Slavko Vraneš

Slavko Vraneš ( Serbian Cyrillic Славко Вранеш; born January 30, 1983 in Pljevlja, SFR Yugoslavia ) is a Montenegrin professional basketball player. With its size of 2.26 m, it is currently one of the largest professional basketball player. In his youth and junior, he played for several clubs in his native country and Turkey. In 2003 he was drafted by the NBA club the New York Knicks and had in January 2004, an insert in the NBA for the Portland Trail Blazers. Then he returned to his homeland and played six years in Serbia and Montenegro. In the 2010/11 season he had with whom he won the Eurocup 2010/11 contract with UNICS in Kazan, Russia. In the finals of the European Basketball Championships in Lithuania in 2011, he worked for the Montenegrin national basketball team in action.

Career

Since 1997, Vraneš was in training at KK FMP Železnik in the capital Belgrade. In 2000 he made tryouts in Turkey and has been contracted by Efes Pilsen SK in Istanbul, but not put it in championship games. In January 2001 Vraneš graduated eight games for KK Budućnost from Podgorica in the newly created Adriatic League ( ABA). Then he returned to Turkey and was loaned to the Turkish second division of Antalya. In the season 2002/ 03 he was back for KK Budućnost in use. In the NBA Draft in 2003 it chose the New York Knicks as the 39th player overall from, put him not a the following season, otherwise instead on the Injury List. End of December 2003 was finally dismissed Vraneš from the Treaty and this eventually signed as a free agent a ten-day contract with the Portland Trail Blazers, for whom he barely three minutes into the case of use in the field. Vraneš was thus able to secure an entry in the list of the ten greatest NBA players of all time.

End of January 2004 Vraneš finally signed a contract with KK Crvena zvezda (German: KK Red Star ) in Belgrade an agreement, where he was again employed only in the ABA. In the following season, he returned to the Montenegrin capital Podogorica and played the following three seasons for KK Budućnost, with whom he in the premiere season of the Montenegrin Cup won the domestic double after separation from Serbia. He was then committed by the Serbian series champions KK Partizan Belgrade, with which he in a row won the treble of national league and cup win and championship of the ABA three times. In the highest European League ULEB Euro League would retire twice in the quarter-final play-offs before the 2009/10 discharged in Paris reached the Final Four in the ULEB Euro League, the first time since the ULEB organized the Euro League. In the final tournament itself unhappy they lost both games in extra time and finished fourth.

For the season 2010/11 he moved to Russian club UNICS from Kazan, with whom he was able to place first in the regular season in the Russian PBL. In the semifinal series of the play-offs they failed to BK Khimki and defeated in a series for third place Lokomotiw Kuban from Krasnodar. Even in the purely Eastern European VTB United League 2011 you failed in the semifinals of the Final Four Tournament on subsequent title holders BK Khimki and was third after a victory over the Ukrainian champions BK Asowmasch Mariupol. But one was ultimately victorious in the Eurocup 2010/11 and was able to achieve the greatest international success of the club winning the title. Vraneš itself was no longer used after the second round in the Eurocup. With the Montenegrin national Vraneš took part in the European Championship finals in 2011 in Lithuania, where one by one opening win in extra time to eventual semi-finalists Macedonia lost the remaining four preliminary round games and left early.

In the season 2011/12 he was active for the Iranian club Sanaye Petrochimi from Bandar -e Mahschahr on the Gulf Coast. For the play-offs of the Iranian championship, he joined the defending champions Mahram of the capital Tehran. After he had only been in the 2012/13 season to season end for the Serbian club KK Metalac Valjevo active, he spent the 2013/14 season once again in Iran, where he was active for Zob Ahan from Isfahan.