meant the elimination in the first round, as well as the other win against Croatia with a personal best of 26 points by Teletović in triple comparison was not high enough for getting ahead.