Bojan Popović ( sr, Бојан Поповић; born February 13, 1983) is a Serbian former professional
basketball
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player. He also represented the
Serbian national basketball team
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internationally. He is a 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) tall
point guard
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.
Professional career
Popović is a product of the
FMP's youth system. After spending four years as a professional at the club from Belgrade's suburb of Železnik, winning one
Serbian Cup
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From 2006 to 2010, the competition was known as the Lav Cup ...
and
Adriatic League
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trophy, he signed a contract with
Russian PBL team
Dynamo Moscow
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. His good performances led the team to the
Euroleague quarterfinals, where they lost to
Panathinaikos
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, which eventually won the cup.
Next season Bojan signed with
ACB and
Euroleague team
Unicaja Malaga
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and a season later he stayed in Spain, playing for
San Sebastian Bruesa.
In summer 2009, Popović signed with Lithuanian club
Lietuvos rytas
''Lietuvos rytas'' (lit. 'Morning of Lithuania') is a Lithuanian daily newspaper.
History and profile
"Lietuvos rytas" was established in 1990 on a basis of newspaper "Komjaunimo tiesa". The paper is printed in Vilnius
Vilnius ( , ; see also ...
. On November 2, 2009, Popovic won the
Euroleague MVP of the Month
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award for the month of October. Despite his good performances, rytas failed to qualify to the Top 16 and was eliminated from the euroleague for that season. Nonetheless his abilities earned him a contract with
Regular Season Group B rivals
Efes Pilsen, but he failed to accomplish his early year performance at the Top 16.
On 25 August 2010, Popovic signed a one-year contract with
KK Partizan
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. However, Partizan broke the contract only 20 days after signing it, because "he did not fit in the concept of playing". On November 22, 2010 he signed a three-month contract with
Cajasol Sevilla in Spain. In March 2011 he signed with
Meridiano Alicante until the end of the season.
On October 12, 2011 he signed a one-year contract with
Crvena zvezda
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. He finished the year with averages of 7 points and 3.5 assists in the
Adriatic league
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.
In January 2013 he signed with Bulgarian team
PBC Lukoil Academic
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until the end of season. In January 2014, he signed with the Romanian team
CSU Asesoft Ploieşti
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for the rest of the season.
In February 2015, he signed with
Trefl Sopot
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of the
Polish Basketball League
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.
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Serbian national team
Popović has also been a member of the senior men's Serbian national team. He played at the EuroBasket 2009
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, where he won the silver medal.
Euroleague career statistics
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MGO VFSO "Dynamo" (russian: МГО ВФСО «Динамо»), commonly known as Dynamo Moscow (russian: Динамо Москва) is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. Founded by Felix Dzerzhinsky on 18 April 1923, Dynamo Moscow was the first ...
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, -
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, style="text-align:left;", Unicaja Málaga
Unicaja is a Spanish savings bank based in Málaga and chartered as a caja de ahorros providing retail banking services. The banks full name is ''Monte de Piedad y Caja de Ahorros de Ronda, Cádiz, Almería, Málaga y Antequera'' after the n ...
, 20 , , 5 , , 15.4 , , .275 , , .303 , , .863 , , 1.7 , , 1.5 , , .5 , , .0 , , 3.6 , , 3.5
, -
, style="text-align:left;", 2009–10
, style="text-align:left;", Lietuvos rytas
''Lietuvos rytas'' (lit. 'Morning of Lithuania') is a Lithuanian daily newspaper.
History and profile
"Lietuvos rytas" was established in 1990 on a basis of newspaper "Komjaunimo tiesa". The paper is printed in Vilnius
Vilnius ( , ; see also ...
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, style="text-align:left;", Efes Pilsen
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See also
* List of Serbia men's national basketball team players
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Since 2006, the Serbia squad has participated at seven ...
References
External links
Bojan Popović
at abaliga.com
Bojan Popović
at acb.com
Bojan Popović
at eurobasket.com
Bojan Popović
at euroleague.net
at fiba.com
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1983 births
Living people
ABA League players
Anadolu Efes S.K. players
Baloncesto Málaga players
Basketball League of Serbia players
BC Dynamo Moscow players
BC Rytas players
CB Lucentum Alicante players
Real Betis Baloncesto players
CSU Asesoft Ploiești players
Gipuzkoa Basket players
KK Crvena zvezda players
KK FMP (1991–2011) players
Liga ACB players
PBC Academic players
Point guards
Serbia men's national basketball team players
Serbian expatriate basketball people in Bulgaria
Serbian expatriate basketball people in Lithuania
Serbian expatriate basketball people in Poland
Serbian expatriate basketball people in Romania
Serbian expatriate basketball people in Russia
Serbian expatriate basketball people in Spain
Serbian expatriate basketball people in Turkey
Serbian men's basketball players
Trefl Sopot players
2006 FIBA World Championship players
Universiade medalists in basketball
Universiade gold medalists for Serbia and Montenegro
Medalists at the 2003 Summer Universiade