Nedžad Sinanović

Nedžad Sinanović ( born January 29, 1983 in Zavidovići, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a Bosnian basketball player. The over 2.20 m wide Sinanović was selected in the 2003 NBA Draft and then played in Belgium before moving to Real Madrid in 2005. Here, however, he was able to gamble no permanent place in the rotation and was loaned to the Köln 99ers in the 2007/ 08 BBL season. He also played on loan at Spanish second division, which was repeated after a change in 2009 to Unicaja Málaga. Since 2012 Sinanović, which also has Spanish citizenship plays in the first Spanish ACB League for Blancos de Rueda Valladolid.

Career

Sinanović began his career at Čelik from Zenica in his home country. After being selected in the NBA Draft in 2003 by the Portland Trail Blazers, he moved to the first Belgian League for Royal Basket Club from Pepinster, for which he was the following two seasons running. In the first season 2003/ 04 is different from the regular season in second place in the play-off semi-finals of the national championship. In the following season could not place it in the front of the field to itself. 2005 Sinanović was engaged by Real Madrid after he again could not recommend for a contract in the NBA in the summer break. In real terms, it had little play and was unable to play in 2006 in the NBA Summer League in the foreground. Real won the 2007 with Sinanović in the squad, the Spanish Cup and the ULEB Cup in 2006/ 07, while they lost the national cup final in the " Copa del Rey ". However Sinanović itself was mainly active for the second team in the third league LEB -2 this season.

2007 Sinanović was finally awarded to the German first division Köln 99ers, who was trained by the Serbian coach Saša Obradovic and Sinanović ' compatriot Drasko Prodanović. In early March 2008, however Sinanović injured his hand and fell after surgery the rest of the season off. His comeback Sinanović the following season in the Spanish second division Española de Baloncesto the CB Atapuerca from near Burgos. The two years earlier Ascended club was able to first qualify for the play- offs for promotion to the first division, but where one was eliminated in the first round.

2009 saw Sinanović to Unicaja Málaga. But even this club already gave him after a few games early in the season to the second division of the Axarquia. While the trading under Clínicas Rincón club placed in the following two seasons each in the lower third of the table, Sinanović was thanks to the respective highest effectiveness value of all players awarded to three games of the season 2009/10 as MVP of each game round, giving him already in the season 2008/09 was again succeeded in the jersey of Burgos. Also in the season 2010/11 he was once honored as MVP, before he moved in February 2011, again in the squad of Unicaja in the first division. While Málaga had 2011 or just reached the play-offs for the national championship, in which we eliminated in the first round, they missed in the season 2011/12, just a place in the final round. Even in the highest European club competition ULEB Euro League 2011/12 was again for the club in the second round of the 16 best teams terminus, where you among other things, against the national competitors Bizkaia Bilbao Basket and Sinanović ' former club Real Madrid remained without a victory. For next season 2012/13 Sinanović moved to league rivals Malaga Blancos de Rueda Valladolid.